Where the heck is Belize?? ya I had to ask that question when I got invited to go travel this beautiful country! Its in central America right under Mexico and boarding Guatemala.
We stayed 2 weeks and we roughed it! The first week we stayed in 2 different hostels. The first hostel we stayed at, we showed up and there were like 3 guys there just staring as we pulled in. Needless to say we were a bit creeped out!! It turned out that although they were weed and pot smokers, they were nice guys! We met the cutest little Belizian toddler, ate from dirty, rotten dishes, and slept with rats and mosquitos and bats, had to put our toilet paper in a trash can, and had to watch out for snakes when walking to the bathroom I MEAN OUTHOUSE (it was beyond disgusting). Needless to say I only peed once.
- the second place we went to (bartons creek) it was a very safe friendly place in the middle of the jungle! there was no transportation out unless you called and scheduled the cab driver like a day in advance so we were literally stuck in the jungle! It was way cool tho and there was a nearby cave that we snuck into bc we didn't want to pay $60 for a tour guide and we may or may not have almost went to jail! haha OH and we starved because we were being cheap and didn't want to spend $12 a meal there and their stupid dogs ate a loaf of bread which was all we had for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches! So we ate like hardly at all those 4 days! We were told to never again walk on the neighbors property, we were band from all his amenities, we may or may not have skinny dipped in the moon light, may or may not have met super cute Florida backpackers, may or maynot have been kissed under beautiful waterfalls, and may or may not have totally enjoyed Bartons Creek.
- Then we headed back to the city San Ignacio and stayed in a hotel. It was one of the nicest ones there bc it had AC but it was still ghetto! but dont worry we felt like we were in paradise! San Ignacio was our base for all the tours we went on that whole weekend. We stayed very busy. We did all the big major tours in 3 days. ATM caves, Tikal, and Xunatunitch (however you spell it I still cant say it right). We came buddys with the burrito guy, ran into the missionaries, went to church, got stalked by a man that lived on which ever street we happened to be at, met a mormon group of volunteers from Utah, and got engaged to a Belizian tour guide.
- We then took off to the coast where we stayed in a beautiful beach house like 20 min by boat away from the island city SanPedro (its a long skinny island and everyone travels by boat taxis to go back and forth from the "city" to their beach house) We snorkeled and scuba-dived and laid out by the beach and FINALLY ate some good food that was like $30 a plate! It was great to go from roughing it in the jungle to then being in paradise!
It was such a fun trip!... I'm sure I'll add more memories for journal keepings sake but for right now this is good enough! lol
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| This is all I packed for 2 weeks! Amazing right? Fit it all in a nike duffle bag! |
