Cayo Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

I guess you can tell that we made it to Palenque and beyond. Sometimes, it's so hard to find time to write. We end up doing so much in a day with the busses, heat and always being alert so people wont take our things, it makes us so tired. Enough to say "I'll write tomorrow" almost everyday!
So when we arrived at Palenque, we started to wa...

Sunday am, onwards to ATM! Annette,
Talia and I headed down to Maya Walk to meet our guide and the other
travellers at 8 am. After a long wait (oh ya... they’re on Belize
time), 14 of us got in a bus and set off towards the Mayan Cave. The
trek was extremely bumpy and dusty with the 3 of us in the back row.
Finally we re...

We are now just short of the border with Guatemala and we have stayed in San Ignacio for one night and again no value for money. Its not easy for budget travellers to stay in Belize. Its a pity because I'm sure Belize has a lot to offer and maybe we haven't given it enough time but our pockets don't allow that! Anyway we've heard good things abo...

we arrived at an early 10am to San Ignacio and looked for a decent place to eat breakfast. we settled on an Indian restaurant called Hannah's, great breakfast. then we found an Internet cafe. after writing a few blogs we were behind on , we left our backpacks at the Internet cafe and took a hike to some Mayan ruins right outside of town - Cahal ...

Belize is still hot, not sure if I mentioned that before (Ha! Ha!) but we are all learning to cope. There is a lot to do in and around San Ignacio. Xanantunich are Mayan ruins just before the Guatemalan border. They are located on top of a hill with a beautiful view of the valley and Guatemala. The local bus dropped us at the bottom of the hill ...

I went to bed early the previous night so that I could get up early and see as many birds as possible on the Crystal Paradise grounds. There were many more species out on the grounds, but it was very hazy and it was tough to make out their colors to identify them. I walked to the birding platform and tried taking some pictures, but had very lim...

After our night´s stay at the lovely Posada Ixchel in the village of El Remate, we caught our shuttle again to take us over the border, and into Belize. The minivan was so late (1 hour and 20 minutes), that even the guesthouse owner thought it had forgotten about us. We reached the border just as a huge torrential downpour started. We all had to...

Today we headed off to Jaguar Paw with Omar from Mystic Maya Tours and a couple of his buddies. One of the boys - Floyd was in training to be a tour guide and had worked in just about every industry possible in Belize. We took his truck up to Jaguar Paw, grabbed some tubes and life jackets and hiked up a way to where we got into the river. Right...

Wow!! Our trip to San Miguel was an eye opener! It is amazing the difference in culture even just between there and Placencia!! And it certainly was rustic. The bus trip down was as i expected....a little scary especially when a man with dreds got on and went to sit in the back of the bus next to us but then noticed us and said in disgust that h...

We left Merida on an overnight bus to Chetumal, on the Mexico/Belize border. Arriving at 5am we were dismayed to see that the next bus in to Belize wasn't until 10:45am. Bugger. It was time for action. So we sat in the bus station pondering and exchanging unreliable information with some other travelers, for about half an hour. As is usual in th...