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Belize - Belize City
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We took a chicken bus and after a 3 hour pleasant journey, we arrived in Belize City. It looked like a horrendous place to arrive as nightfall. When I got off the bus we were told not to let anyone near our bags as it was very likely they had knifes and would do anything to get the bags (he even did dagger stabbing movements with his hand to emphasise his point)! Imagine my distress when I rounded the bus to find a guy trying to help Craig off with the bags. ...
Arrival in Belize City
Taxi from Philip S.W. Goldson International Airport (BZE) to Crescent Moon Apartments in Belize City
Cost: $50 BZD ($25 USD)
Travel Time: 20 min
Distance: 12 km
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Three flights and a nose
... from my face and had taken one step forward to get another angle of the hotel which would include the pedicabs -- but there was no level street below my foot!! In retrospect, I saw that there was one three-inch step (the only one on the cobble-stoned sidewalk) but I didn’t see it when I made the step -- so I fell to the sidewalk cum street, glasses flying, camera skittering, and no arms extended up to protect myself; it happened so fast. To make a ...
Bad backpackers, buses, boats and Belize
... hostel "Che". It wasn't too bad except for the fact that our private room opened up into a dorm room ...
Belize and a Little Formality - Dec. 8. Part 1
... quo in order to not pay too high a wage to workers.
The Great Depression caused the fall of the timber market. Then in 1931, a hurricane devastated Belize. Because of all of this turmoil, the people of Belize started a revolution for independence. It took until 1964 for Belize to be declared as self-governing, and in 1973 the name Belize became the official name. As the Mahogany tree takes approximately 80 - 100 years to mature, it is now a protected tree, trying to ...