Mopan

... add details to later. Day 1 - arrive Belize International Airport Sunday afternoon hustled $2/bag $30 cab ride to Hotel Mopan only place open for dinner was Chinese restaurant - interesting walk through dead town Chinese food and Chester aka ...

... Mopan river and he points out the hand-cranked ferry across the river used to access the road to the Xunantunich ruins.  The Mopan looked much cleaner than we were expecting based on what I had read on the Belize forum.  Many people were in it, ...

... som tillbringar vintermånaderna på varmare breddgrader. Tillsammans promenerade vi norrut från San Ignacio, upp till platsen där floderna Mopan och Macal flyter ihop och bildar Belizefloden. Längs floden solar leguaner sig på trädens grenar, redo ...

... was a thriving Mayan city during the Classic Period, from about A.D. 600 to 900.  To reach the ruins, you must cross the Mopan River aboard a tiny hand-cranked car-ferry in the village of San José Succotz. Allthe kids got to take a turn at ...

... know. I concealed my relief.     We meet another realtor. An exAmish who took us to see 20 acres on the Mopan River. It is fast the Mopan but this plot had a nice tree lined bank where the access was easy. There was a magnificent huge ...

... sun is relentless here and the days are really hot. In the afternoon, I rented an inner-tube and floated down the Mopan river with 2 young American biologists that are working at a jungle research center a couple hours from here. Iguanas are abundant and ...

... and drove south down the 092 (Xian Dao) out of Guilin and ending at Mopanshan Wharf (south of Liberation Bridge) named after Mopan Hill. Our baggage decided to make its own way to Yangshuo by taxi to meet us there! The wharf is very commercialized with ...

To get to the Mayan ruins of Xunantunich (Prn. Zhoo-NAN-too-nitch), we first had to cross the Mopan river. To do this we boarded something that made the eco-powder-monkey [1] in me proud: A human-powered car-ferry:     ...which is winched ...

... individual interests. A true professional. And very, very entertaining. And so we arrived at the ferry to take us across the Mopan river, for the last leg of the journey to Xunantunich... but that'll have to wait until next time, cuz ...

We had 4 more tours/activities we wanted to do in 3 days, though: horseback ride, canoe the Macal or kayak the Mopan, see Actun Tunichil Muknal, and see the Inland Blue Hole and St. Edwards Cave.  Horseback riding and canoeing or kayaking could both ...

... . They were yummy. Saturday we jumped on the bus and headed to San Ignacio where we spent the day floating down tubs in the Mopan River. I think everyone would have gotten a kick out of me, relaxing in the cool water with a bottle of rum and coke tied ...

... and they believe it was intentional). I went with Keely, Jon, and Debbie to a place called Branch Mouth; the Macal and Mopan rivers join to form the Belize River. It was a fairly typical river swimming experience...lots of things floating in the water ...

... , also  known as Cayo (meaning 'island') is nestled in a pictureseque valley between the rivers Macal and Mopan, about 15 minutes from the Guatemalan border. It's a small town, pretty enough, with friendly locals from a diverse ...

... with a fishing port and harbour connections to Livingston, Guatemala. It has a right mix of Chinese, Creoles, East Indians, Mopan and Q'eqchi (latter 2 are different types of Mayan tribes). Seemingly, when Britain handed over power of Hong Kong in ...

Today I walked the river trail back to the road and headed over to the ferry that takes you across the Mopan river and then it's a little less than a mile walk up to Xunantunich. I ran into a couple of guys fro the resort that were also touring the area ...