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Travel Blogs from Placencia
Verschnaufpause
Der Ruhetag, den wir uns in Placencia gönnten, haben wir quasi vorbezogen - denn die anschliessende Reise nach Mexico hat sich in die Länge gezogen. 19h unterwegs, und das meiste davon in verschiedenen Chicken Buses...
Drinking from fresh coconuts in tropical paradise
It is such a hard life I live. Due to immigration bureaucracy, us teachers only have 90 day visas for Honduras, which means we have to leave the CA-4 region (El Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras) every 3 months for 72 hours to renew our visas. Alas, this administrative detail means we were forced to have a 3 day vacation in tropical …
'Unbelizeable'
We had to take the boat back to 'dangerous' Belize City and then take the bus to a place called Dangriga. Once again the ever friendly guy from the bus station that we met the last time ensured that we all got on to the right bus! At this point we were still traveling with the swiss couple we had met up with again in Caye Caulker! The friendly man …
Death Express
... to buy fish by the locals who were very persistent despite being told we didn’t want to take fish on our hour long ferry to Belize… and then even more persistent when we just started ignoring them. By 11am we were on board a small boat with about 20 total passengers (think speed boat you would take out on a lake.. maybe a bit larger). We had no idea what we were getting ourselves into at this ...
Sawyer's SCUBA blog/Chilling in Placencia
... forty feet, too, like the mask remove and replace, an alternate air source ascent, and equalizing your ears as you're going down. After that, I had my first real open water dive. Another thing that's different with diving vs. snorkeling is that when you're diving, there's lots of open water between the reef and the surface, so you can see a bunch of open water fish, like bar jacks, triggerfish and spotted eagle rays. Some of ...