Punta Gorda Resorts All-Inclusive - Reviews and Rates

John and I arrived in Belize on Friday, and spent the day in a combination of relaxing and finishing up errands before we began our week at the clinic. Saturday after breakfast, walking back to our hotel we ran into a few other volunteers from the clinic. So, after watching the Badger game (our guest house had satellite!) we joined them and star...

Today we went to Saint Vicente – which is the furthest away mobile clinic that we go to – down a very long, VERY bumpy road through the mountains, and is right on the boarder with Guatemala. Luckily we still haven't got our bus back and so we were once again in the air conditioned, comfy forward facing seated mini-van (although we st...

Today was our first clinic at Hillside and it was tipping it down with rain all morning meaning that we only had 18 patients (normally it wouldn't be unusual to have 30ish. We felt pretty busy most of the morning, however! They tend to come in family groups so you take a family of 4 into a room and then proceed to spend the next 45 mins taking s...

We arrived at Hillside yesterday evening after a solid day's travelling on a bus. The accommodation here is plush!!! We have a huge central living area with a kitchen and a lot of chair and then large rooms each with two beds in (a huge luxury not to have to share with Anwen… I have a lot of respect for Nick since considering how skinny sh...

Punta Gorda (pop 6,000) is yet another southern Belizean fishing village. Tranquil and quiet, the town is in many ways the mirror image of Corozal to the north, a reciprocol village slanting toward the sea, blown by the Caribbean breeze, forged of monochromatic concrete buildings of green and blue. The town´s greatest appeal is it´s border cross...

Amazing place - beautiful cabins hanging out over the rain forest below!