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Dann gings weiter auf die Insel Caye Caulker. Also da kann ich einfach echt nur sagen: Paradies pur! Ich weiss nicht, ob ich schon mal so hammer krasses unglaublich schoenes und klares Wasser in meinem Leben gesehen habe. Falls ja hat es mich trotzdem erneut umgehauen! Das Doofe hier ist aber, dass es nicht so wirklich Plaetze gibt, wo man sich sonnen und baden kann. Nur so an einem Stueckchen ist es wirklich gut. Aber egal, das nimmt man dafuer schon in Kauf...;) Und Hauptziel hier ist ...

... de gentils (!) petits requins de 3m de longueur. Nous avons profite de cet endroit paradisiaque pour faire un cours de plongee et explorer plusieurs recifs. Sandra a passe son PADI et Max son Advanced PADI. Nous en avons eu pleins les yeux avec nos 20 plongees! La vie sous la mer est vraiment magnifique et merite un detour! Le summum etait de nager avec les "Reef ...

... up to its name turtles and rays and bears( ok no bears just checking to see if you were still with me. This was a great day on the water, we are going on a three day cruise down the coast it was the easieat way to get to the ferry to get to honduras to get to yet another island. I like caye caulker tthey have a 2-3 person hippie limit. I will get back to you in a couple of days.

... bus is nowhere to be seen. We hear through the grapevine that the Belizean customs won't let our bus come over the border because the bus driver doesn't have all the proper papers. This is not the first time that they have done this trip so we are pretty sure that the bus driver has all his affairs in order. We come to find out a few days later that the Belize government is trying to get a ban or something on letting foreign busses enter the country. Long story short ...

... min boat ride to the island. There was a couple there with a cute little baby that had been on our last 2 flights. Made friends. They live in Denver.( Lindsay and Ashley, you have a dinner invitation from them :-). Any way it was getting dark as we arrived so we got our room grabbed some dinner and crashed. The next morning we got locked out of our safe and we met our Neighbors, Doug and Coleen. They told us the combo and tried to get it open ...

... by Hurricane Hattie that ripped through the Caribbean in 1961 (causing catastrophic damages at the time, but now providing the best swimming spot on the island) and collection of groceries for dinner (we found an excellent shop 'Of Sea & Land' that had bags of frozen fish, chicken & lobster in single serve sizes). Although great food is readily available all over the island, Belize is definitely a place where for the long term traveller, cheap living ...

... on the incredibly rich coral reefs around Caye Caulker. Hol Chan was another recommendable dive where we were diving between nurse sharks and huge moray eels. This is really a paradise for divers with incredible visibility and perfect water temperates. 3 days of diving was enough for me to really get a good feel for the area. It was time to move on so i headed south to Punta Gorda and then to Livingston back in Guatemala.

... manger mais j etais pas pret a leur donner, en tout cas pas un bout de moi. Pas de quoi s'inquieter, ils sont innofensifs. Ensuite plusieurs autres tout au long de la plongee avec des gros Merous et Snappers, des araignees de mer enormes (1 seule pensee, les attrapper pour les manger), langoustes et plein d'autres choses et surtout un recif en bien meilleure forme qu'a Akumal. Comme quoi quand c'est bien protege, surtout de la peche, eh bien ca marche.

This morning we drove to Bermudan Landing and the area of the Baboon sanctuary. This is really an area for Howler Monkeys, but in Creole they are called Baboons. There is a small museum on the site which tells us all about the rainforest as well as the problems for both the forest itself and all the animals that inhabit it. Apparently the Black Howler monkeys are found only in this area of Central America and are an ...

... excavating, removing actual sections of the temple would reveal different structures and architectural designs underneath. This can be seen most clearly in the Temple of the Mask, where one of the original masks was excavated, but the matching masks on the other side and the levels above were not excavated, to protect them for future research. The masks were found to be where expected by archaelogists, but then they were covered back up. Wilfredo was also very excited about Stela 9 ...