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- Belize Dollar (BZD)
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San Ignacio Slideshow
San Ignacio
Travel Blogs from San Ignacio, Belize
In the Cayo District in the heart of Belize
Today I'm leaving the coast and heading south west to a place called San Ignacio, SI. It is very close to the Guatemalan boarder which is a perfect base for my day trip to the maya site of Tikal. SI is a great hub point for adventure ...
The One With The Mayan Cave
... , a group of us - Sarah & Feargal (Ireland), Jay (Aus) and Evan (Can-Aus depending on mood!) - travelled up to San Ignacio together for various reasons. Ended up rushing off the boat at the Cayes, straight into a water taxi and then straight up ...
The Belizean Pantie Ripper....
... pasta I have ever tasted. The crossing into Belize was slow which lots of stamping us out and in again, and we go to San Ignacio in Belize about 7pm. It was still incredibly hot and humid and it was very tempting to just stay in the air conditioned hotel ...
So....no tubing then?
... where the driver and turtle are waiting. Clifford tells us that the turtle will go live with about 10 others in a pool in San Ignacio. On the road back to civilization, wild parrots flock above us from the orange and grapefruit trees. The low ...
Cayo: Ruins, Caves, and Loud Americans
... . The service was slow as hell, and we got along well. I decided that I would spend one more day in San Ignacio. How could I occupy my time. By going to Xunatunich, a small Mayan ruin to the west of San Ignacio. ...
Almost in the path of Hurricane Dean...
... musings on our current situation, I thought it would help just to lay them down on paper! We are currently in San Ignacio, in Belize, which fortunately is not in the direct path of Hurricane Dean which is expected to become a category 5 storm very ...
Über die Grenze nach Xunantunich
... statt Reggaeton und nervigem Ranchero Reggae-Beat aus dem fetten Soundsystem entgegenschallt. Hier gab's auch endlich wieder mal was vom Grill. BBQ habe ich in den anderen Laendern schwer vermisst! In Belize ist alles eine Spur gemuetlicher als anderswo. ...
Horseriding in the Jungle
... this morning by the horsetrek guy. It took us 2 hours to get to ´greenacres´and our guide was telling us all about Belize, the different communities and the armish people. I had a grey horse called Sky which turned out to be relatively well behaved. We ...
A slight breeze off the Caribbean...
... wreaking havoc in Belize City, thundering down Belize's Western Highway, ruffling the city of Belmopan and passing straight over San Ignacio where we were staying, before crossing the border into Guatemala and moving on. Richard was a category ...
Can you Belize this?
... we went through customs and easily entered into Belize. At the Belizean border we took at taxi to our home for the next 3 days of San Ignacio in the Cayo district. Once over the border it is obvious that you have left one country and entered another. For ...
San Ignacio
... to was one local and one from Poland living in Guatemala city. It was a nice 2.5 hrs long trip. Bumpy, but good. Arriving in San Ignacio I hooked up with a couple looking for a room. I walked with the girl into a hotel, they had cabins for 75 Belize and ...
Actun Tunich Muknal!
Although we will try our hardest, we think that neither words nor pictures can explain our adventure today. Today we headed out to the Achtun Tunich Muknal (or ATM for short) caves. This is a long system of caves, some underwater, that had been used by ...
Belize-San Ignacio
Today I took the first water taxi back to Belize City to catch a bus and go to San Ignacio. The water taxi is about $15BZD each way and it is about 45 minutes. Then I had to walk in the heat to the bus terminal for the 3 hour bus ride to San ...
San Ignacio the mountain town
... the bus. Also there was a guy in handcuffs brought on for part of the ride. You can see everything on Belize bus trips!! But we arrived here in San Ignacio safe and sound at about 1pm. It is quite the bustling little city and we have rooms with balconies ...
Let the Fun Begin!
... part was the beach. We stayed at this beautiful and tranquil "hotel", Crystal Paradise Resort, located about 20 minutes outside San Ignacio in the Cristo Rey area. There were about 10 thatch covered cottages and no televisions so it provided a ...
Launching point
... Belmopan which is the capital. We did not stay there very long as not much going on and expensive. We are currently in San Ignacio which is a huge hub for travellers and there seems like so much to do here. We may stay a little longer ...
Best $60 spent yet
... lived on the other side of some man made invisible line, your life would be entirely different. The trip from Caye Caulker to San Ignacio was nice. Leaving the coast, with Bob Marley tunes still in my head, the country quickly broke out into gentle hills ...
Jungle
I am currently in San Ignacio Belize. This will be a big update because it has been a few days since I updated last. Although I am on holidays I get not a lot of time to sit and write a lot. Jumping back to Caye Caulker- I forgot to mention that at the ...
First couple days
... on a hopefully fulfilling adventure. After trekking through various airports in Minneapolis and Houston with relative ease, I arrived in Belize City. The method of exiting the plane gave testament to the "vacation-like" atmosphere in Belize City (we got ...
Beach to City to Jungle
... catch a bus to San Ignacio but it had JUST left. We were approached by a taxi driver and her husband, looking to go home in San Ignacio and wanting to drive us there for an insane price. We backed out and went into the bus station. She approached us again ...
Ruins and Caves
... up to San Ignacio and found the Parrot Nest Lodge in Bullet Tree Falls which we used as our base for the next 3 nights.While in San Ignacio we visited Cahal Pech - a small Mayan ruin that can be reached by a 15 minute walk uphill from the town. The ...
Monkeys and Mayans
Had a night in Belize city (weird, but not bad) and then zipped along to San Ignacio, via Belize zoo - definitely the best zoo I´ve been too, really jungly and the kissing tapirs were very cute! San Ignacio seemed quiet and dull, until about 9pm, when ...
El Castillo
... what the difference between an express bus and a normal bus is - both seem to stop whenever and wherever). Upon arriving in San Ignacio, Nick and I searched out a good budget hostel near the center of town, got some dinner, then settled down for the ...
Jaguar Paw
... City. As we were driving during the day we passed several bikers practicing for the cross country tour. It starts in Belize City, goes to San Igancio then back to Belize City. There was entire villages of people in the back of pickups following these ...
Playin catch up
... (sp?) at the sancuary and Meldie at Bamboo, but time was up and we're days behind so we decided to move on and headed to San Ignacio. Here we stayed at the Barton Creek out post and had some awesome back of truck country riding to get there we got in late ...
After the Weekend
Day 8 Today is a national holiday in Belize so most stores are closed and Cornerstone is closed for the day. Luckily, Donnarama is on today. (For those of you not tuned in, that's a 90210 marathon featuring the best of Donna Martin) Belize is ...
Nervous...eek!
I am going to be leaving so soon for Belize. 11 weeks is a long time to be out of the country and away from my loved ones. Im getting married in September, but I am separated from my love for so long. I know that this will be such a ...
San Ignacio - Belize
... was there. We stuffed down breakfast befote heading to the pier to wait for the ferry from Caye back to Belize City, so we Could get a bus to San Ignacio, a town near the border with Guatemala. During the ferry ride I sat outsider on the edge of ...
Xibalba take 2
Today we went to Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave which was explored by archaeologists in 1985, 93-95 and then opened for tourists in 98. It is full of Mayan artefacts from rituals and sacrifices which they undertook in 'Xibalba' or the underworld ...
San Ignacio Jungle Adventure
... then got in a taxi to the bus station and just caught the bus before it left, so we had to quickly jump on. The journey to San Ignacio took 2 1/2 hours and it was a rather hot journey. The bus stopped a couple of times to let people come on with food and ...