Country Info
- Belmopan
- Capital
- Belize Dollar (BZD)
- Currency
- 256,062
- Population
- BZ
- Country Code
Belize Slideshow
Belize
Travel Blogs from Belize
It's been raining cats and dogs!
... out of our hotel. It has been raining cats and dogs! We are waiting for our 1p.m. water taxi to take us back to Belize City. We fly into Costa Rica via El Salvador this evening. We are currently hanging out at an internet cafe as it has been raining a ...
Unwinding after training
I flew into Belize City and then took a water taxi out to Caye Caulker. This is the most laid back place you could ever hope for. The only motorized vehicle I saw on the island the whole week was the beer delivery pickup truck. I hung out with ...
Das untergetauchte Krokodil
Erstes Land erledigt! Morgens um Fuenf sind wir mit dem Bus losgeduest richtung Belize City. Direkt am sogenannten Highway (gerademalso geteerte Strasse ohne Markierung oder so...) lag unser erstes Ziel: Der Belize Zoo. Leider mussten wir dafuer zuerst ...
The Cayes
... continues on Caye Ambergris, where I landed a couple of days ago. Caye Ambergris is one of the most heavily touristed parts of Belize, plus they speak English here, so it doesn't really feel very foreign, but there is great snorkling, wildlife, and the ...
Lamanai - Mayan Ruins in Belize
Jeste 21. prosince odpoledne jsem se rozhodl, ze vyrazim smerem do Belize, i kdyz spoustu lidi rikalo, ze je to velmi draha zeme, ktera nenabizi nic, co by meli jine zeme. Nakonec jsem ale zjistil, ze tomu tak uplne neni. Co bylo pravda, ze to neni uplne ...
Border town
Nothing much to report here. I arrived at around 8pm and was directed down a dark alley. Not the best of ideas but it was a short alley so we risked it. The town was dead. And all of the shops and hotels were locked up behind ...
Party in the Park
Today is the second day of the Belize Belikin Fest, this is part of the September celebrations and is basically a four day Friday to Monday Party in the Park. Live bands and DJ's playing a hypnotic mix of R&B, Reggae Punta Rock and other Latin ...
Oops, forgot one thing...
Oops...forgot the most important part of the last email: While walking through my village with the chairman's wife, it began to get dark. She said, "let's get home before it gets dark, the fer-de-lances come out ...
Views Around Belize City
... it is also the most prone to disaster as it only just lies above sea level, frequent flooding is a common sight around the city. Belize City is also the port of entry for all tourist who usually only spend one night here on arrival or when leaving the ...
Belize
... were illegal in that country. We had to pay a fine of $50 in order to leave the country - but then we entered Belize without any problem - got stamps for our bikes in the passports and headed towards Belize City on the Northern Highway. We stopped ...
. . . so about that rash
... conditioned van to Belize city instead of the overcrowded non-ACed bus with everyone else. Once we got to PC headquarters in belize city I really wasn't feeling well, was having a little bit of trouble breathing and was really shaky. Jackie, the PCMO ...
Christmas and New years
... kind of things the mayan people did to show their appreciation to the gods thousands of years ago. Very cool. 2. Christmas dinner belize style. I decided early on that cooking dinner for eight or nine or ten people in my kitchen would not be fun and ...
Placencia
We were especially sad to have spent a night in Dangriga when we got to Placencia and found it to be so lovely. We happened to get there for Independence Day (it seems to be a bit of a theme for our travels). This one involved a beauty ...
Ambourgis Cay
... and off roading in a hired golf-cart, before back to the mainland and farewell to the girls. Paul and I continued south to Belize City, which we discovered to be remarkably shit, and so therefore continued onto the Guatemalian border, a town called San ...
The forecast today is hurricane
... up this morning in the city of Orange Walk in Belize we looked at the updated Hurricane forecast and saw the whole of Belize had been place on a hurricane warning. Right now the hurricane is predicted to hit land 25 miles north of Chetumal in ...
Belize Please.
... to Belize city and everyone is so friendly! And they all speak english! It's like Paradise! And the scenery was amazing, so beautiful. Belize City was kind of a hole, but it was only for one night. Up the next morning to catch the water taxi to San Pedro ...
Fat Port Town, Punta Gorda
... the afternoon, so we got the boat to the port closer to the border crossing into Honduras... and having been charged a fortune to leave Belize (which the book said you didnt have to pay if you left by boat...!), we jumped on our little motor boat (the ...
Thanksgiving, ticks, and ants
... holidays with the seasons, it's difficult to get into the "holiday spirit." Luckily though, all the volunteers met in Belize City for a conference and Thanksgiving celebration at the Country Director's house. Since I couldn't be with family, certainly ...
Horseback Riding
... speech as well, but hers was on the importance of not littering. She discussed how littering was completely accepted in Belize and how that needs to change to protect the local environment and to keep it beautiful for everybody. Considering ...
Island madness!
... is to get cabs between evening venues which is fine if your wealthy and know where you're going. So anyway a night in Belize City wasn't something I was looking forward to especially since it was a Saturday night. However the chicken bus I had crossed ...
Training overview
... a lot of natural beauty in Belize! ~The one night homestay with a family in San Antonio, Cayo. Their chickens (every family in Belize owns a few chickens that just roam around) were free to hang out in their kitchen. When one of the chickens decided ...
Belize, country 3 and the strangest yet
... a new born baby wrapped up in a blanket, so we shared the cab with them all back to san Ignacio, and all for $5 belize = £1.60. San Ignatio is a bit dead on a Sunday , fortunately the south Indian restaurant was open and we had another wonderful lunch ...
Dangriga Detour
... enough time to make it to Caye Caulker tonight but at least we could head out first thing in the morning on a local bus to Belize City. We were introduced to Val's Backpacker Hostel by some people in the boat. Val is a very nice lady who did our laundry ...
The sailing is over... but only for now
... mais d'ici là, on attend les Poot pour une langouste sur la péniche en 2007 ! ___________________________________________________________________ In Belize, the word laid back takes a new dimension. Even the chilled hippies from San Pedro de ...
adventures in Chicken bus land
Chicken buses So from belize city we decided to take a chicken bus. If your wondering what the heck a chicken bus is Its a old North american school bus that has been refurbished and is used in central america for a cheap means of transportation. So ...
Caye Caulker - Unsere Suche nach dem Paradies
... Regionen wo nicht Tausende und Abertausende deutscher Touristen hinfahren wie in der Dominikanischen Republik. Daher haben wir uns Belize ausgesucht, das liegt irgendwie auf unseren Weg und kaum einer kennt es. Aber wie siehts nun aus im ...
you better belize it!
belize is wonderful. i think i might live here in the near future. a few days ago i was in caye cauker(sp?) ... i forget how to spell it. it was amazinggggggg. the best part was probably swimming with sharks. i met a bunch of locals and played darts with ...
Night at Crystal Paradise
... . The meat fell off the bones and had a great flavor. I decided to have as much chicken as I could while in Belize. After dinner, Erinn decided to try the Belizean rum with the fruit juice mixer at the honor bar and I decided to try a ...
Arrival
... Elsa missing her flight, but she managed to get right on the next one and still catch her connection. So we were all in Belize city by about 3 pm, and then we drove down here to placencia village in placencia. we had a bit of a mishap with ...