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It’s mid-July and I’m heading out soon to do a bit of exploring…cayes and Hopkins. HURRAY!
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Last week, Jamie and I set sail with Raggamuffin Tours. This was not your regular day sail. The adventure included 3 full days of fishing, snorkeling and island-hopping (Caye-hopping technically) along the 2nd largest barrier reef in the world. It was awesome. We were on a gorgeous catamaran with our own private chef, a captain,Keep reading »
A Guide to Packing for Your Trip to Belize Ambergris Caye has SO much to do. So many restaurant, beach bars, snorkel sites, dive shops and more. But packing for your trip to Belize should be very simple. I’ve put together some information – a guide to packing for Belize – for a week longKeep reading »
A coral atoll in itself is quite miraculous. A circle of microscopic polyps clinging to each other and rising up on the edges of ancient volcanos or shifting fault blocks – braving winds, deep water waves and storms – over thousands and millions of year. Belize is so blessed. Tiny Belize has three atolls offKeep reading »
Belize is a country of surprises. It’s in Spanish speaking Central America but almost seems more like a Caribbean island. It’s a land that seems to be filled with those doing their own thing… You’ll find modern fields of soy and corn being sprayed by crop dusters and leveled with state of the art technologyKeep reading »
Hopkins is a beach town in Southern Belize (population 1500ish) that has really held on to its roots as a Garifuna Village. Well maybe that’s the wrong way to say it…it hasn’t held onto anything. It is a tiny Garifuna Village. A friendly place on a long strip of beach that will have youKeep reading »
Everyone knows TED talks. It all started in 1984 as a one time media conference – featuring a handful of short talks about a new trend: the convergence of design, technology and entertainment. The talks have grown into a global phenomenon – viral videos sparking global discussions. You can get a feel for the topicsKeep reading »
Friday morning, I headed into town to catch the 11:30am water taxi to Belize City. The plan? Boat ride to the city (1.5 hours), catch the bus out to Belmopan, our country’s capital, stay overnight to attend Saturday’s TEDx talk in Belmopan. An independently organized TED talk, the 2nd ever to be held in Belize. Keep reading »
Money and Belize Currency Conversions I get lots of questions from first time visitors about money in Belize — does everyone accept credit cards, do shops accept US dollars, do ATM machines take US or foreign cards? It’s just smart travel planning. So here is a break-down of the basics of money and Belize Currency.Keep reading »
You’ve booked a trip to Belize. HURRAY! So much to see and do (here’s why Belize is SO different from other places). But first you need to get to your final destination – your hotel or rental home. And if you are staying on Ambergris Caye or Caye Caulker, well…they are islands. And, onceKeep reading »
Blogging in Belize has its ups and downs – and that’s probably true anywhere. From the totally non-glamorous – like looking at site statistics and answering “a what? you can make money at that?” to the most fun parts – like traveling and meeting some of the most interesting people in the country. But a fewKeep reading »
Just a few days ago, I made my way out to Western Belize. 91 miles as the crow flies but from the far north east of the country almost to the western border with Guatemala. Simply put: less than 100 miles from reef to jungle. It’s AMAZING how landscapes can change so quickly in Belize.Keep reading »
Belize is so incredibly photogenic. If you’ve never been, it’s easy to imagine the beautiful reef and the SCUBA diving that the country is so famous for. But Belize, despite our tiny size, is so much more. Beach, reef, jungle, wildlife, mountains, INCREDIBLE culture all in a country smaller than the state of Massachusetts. And theKeep reading »
Summer in Belize. The weather gets warmer, we start to have rain showers now and again (though mostly at night), tourism slows AND travel prices drop. It’s also the time when people that live here generally have some time off to enjoy our island a bit more. Though that tends to come hand in handKeep reading »
Sarteneja is a small village on the coast of Northern Belize’s Corozal district that can’t help but charm. The water is a distinctive chalky aqua, the old style fishing boats are bobbing in the breeze and the white village streets are lined with neat homes and huge almond & mango trees. The village has aKeep reading »
Belize is a tiny country – but travel, depending on your time and your budget (but mostly your budget), can be time consuming. A few days ago, I took the slow route south – from Ambergris Caye to Placencia. The quaint, colorful, vibrant village famous for their deep long beach and sidewalk main street. AKeep reading »
I do love an invitation. Last week I signed up for a pretty exciting trip to Orange Walk. Most exciting because, for years, I was operating under the belief that those who visited the northwest district of Belize were going to see one of Belize’s grandest Mayan sites – Lamanai. Only. It’s a “do notKeep reading »
I spent the weekend in lovely Hopkins Village – a strip of seafront land sandwiched between two rivers. The area is becoming a “tale of two cities” with Hopkins village proper, one of small wooden houses and thatched roof businesses on the beach and Sittee Point, further south by the gorgeous Sittee River. Sittee PointKeep reading »
Road signs, store signs, and just random warning signs…there are lots of beautiful hand-painted, intentionally or unintentional funny signs and often unexpected signs in this little country. On Tobacco Caye though this one could be in SO many spots. Here are a bunch of photos that I’ve taken over the last few years all around theKeep reading »
To see 10…16…20 scarlet macaws flying across the late afternoon sky is almost hard to believe. Always even numbers, these surreally colorful, gorgeous birds mate for life. Shrieking, gliding in tandem and so garishly colored, it’s as if evolution forgot them. There is no missing them in the jungle of one thousand greens. These birds areKeep reading »
This weekend I head into the Chiquibul Nature Reserve to join volunteers that are camping at the bottoms of huge trees to protect Belize’s Scarlet Macaws from poaching. Last year, I did one night…this year, I will do four. BABY STEPS! Most volunteers head into the jungle for 14 nights. No internet. No electricity. No phone.Keep reading »
