San Ignacio Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Today we have ended the Guatemala portion of our trek and have headed into Belize. We started our morning by boarding a microbus to Melchor de Mencos, the border town of Guatemala and Belize. As always happens to be the case when we ride with the locals of the area, we were very surprised by the amount of people that could fit in this vehicle. A...

Every Monday night, our local pub,
Eva’s has a trivia night which Cornerstone usually attends. This
week was no different and Sam and Erika and I teamed up on team
called “Fat Kids Are Harder to Kidnap”. Each player pays $2 and
the winning team keeps the cash. This week, Eva’s was packed with
all the tr...

After a long day of bumping along what Ndaskoi would have called "free massage roads" in Tanzania, we arrived at Cahal Pech -- Place of Ticks. Yay! It's supposedly the oldest of the Mayan ruins and it's a relatively small site, but that was just about perfect at this point in our day. The complex is in the middle of the town, not well cared for ...

The team left and i am now here all on my lonesome. Travelling alone is both thrilling and lonely, but for the most part, its empowering. I am staying with a friend of Vera's, Margaret, and her son, Cory, on the hill above San Ignacio. Vera got me on the bus and Margaret picked me up. The countryside is beautiful, so lush and green and full of m...

Greetings! And welcome to the (somewhat tardy) 8th entry of this blog. First let me apologise for the sudden, complete and lengthy lack of internet-based contact as of late - the last few weeks have flown by, and I didn't realize it had been so long since last I wrote. But fear not, for I am not dead! On the contrary, I have been living and kick...

If you didn't already know, I'm in Belize for 7 weeks to do my practicum for my program. I'm working with 2 others girls and we're doing Chagas disease research and public education. We're super excited about it. We're getting people to catch the Kissing Bugs aka Chinch Bugs so that we can test them to see if they have the parasite that makes pe...

When I arrived in Belize I was greeted by my mom and her husband. They were happy to see me and we went to Belmopan. I was tired so we just got something to eat and went to her house located on the outskirst of Belmopan. The next morning I got up at 7am and we walked to the roadside to catch the bus. On the way a man my mom knew stopped and gave...

This past week for me has been spent in Belize City. Wednesday and Thursday was the annual Peace Corps volunteer conference where we learned about grant writing and how to bring someone down if they mess with you hahaha (thursday morning was devoted to self defense, where we learned how to avoid confrontation, but also some smooth moves if someo...