The Trek Stop Cayo

Ooh-er. This is just a quickie (read the next one for a description of the place we stayed in) but I feel this should be added. Spent the afternoon river tubing.

What an interesting way to spend my 21st!! To start, I´ll have to explain the place we were staying to get a real feeling.... from paradise island to.. well.. eco-friendly "budget accom" (as it managed to call itself). Wee little cabins - quite cute actually though. But not so much space! And.. well.. out of the city and in with the trees so lots of lovely mozzies and whatnot to pester us! (Discovered an immense fear of flying bugs in one fellow traveller. Fine with bugs on the ground, but no...

Got up really early today so we could get the boat for 8.30am. We then got in a taxi to the bus station and just caught the bus before it left, so we had to quickly jump on. The journey to San Ignacio took 2 1/2 hours and it was a rather hot journey. The bus stopped a couple of times to let people come on with food and a lady came on the bus and sang in order to sell her burgers - it was rather amusing! We arrived at the trek stop at about 4pm. It is on the outskirts of the jungle and there a...

We got picked up at 8.30am this morning by the horsetrek guy. It took us 2 hours to get to ´greenacres´and our guide was telling us all about Belize, the different communities and the armish people. I had a grey horse called Sky which turned out to be relatively well behaved. We rode through the jungle, through orange groves and across rivers, it was really good fun although my bum hurt so much at the end! We got back to our jungle lodge at about 4 and I was so glad to have a shower and get r...

It´s september 4th already. As usual we´ve been really busy doing a lot of activities which left me little energy left to go and update...but now the tour has ended I can slow down a little bit on the activities and write a bit! So in short on August 28th we crossed the border into Belize. Crossing the border went without problems. We went to San Ignacio...which is just a couple of kilometres from the border and stayed at a place called Trek Stop. The place was really cool. It´s a bit away fr...

How do you take four hours to go 60 miles? Take the local bus. It is a good way to see the country, get to know the locals and listen to your iPod but it does take a while. We stayed at the Trek Stop, a collection of rustic cabins and campsites in a tropical garden. It was delightful. It is run by Belizean and American partners. The Americans have the smallest share in the place but live there and run it. They are retired hippie biologists and he sounds just like Jimmy Stewart which is very c...