Mayan Princess Belize San Pedro

... changed our tickets to the next bus. Needless to say we were ready to leave belize. The next bus was only half an hour late. We got to Chetumal and are now waiting for out next bus which should be here in two hours. I am looking forward to getting back on base and doing some diving. I think I need a vacation from my vacation on my vacation. That has to be one of the funniest sentances I have ever written.

... was completely renovated in the summer (like the website says all rooms were), then they've had some very unclean guests since then - parts of it (the bathroom especially) definitely does not look like it has been updated or upgraded in awhile. The dingy, dirty looking tiles are kind of a dead give away. The room really isn't bad otherwise, though. The website also mentions that they've got all new mattresses and are the best sleep on the island or something like ...

... an easy task - we arrived at around 6pm so most of the cheap places had gone. We finally booked ourselves into a fairly basic hotel which cost us around 120USD for 2 nights - eeek! <br><br>We went out to find a cashpoint machine which was also a bit of a challenge - we found several but none would accept our cards. One bank even had a sign outside which amused us 'Owned and managed by Belizians for the benefit of Belizians' - all it needed was an ...

... forming almost one complete silver picture. However, the real highlights came later. At shark-ray alley, we saw nurse sharks (some of them not so innocent looking at over 6 feet!). Our guide told us the worst they could do was give you a really bad hickey, but I wasn´t about to try and touch them anyway. Later we saw manta rays that glided through the water like birds, and also green sea turtles (maybe the highlight of my ...

... to breakdown on its way over. We ended up spending three hours waiting in the sun. Doen't sound half bad, right? Well earlier on, I agreed with you. We spent the time bathing in the sunlight- trying to make up for the shorts and t-shirts tans we have baked into out skin from the week before. But all that time in the sizzling belizian sunlight with no sunscreen can only do one thing- burn. And that it did ...

... our hotel room was pretty nice still and we didn´t have hoards of vacationers drowning out the mellow vibe of this island. We spent our first night hanging out with our friends from Calgary, catching up and comparing notes since we parted ways on Little Corn. On Day 2, we signed up for an all day snorkling tour to the nearby reef that is apparently the second largest on the planet (Great Barrier Reef down under takes top spot ...

... but mostly it was a nice leisurely float. The water was chilly at first, but it was fine. The weirdest part was sardines nipping at our legs at one point. It tickled! Then it started to rain just as we finished up and went to lunch at Amigos. We decided to pass on the offer of going to the Belize Zoo. We were pretty wiped and just wanted to go "home." After an even longer (it seemed) water taxi ride back to San Pedro, we're back at the hotel.

... American family who brought a luggage bag literally as tall as I am, two German girls, an Irish couple, a trio from Norway, and us. Of all of these people, the Irish couple were the only ones I'd want to get trapped on an island with. Our guide and the boat's captain, Rene, and his nephew also seemed like decent fellows. In addition to the American family's bag, ever single other person except me and Sarah had brought a backpack which had to be shoved into the cargo hold at the prow ...

... than mine! And I do not need any sm.rt.ss comments on this. At the end of the dive the diving master is so lucky as to find 2 spotted eagle rays. They are rare and seeing 2 of them, swimming along together is very exceptional. Mr. ray is about our size. And, than, than, Dr T finds a shark. And another one. Mum and dad shark. About 1,2m and 1,5m. we swim with them. I touch mummy shark. Rough skin! When she turns around and we are almost nose to nose, I do ...

... come back to San Pedro. Later on that evening we went to Jaguar's Temple (Bayo is my all time favorite bartender) and then to Fido's (Shaggy is the man). I told the guys that they needed a female bartender, as I hadn't seen one once - in either Guatemala or Belize. They couldn't have agreed more and behind the bar I went. It was a blast. After the bar closed, we all hung out together and talked about nothing in particular. It was perfect.