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... back to Lamanai. <br><br>Met a lovely English couple on the tour and the owner of our hotel drove us to a restaurant, nice food but the only problem was we were the only customers and it was karaoke night, this was Costa del Sol gone wrong... the Karaoke man never offered anyone to sing, he just keep singing all the cheesiest songs in a really bad Carribean accent, we just had to get up and leave and try and find Guinness somewhere ...

... in a speedy 40 minutes. Pulling into the island you could see the crystal clear blue waters- the first thing I wanted to do was jump straight in. 1 hour later I was swimming in the sea and supping local rum and coke on the beach. The iguana bar served 2 for 1 rum punch so mel, loiza and I made full use of the offer and drunk to our hearts content whilst watching the sunset. The island has a real caribben feel to it- its really chilled out ...

... biggest in the world after the great barrier reef. I plan to go my diving course in Honduras because its about half the cost of doing it in Mexico or Belize, plus I think you can dive with Whale Sharks around the time I´ll be hitting Honduras! (sweet!). Once we got to the stingray part I got pretty nervous. Such ugly looking things, plus they killed Steve Irwin. The guide feeds them and handles them, and they brush past your legs in the water. I litterally ******* myself when one ...

... otherwise since all snorkeling tours leave at 10:30 a.m. from the island. LP recommended we take a cab to the Caye Caulker Water Taxi Association terminal. We negotiated a 6 Belizean rate and caught the 8 a.m. These people have themselves organized. Uniformed porters took our baggage and checked us in, tickets were issued from a ticket counter with security. The boat was large and comfortable and before we knew it, it was time to disembark.<br><br>Our first destination was ...

... hatte ich grad schon schnell den Schiss in den Hosen (zum Glueck nicht woertlich). Aber dann ist es wie normal. Die Haie sind so was von nicht interessiert, dass es schon fast daneben und unhoeflich ist... Dann tauchte ich mit weiss ich wie vielen Stingrays, einem Eagleray und einer Turtle (ueber einen Meter gross). Und die Stingrays sind ja riiiesig. So wie enorme Teppiche im Wasser. Schoen cool... Ansonsten sah ich viele Fische, schoenes Riff und kleine Schildkroetli und so. War toll!

... second day for a 1030-430 snorkeling trip on a sail boat to Ho chan. GREAT! Loved it and had too much rum(included in price ~80 Belize). Spotted Sharks/turtles/lots o' fish. GREAT! again. Leave bright and early in the morning on a 3 day island hopping/snorkling/sailing trip to Placencia(?) w/ same company.

... like an idiot by saying on my response, 'course you don't we share the same queen stupid!' Oooops!! The border crossing went ok, we got the usual rip off of having to pay the police money to exit Mexico which was SO annoying but it made life easier just to do it, and then we were finally over the border and on our way to Belize City. The first thing that struck me about Belize was the people. In other countries crossing the borders has meant that at least ...

... hour inland to an ancient Myan site. Altun Ha was the smallest, but appearantly richest Myan site found in Belize. There were two huge plazas with two pyramids and a few smaller buildings, the tour guide said that they were built and used mainly in the "classic myan period" around 500A.D. It was amazing to see these huge old structures still standing and mostly intact. I'm trying to get to another site in Belize or Cozumel next week. Enjoy the pics.

... species. There are several other types of Howler monkey spread throughout Central and lots of South America. After a look around the museum we went for a walk with a guide to see the family of wild monkeys that live in the area. There are presently six in this locale, although they estimate there are 20,000 monkeys in the whole sanctuary. The six we saw was a family group with dad, his two wives plus one teenager and two ...

... 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 ...