
You Better Belize It! Day 9 (Is it time to go home yet?)
Friday (April 8th) was our last day in Belize. I have to admit that we weren’t sad to go home. We’d had a great time on our trip; saw a lot of extraordinary things, met nice people, ate good food,…

You Better Belize It! Day 8 (Branch Mouth)
We had one full day left (April 7th) to bum around Belize, but we had done everything within easy access and we were about out of cash. We had no desire to pull money out of an ATM, so we…

You Better Belize It! Day 7 (Xunantunich)
There was one more nearby Maya ruin that we wanted to see, so on Wednesday (April 6th) we braved the bus again and headed to Xunantunich (pronounced shoo-nahn-too-neech). As is common with ancient Maya cities, it is situated high on…

You Better Belize It! Day 6 (Cahal Pech)
We decided to take a break from the scary vehicles and driving and hoof it to Cahal Pech on Tuesday (April 5th). It’s the oldest known Maya site in the Belize River valley, and sits high on a hill about…

You Better Belize It! Day5 (ATM)
On Monday (April 4th)we went to Actun Tunichil Muknal (known as ATM), which is a 3-mile-long cave in the northern foothills of the Maya Mountains, and it is filled with ancient Maya artifacts and human remains. We were told it…

You Better Belize It! Day 4 (Zip-line & Tikal)
I’m sorry for enormous size of this post. We had a very busy day! As we were planning this trip, one of the things that we were most excited about was visiting Tikal, which is an ancient Maya city in…

You Better Belize It! Day 3 (San Ignacio)
We caught the 8:30 water taxi back into Belize City Saturday morning (April 2nd); again packed in like sardines. I sat down in one of the last square feet of space while the crew took Bee up to the top…

You Better Belize It! Day 2 (Caye Caulker)
Caye Caulker is a fairly small island in the Caribbean Sea with a very laid back atmosphere and not much to do, which is why I chose it. It’s not as packed with tourists as some of the other islands…

You Better Belize It! Day 1
We needed to get out of town for a while, so we decided to go to Belize. How did we decide on Belize? We wanted to go somewhere that had a lot of history or natural wonders, and it had…
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