Carribean Beach Hotel

... feel you were in the Carribean – bright colours, dusty roads with little shacks at he sides selling cold drinks and Carribean women selling fruit from big baskets carried on top of their heads.  Cartagena itself is stunning- an old Colonial ...

... one major highway in Belize, so it was pretty easy to get where we were going.  We were already liking the easy going carribean atmosphere.  We got into Belize City (a tad bit dirty for my tastes) at about 4:45.  I thought the last shuttle ...

... all the Colombian women screamed for their dear lives in between howls of laughter.  I just wanted off the boat.  After the boat trip in the jungle and now here in the Carribean, I hope we are not on a boat anywhere in the foreseeable future. ...

... air. The craziest stunts were performed by young Dominicans boys. They were so good, and made it look so effortless! The beach is completely overtaken by kitesurfers. We'd see very few people wading around or swimming in the water, but it actually ...

... ; It was obvious I had chosen well.    All in all, Ngapoli was a ten.  The beach itself rivalled those of the Carribean in beauty and utility.  Factor in the warmth of the local population, the fascination of an ancient ...

... and clean. Finally we were getting closer to what I was expecting from the Columbian coast. All the illuminated Christmas scenes on the beach in Santa Marta seemed a little odd. I was finding it hard to adjust to Christmas by the beach in 30 degree heat. ...

... only the police allowed on the streets. That didn't sound a good place to be, so we decided to cut our losses and leave. 4 buses and 1 ferry later we arrived back in Quito, an overnight stay and then continued up to Colombia. Roll on the ...

... dinner in a restaurant made from a converted bomber plane,  before we decided the pacific coast sucked and returned to the carribean sea! P.S if these blogs seem short its because where normally one long entry would do, there is no way on here to ...

... to Bocas Town by water taxi early. More on street blockades later on the trip! Bocas Town is on the Island Colon and has a Carribean touch to it. I had planned to stay five days, in the end I stayed a bit longer. I visited several islands during my stay, ...

... creep up, pushing my earlier confidence to the side, and underlining my foolhardiness. Puerto Viejo was a small dusty Carribean town with bamboo "storefronts" along the road selling every kind of Rasta trinket, shell necklace, pipe, tropical fruit, ...

... went out to the town´s seemingly only spot, the Cocos Bar.  Since it was Monday, there was live music, playing some Carribean and reggae tunes. The people watching was interesting. We saw this striking Tico rasta guy who was covered in tattoos - he ...

The Carribean waters of Cancun's Hotel Zone!   Our plans for the next few days were vague at this point, first we had decided to head down the coast to a place called Playa del Carmen as the expense of Cancun was eating the budget and neither of us ...

... town called Tela which is a Garifuna settlement, the Garifuna are descendants of African people who were originally brought to the Carribean as slaves. After an uprising on the British island of St Vincents, the Brits abandoned 3000 people on the island ...

... Tribulation feel about it. Thankfully, arriving hot and exhausted we were not disappointed with the beach. The water was beautiful Carribean blue and the beach was quite empty. The snorkelling on the other hand was a let down but did make us happy we had ...

... Palma in the Rosario Islands 2 hours by boat from Cartagena. It was kind of like a luxury Butlins in the Carribean, with nightly "shows", dancing contests, beach sports and Dolphin shows. It was all a bit too much for us and all we wanted was to lie on ...

... set off early for the 3 hour bus ride to  Cahuita on the Caribbean coast. Cahuita is a  laid back beach resort town with a Rasta Carribean influence.  The climate is much drier and hotter than San Jose so.its a perfect place to retreat to ...

... , then it's a 45 minute walk along a muddy, horse-churned track, winding through rainforest to the beach. It's dirty, which matches my general impression of Carribean beaches. Dirty in that there are plastic bottles and cans, and rubbish floating in the ...

The Carribean sun and sand was warm welcome for our whitened, mostly European, winter-accustomed bodies. We arrived after a long flight from Paris in St. Maarten, one of many tropical destinations in this paradise of clustered islands. Having a four hour ...

... the Carribean to the Andes. I met up with Carina (who I first me in Indonesia) in the old town of Cartagena on the Carribean coast. Cartagena is a beautiful place, the old town is enclosed within stone walls as this was a fort. The first thing that hit ...

... over the Bangladeshi team. In fact the winning team is the West Indies team, which combines players from all over the Carribean. The win was overshadowed by the fact that the Wi players were attacked by overzealous Bangladeshi fans, which sparked an ...