Trip: A year with a difference
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MEXICO | Friday, 3 Apr 2009 | Photo Gallery
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MEXICO | Friday, 3 Apr 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Friday, 3 Apr 2009 | Photo Gallery
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MEXICO | Wednesday, 1 Apr 2009 | Views [1159]
Observant readers may remember that back in Panama,we went on a tour of a specialist coffee producer on the slopes of Volcan Baru . The blurb on the tour said ´ warning you may become a coffee snob ´. Unlikely, I thought – I´ve been ... Read more >
Tags: finding a decent coffee in central america
GUATEMALA | Wednesday, 1 Apr 2009 | Views [2407]
Another tourist micro bus, another long journey south to Antigua. This time the bad road bit was at the start, so we were able to enjoy the fantastic views whilst not minding the banging around. Our driver was of the ´there´s no speed except ... Read more >
Tags: antigua, bad trades, colonial architechture, volcan pacaya
GUATEMALA | Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009 | Views [2422]
We left Chetumal and got a long-distance bus going straight to Flores, Guatemala. This involved heading down through northern Belize again to Belize City, and then across to San Ignacio and over the border. We drove through the Peten basin ... Read more >
Tags: flores, languin, semuc champey, suicide dogs, tikal
GUATEMALA | Friday, 27 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Friday, 27 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
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GUATEMALA | Thursday, 26 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
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MEXICO | Sunday, 15 Mar 2009 | Photo Gallery
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MEXICO | Saturday, 28 Feb 2009 | Views [7972]
Everything
was set for our rendezvous with my parents on 2 nd February: our
accommodation was booked for the following 2 weeks and we had even hired a car.
Our itinerary went something like this: bumming on the beach in Puerto ... Read more >
Tags: beaches, cenotes, coba, dogs, driving, luggage, merida, parents, ruins, tulum
MEXICO | Friday, 20 Feb 2009 | Views [1665]
After Belize our first stop was the border town of Chetumal. Well more of a city really, a huge urban sprawl, like everywhere else we’ve since seen in Mexico. On the plus side, the roads were good, accommodation was cheap, we found a good café, an ... Read more >
Tags: chetumal, cozumel, diving, food, people, playa del carmen, shopping
BELIZE | Thursday, 19 Feb 2009 | Views [2380]
Boat Trip Bonanza Our last destination in Belize was Orange Walk in the north of the country. This is Belize´s second town, an agricultural centre near to the main concentrations of Mennonite communities in the country. The main reason most ... Read more >
Tags: crime, guatemalan land claims, laidbackness, lamanai, orange walk, reflections on belize
BELIZE | Wednesday, 4 Feb 2009 | Views [1105]
In Belize, by the Carib Sea... we thought: let´s go to Caye Caulker and enjoy some sun! Maybe snorkelling too! But we sneezed instead and stayed in bed, feeling half thankful we didn´t have ´flu! Then, thankfully, after three days of wind ... Read more >
Tags: finally sun, rain, sand, snorkelling
BELIZE | Sunday, 1 Feb 2009 | Views [1900]
Trundling by chicken bus towards Belize City, we took some time out to visit Belize Zoo conveniently located next to the highway. The zoo and associated Tropical Education Centre was established in 1983, to quote the blurb, “as a last ditch effort to ... Read more >
Tags: belize city, belize zoo, sleepy animals
BELIZE | Saturday, 31 Jan 2009 | Views [2555]
After the backwater horror of Belmopan, we were pleasantly surprised by San Ignacio – Belize´s third biggest town. Its gets a lot of tourist activity, as its near a handful of Mayan sites, including Tikal, across the border in Guatemala. Its also next ... Read more >
Tags: caracol, cave-tubing, mountain pine ridge reserve, nice restaurants, san ignacio, xunantunich
BELIZE | Friday, 30 Jan 2009 | Views [1464]
Once back from MMRF, we spent a few days in Punta Gorda. Its an unremarkable town, but we have to say that it had some of the friendliest people that we´ve found so far – lots of people just wanted to chat; to find out where we were from, to tell ... Read more >
Tags: cockscombe basin reserve, maya center, punta gorda
BELIZE | Thursday, 29 Jan 2009 | Views [4628] | Comments [3]
Alter our very relaxing time in Placencia, we caught a bus down south on the long, straight southern highway that passes through mile upon mile of scrubby lowland forest, as far as the eye can see. It looked like the forestry service was trying, ... Read more >
Tags: lubuntuun, maya mountain research farm, mmrf, permaculture, san pedro columbia, volunteering
BELIZE | Wednesday, 28 Jan 2009 | Views [876]
Puerto Cortes would be our last stop in Honduras. The biggest container port in Honduras (if not the only), this working city would be home for two nights and a day until we took the Monday ferry to Belize. The sun was back at last - just in time ... Read more >
Tags: placencia, sand and pink lemonade, sea, sun
BELIZE | Tuesday, 27 Jan 2009 | Photo Gallery
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