Mirador Hotel Corozal Town

This day begins in Mexico So, we woke up to pretty much the same view as we had gone to sleep at. As soon as they opened Juan went to the brokers(someone had to stay with the girls at all times and his Spanish is better) Long story short, I was down to $60 and the broker told him it would be around 3000 pesos to get the girls across the bridge.(Like, 300 feet?) I had called a friend who lives in Chetumal the night before and her really ...

... alternative of moving around the Carribean laguna. An interesting facts is the ferries are hand operated (father with a son rotating a handle). <br><br>When leaving the Mayan ruins we asked the local guide for an advise on the local lodging options. After some thoughts he explained us with a note of confidence that we might stay in bungalows at Orchid Bay and the price would be 40 american dollars. Sounded really good, so we drove to the ...

... my arms as the canoe journey back to the hotel. Half way back, I realised that it wasn't only my fitness that was causing me a problem. It was also my weight. The canoe was sinking. I called out to Tom, who's superior fitness had pwered him 500 yards ahead, for help. He was very good. He did a U-turn immediately. Unfortunately, he was a little too immediate. He capsized. Thios prompeted a scene that could have come from a carry ...

... what passes for the best restaurant in Orange Walk, beware Nahil Mayab (or just go for cocktails). Now we have never been up late here (remember the dawn dogs & chickens) so passed up a chance to go to a local charity disco. Purpose of visit was the river trip to the Lamanai ruins & well worth it too. 2 hours down river with iguanas, monkeys (fed by hand) birds & a croc or 2. A good ruins site - more towers above the canopy. Our ...

... email etc. In the afternoon we rented a canoe and went up river to try our hand at fishing, unfortuneately we didnt catch anything but it was very peaceful being on the river in the late afternoon. It would be easy staying he longer but we both had to move on We headed to Belize City the next day and said our goodbyes. I caught a boat to Caye Caulker, an island 20 miles north of Belize City. I was coming here to meet some friends from Germany i had met in Antigua and to dive The Blue Hole

... even on holidays. Instead, we found an grand continental breakfast where they fed us for free. I had French toast with sweetened condensed milk, which I'd never tried before. We stopped to talk to the hostess both on the way in and on the way out, and there was never any indication of wanting payment, so evidently even with our enormous backpacks, we resembled the guests in their bathing suits and sarongs closely enough to pass. Which is rather a ...

Said good-bye to the sunrise at the Carribbean and waited on the beach road for 5 minutes until the scuba boys picked us up on their way to town for a breakfast burrito. Bussed out 5 hours to Chetumal, the Mexican border town and caught a first class bus to Orange Walk, Belize a couple of hours later. A stray dog took a liking to Nadine and monkey. We spent our last pesos on a mango carved into a flower and the bus stopped so we could ...

... pool and 20bz(10 usd a night) and decided to check out Lucia's Guest House. After walking about a km down the road we reached the place and took a room. The picture on the boardwalk must have been a few years old, as the pool looked more like a pond, fish and all. But like all bad things, there are the good. The room had about 100 channels of American TV. It more than made up for the bug filled bathroom and lack of screened windows. Today ...

... Walking around corozal wasn't so much fun I couldn't find anywhere cheap and having already met the very persuasive owner of Nestors hostel (now called Las Palmas I believe) I returned there for the night after one last stubborn march around the block. I do recommend the place for a short visit its expensive but really nice and safe plus the owner and his family are absolutely lovely, he even gave me his card in case I ran into trouble travelling alone (and that was while he ...