Madness in Belize

Its impossible to tell the full story of whats happened since Cancun but it has been a wonderful and amazing last week or so. Sadly the sun didnt really come in Cancun so I only visited the beaches breifly. I spent most of the time there at the hostel chatting to other travellers on the excellent roof area. I had a few drinks with some Germans and a Canadian girl. The place itself didnt overly impress me anyway it was too full of tourists and people with too much money. After that I went to Chetumal which was a stopover before Belize, I met Gabi from Germany and had a few beers with her as I think we were the only 2 in the hostel, we saw some excellent Mexican Christmas decorations on the way back to the hostel with a whole street literally lit up. It was fantastic.

The next day I crossed over to Belize and Orange Walk, a small town which I didnt expect to have any tourists and merely be a bed for the night. As soon as I arrived I met Myles, Caroline, Bianca, Brendan and Pete who were from literally all over the place and had met up on the road. I went for a few Belkins with them and it turned out we were heading to the same places so I set off with them at 6am the next day. We headed to Belmopan, the sleepy capital as it made a good base to explore the nearby Blue Hole national park which had a swimming hole, a short hike and a very dark cave! We then hitched from there to Belize Zoo on the back of a truck which was completely random and awesome. The zoo itself was pretty good, though the staff not particularly great.

After a night spent in the Love Kiss Motel which despite the name did not actually charge the hourly rate, we set off early again for San Ignacio near the Guatemalan border, the day was mainly spent in Pine Mountain Ridge which consisted of another cave and a couple of waterfalls with some fun rock pools to swim around in, it was really nice and the views pretty stunning. It was our last night all together so we had a fair few drinks and ended up in a Belizian bar with some reggae beats and I got pretty smashed and talked to a load of the locals which despite the hangover was awesome.

Today I crossed the border with Miles and Caroline and we got a room in the hostel here in Flores, Guatemala. It is the base for exploring the ruins at Tikal which we are doing tomorrow very early as the sunrise is supposed to be something special. So all in all in brilliant and amazing week, there is so much else I could mention but its impossible to remember everything. My itinerary is kind of all over the place as I may well hang with these guys a while longer and maybe meet up with some other people for new years.