Country Info
- Belmopan
- Capital
- Belize Dollar (BZD)
- Currency
- 256,062
- Population
- BZ
- Country Code
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Belize
Travel Blogs from Belize
Rio Dulce
Hola Amigos! All is well. Have started my tour. I have a goupr of 18. Many NZ & UK others Swiss and an Aussie. Everyone great and startig to get to know ecth other well over happy hour. Most of the group is late 20´s to early 30´s so a good ...
Belize
... Belize at 8am and our horseback riding excursion was scheduled to start at 9am. This would have been no problem, except that Belize is surrounded by a huge coral reef and therefor does not even provide a dock for cruise ships. They, understandably, want ...
Caye a fancy way to say Island
Day 20... It is hard to believe it has been nearly three weeks since i left. I don't have anything very interesting to say right now. So i will just put up the pics from the last week i've been meaning to. I'll write more when i feel the ...
PARENTS DON'T READ!
Okay, of course parents are reading this because it says "Parents don't read" in huge letters and if something said, "Katy don't read" the first I would do is read it. What is that about our nature? So here I go, some stories to make the parents loose ...
Coffee Country
So far the coffee in South America has been suprisingly average (Nescafe). So we were excited to be going to the heart of the Zona Cafeteria in the middle of Colombia to see how its really done... Well turns out its pretty basic! The lovely hostel we ...
A night in the slums...
... net saved our night and we actually didn't sleep too bad. Next morning we visited whats supposedly the biggest market in Belize and didn't find much more that overripe bananas. We left San Ignacio without breakfast. The hired taxi brought us to the ...
Night Dive at Hol Chan
Today we arrived on the island of Ambergris Caye. Before our tiny plane set down on the even tinier dirt road, we were treated to a gorgeous aerial view of the reefs in the surrounding area. The water was so incredibly blue and clear, you could see the ...
Belize Barrier Reef and Blue Hole
Left Mexico at 12.30 midnight to catch the bus to the border of Belize to catch another bus finally arrived in Belize City at 9am, after travelling through miles of farmland, then caught the 45 minute speedboat to Caye Caulker Island. The island is a ...
On the Toucan Trail...but off the beaten path
Well we have headed for the Toledo District of Belize which is the most remote and least explored part of the country. There is incredible ethnic diversity in this area, of course the Garifuna, but also Creoles, Kekchi, Maya, ex-pats, Chinese and East ...
Chillin' in the Caribbean....
Well just got off the coach in Belieze city, had a pretty good trip over from Tikkal only took like 5 and a bit hours. Getting on a boat in a bit bound for the island Caye Caulker where we're meeting Allison and Michelle. Everyone speaks English here and ...
A 'buggy' day!
I left Caye caulker behind on an early boat to Belize City and got to the bus terminal to find my bus to Dangriga. The local buses are converted school buses (so the leg room isn't the best.) I found them to be very cheap and efficient. So efficient ...
Die Eingeborenen von Caye Caulker
... Belize ist, dass wir wieder einigermaßen mit den Leuten kommunizieren können. Englisch ist nämlich Amtssprache. Diesbezüglich ist Belize wohl einmalig in Mittelamerika. Die Leute in Belize, zumindest hier auf den Inseln, sind eher der Jamaika Kultur ...
The Beginning...
So after months of planning and saving and getting ourselves excited, we finally touched down in Belize. A little bit tired from our red-eye journey from Los Angeles to Houston to Belize, but ready to hit the ground running for ...
Things I've thought about
... a similar reaction to what is written below. The importance of family: On January 17th my mom and dad safely landed in belize against all odds, the odds being my mother being afraid to fly. I was a little apprehensive for the coming week. Who ...
Goodbye Guatemala, Hello Belize
... English, Taxi prices were officially listed and we didn´t have to worry about haggling for a ride to the Benque bus terminal. Hello Belize!!! 10 Belizean for the taxi to the terminal, 30 to go direct and only 1.50 Belizean to get to San ...
Jungle Chic
... awesome guide alive, drop us off across from Blue Hole National Park for a quick swim. It was the beginning of the rainy season in Belize so the Blue Hole was more like the Blue Green Hole but still a nice place to relax and idle by the hours. All meals ...
Why ATM why you can have ALT?
... a rock under the jungle canopy. It rained and we narrowly felt a single drop. The ALT cave system is the second largest in Belize. The sink hole was created about the time as the Blue Hole at Lighthouse Atoll and it's also where Caves Branch holds ...
Mit Autoreifen im Höhlenfluss
San Ignacio hat im Prinzip eine kleine Gegend, in der sich die Backpackerszene abspielt. Hauptsächlich besteht diese Gegend aus einer Nebenstraße mit ein paar Kneipen, Hostels und Tour Agencies. Man kann die Touranbieter alle abklappern und nach ...
On the road again...
... Caye Caulker was needed...such a beautiful place! But being on the road again was so nice! We started the day long journey to Belize City (where I´m glad we didn´t stay for a night because it´s one of the most sketch and dangerous cities) and then ...
The splendor and squalor of Belize
... back to see more. I just felt so good about that day. Seeing the jungle and caves and enjoying the natural splendors that belize has to offer me. I feel lucky to have been able to experience it all. The next week i was working with CARE Belize ...
Chilled in the Caribbean
... has about 1300 inhabitants and can be walked from one end to the other in about 15 Min's so it's nice and compact. As Belize used to be a British Colony, there is still a little bit of British influence, not least in the money which reflects the ...
Caye Caulker
The day after Tikal and getting up super early we had another early start, leaving Flores at 5 am for a 12 h trip to Caye Caulker. It was so nice to get back to the sea and the Caribbean architecture! But of course first things first-- an ...
Silk Cayes
Second day or scuba. It was pretty awesome. I saw a baracuda, and a puffer fish (a really freakin big one) and a lot of smaller fshes and a crab. It was neat. I really like wall diving--I love heights and its this intense ...
Crystal Paradise
... be at 6:45 AM so that we could beat the inevitable Saturday rush at the Guatemalan border. This seemed very early, but Belize doesn't use daylight savings time and was an hour behind EST, so we were actually up around 6 AM every morning ...
Don't step on the thousand-year-old pots
... Muknal caves. We reached the caves after a hike through the subtropical forest of the Tapir Mountain Reserve jungle in western Belize. Our feet were already wet after several river crossings, and soon the rest of us was soaked too, after plunging into ...
Day trip to the Mayan Temple at Altun Ha
... square miles. Some of the best examples of Mayan art have been recovered from the site and are on display in the Belize musium. The breath taking views and vistas are accessable and steps have been taken to preserve the historical site for future ...
Sailing, Snorkling and Sunbathing on Caye Caulker
... another gmail account links again are..... www.picasaweb.google.com/dangeenator www.picasaweb.google.com/dangeenator2 2nd link has some last day ones...clowning about! wedding which was slightly boring and Tikkal and Belize so far! Enjoy! Dan. ...
Some thoughts from the jungle
Today's entry comes to you in an itemized list form. I can thank friends Rachel Conlon and Dominic Alexander for inspiring me with list-making. Some things I never thought I'd own: 1. a solar lantern 2. a machete 3. a small bucket to urinate ...
Caye Caulker
Caye Caulker was fantastic. It's the smaller and less commercial of the two northern cayes. It has no cars or big hotels and is very reasonably priced. Lesson learnt: This is a great place for snorkeling and diving to see ...