Hotel Casa Blanca Chetumal

... youth population, poor cultural interest... obviously not a tourist destination.
Yet I stayed a whole day, because the next bus to palenque was around 11pm.
I thought of going on a day trip to Belize City, I had time, but this would requiert 10h of bus in 1day and withdraw Belizean dollars just for 1 day (my bank is not happy with the "small amount" of pesos I withdraw for 20 days in mexico, so ...

... at theappointed time and we were off. A fairly uneventful 6 hour bus journey later with only two 5 minute stops. One in Felipe Carrillo Puerto and one in Playa, we were in Cancun. The story continues.

... out some great places to go in Guatemala.   We were surprised by the coziness of the bathrooms ...see picture. After lunch, we had a long drive across the long flat plains and passed by a Pemex where we did not see the Frenchies filling up, but we later wished we had stopped - it was about a hundred miles later and we had not seen another gas station again - and the Buell was the first to stop running.  Meric understood and ...

Wellcabanasinally here. I am leaving Mexico tomorrow morning and heading into Belize. It is a big step for me in many ways. As I have said in the past, being in Mexico is like pushing the easy button--long visas, no change in currency as I move about, excellent and cheap bus transportation, beautiful country, great beaches......Moving from one country to another with the same frequency that I have been moving from town to town here will be ...

Caught a late ADO bus from Cancun to the border station Chetumal..got there way to early for speaking Spanish..plus i had no money..I waited it out till the banks opened and they put me on a cheap bus that crosses the border and took me to corazol in Belize..hands down the easiest border ever..I just walked right in..and the bus driver waited for me..and let me off right in my town...got to find the dock and head to Ambergris Caye.

... universe. I couldn't take my camera down as it only lasted up to 30m so I've included some images of what it's like down there, 40m below the water surface. Basically, the Blue Hole was created by a cave that collapsed over 12 thousand years ago. It reaches over 400 ft deep and spans 1000 ft across, creating a fantastic place for explorers and divers to experience. We only had 8 mins down at 40m before we had to ascend slowly, in the distance I saw a ...

... sunrise and took our time eating breakfast; before we knew it, it was 10:00am. No time like the present to get more updates on the travel journal, so off to the internet café we went. We were quickly becoming regulars and the owners greeted us with a cheerful hello. Believe it or not we spent another seven hours at the café. By the time we got home it was 5:30pm, which meant the mayflies would be coming out within the hour. We sat ...

... in it and keep the ATM card for it in a separate spot. So I was able to get cash and still function, so I felt pretty good to have that going for me. I would highly recommend anyone that is traveling for awhile to do that, it totally saved me a lot of extra hassle and gave me a bit more freedom. By the way, Belize City is not a nice city, its a dump and its actually quite dangerous. This is what we all thought of even before I got robbed, after I got ...

Since we went so long between the last updates, we figured that we'd give you all a bonus entry. Plus, have a lot to say as we've been quite busy working, traveling and...well, take a look: AMY'S UPDATE I'm continuing on my quest for funding for both the reading project and YWCA. "Tings haad" is what I'm hearing all around, but I have managed to make some headway. Over at UB (that's Belizean shorthand for University of Belize, where my reading project is based), I've found ...

... bath. So it worked. I wasn't going to just head off to find somewhere else at this moment. And it was raining, so I needed shelter. When I got to my room, I was glad that it was at least looking secure. But I worried that they'd put another person in my room. There were two beds and they already ran out of A/C rooms, so who knows what they'd do. I had just gotten off a bus that I wasn't supposed to have been on and I had not ...