Dec 26, 2012 - Sun, sea and seafood

What a place to rest your head and recharge your body. There are no cars on the island, although you can walk from one end to the other quite easily. There are golf buggys though instead. It was all peace and tranquility. I especially loved that you could go to a resturant, pick out your food and then they would cook it for you.

Aug 22, 2012 - Island paradise! 

Caye caulker was without doubt one of my favourite parts of the entire holiday! We stayed in a really nice wooden house of a hostel that consisted of one big dorm on a few different levels throughout the place! The island itself was pretty tiny with only a few streets and a split in the middle were the beach and lazy lizard bar was at the north end were we spent the remainder of the first day! The next day we spent chilling on the beach, swimming and exploring the rest of the town as well as having a but if Craic in the hostel with the rest...

Feb 19, 2012 - Caye Caulker

Today we travelled by small boat to another island called Caye Caulker. About 30 minutes ride from Ambergris. For most of our time in Belize it has been gloomy and rainy but since leaving the mainland and coming out to the Caribbean islands it has been sunny everyday and overbearingly hot. My back is sore from a sunburn. We are not staying at a hotel. I managed to rent a furnished apartment for a week. Very nice and cheaper than a hotel. We can cook our own meals and don’t need to go to restaurants. This is a good thing as I have spent too...

Jan 4, 2012 - Just another day in paradise

Well a wonderful sleep with tropical winds blowing throughout the night, what more could one ask for? Okay... I asked for sunny weather and tropical breeze and a few drinks, but those things all come at a price... Had a great breakfast, went to the ATM, which hasn't been working here on the island most of the weekend due to the holiday and all. After checking the signage, reading the instructions several times and putting my card in 4 different ways the machine was ready to give me some cash! So I was ready for the sun and tropical breezes,...

Jan 2, 2012 - Caye Caulker, Belize

We arrived January 1 st in Caye Caulker under partially cloudy skies. An hour in and we had torrential down pour- it wasn't going to ruin my positive outlook, for the most part it stayed dry but... With Lunch, a few Cuba libres, and a break in the weather we were on track for a great free afternoon... We had some free time to explore, dive off the ends of the piers and have some feel good reggae time mahn! Needless to say, the early start put us all back at the hotel and in bed by 9:30 We all seemed to be awoken at 4 am by what appeared to...

Sep 6, 2011 - You'd better Belize it!

Hey folks! Yesterday morning we left Playa del Carmen by bus to Chetumal- a port town where we could catch a water taxi to the Belizian islands. These taxis probably hold a maximum of 40 people and are driven by a set of outboard motors, depending on how the captain feels we are doing, he rearranges where people sit during the trip to keep the boat balanced. The water taxis took about 3 hours to get us to our island after a quick stop on San Pedro, to clear customs. On the beach beside the harbour we ran into a Rasta who introduced us to...

Jul 6, 2011 - Caye Caulker

Hola! On se trouve presentement dans une petite librairie de livres usages sur lile de Caye Caulker, au Belize, a attendre que la pluie arrete!!! Le trajet pour se rendre ici sest bien passe! Ici, le beat de vie est totalement different du Quebec!!! Pour vous donnez une idee, le slogan que tous le monde dit est GO SLOW!!! Ici c;est : Dont worry.... every little thing is gonna be alright.... On voit bien l;influence de Bob Marley partout!!! Dans les bars et les restau, a travers l;habillement des gens, sur les decoration des petites maisons...

Jun 22, 2011 - Caye Caulker

Well, I am currently in Belize and it's amazing. The entire country was once colonized by Britain so everything here is in English. This is quite the feat as it is the only country in Central America that is not Spanish. So far I have spent the last few days in Cay Caulker which is a really small but amazing island in Belize. There are a ton of water based sports here including snorkelling, spear fishing, kite surfing, wind surfing, etc. I ended up spending my first day doing sailing and snorkelling and it was a blast. I got to swim with...

Jun 15, 2011 - Belize

(NB some pictures were too big to be uploaded, see my facebook page for better pics!) As Rob and I crossed the border at Chetumal from Mexico to Belize (previously British Honduras), the contrast between the 2 countries couldn't have been more startling. Belize beats to an entirely different drum than the rest of Central America. For a start, the language spoken is English, not Spanish, and when I say English, I mean a Carribean flavoured, Bob Marley type English! After missing the last Mexican bus to Belize City, we hopped onto a Belizean...

Mar 31, 2011 - Central America - Belize

The border crossing into Belize was one of the easiest I have done, mainly due to the fact that we caught a ferry rather than a bus. The original plan was to catch a bus, however when we arrived at the terminal we discovered that the company that ran the service between Chetamul in Mexico and Belize City had had their license revoked. This turned out to be a much quicker journey (~ 2 hours), with a short stop over in San Pedro to do all the boring customs stuff. This involved getting all our belongings off the boat onto a small pier,...

Jan 30, 2011 - Caye Caulker

The 27th was an epic travel day. We got our bus from Tulum to Campeche at 10am - it was meant to be about a 4.5-5 hour trip however we made it to Campeche by 1.30...we have learnt not to look out the windscreen on buses in Central America. Because we were so early we decided to skip Belize City and head straight for the ferry to Caye Caulker. We managed to run into the Aussies from the night before who had caught an earlier bus so when we arrived in Caye Caulker we all ventured out to find a hostel together. That night we found a beach...

Jan 25, 2011 - Caye Caulker, Belize

After a great local flight from Mexico City to Chetamul, we caught a taxi to the Belize border. We were immediately swamped by what looked like officials at the border but actually they turned out to be con artists looking to catch the weary traveller for their next quick buck. We only realised on the bus when the conductor came round asking us to pay that we had been scammed out of $40 US. The bus ride itself was very interesting to say the least. We soon realised that there are any designated bus stops in Belize and the driver would stop...