San Ignacio Travel Blogs

  Once back at the Trek Stop it was time for something different: Tubing! The principle of tubing is simple. One taketh an inflated inner tube of a truck (hence the name), positions tube in water, then positions oneself in the tube, and then let the current and rapids in the river do the re…

Cahal Pech "Place of ticks", a Maya ceremonial center on the southern outskirts of San Ignacio Town in the upper Belize Valley of the Cayo District, Belize. A 15 minute walk from San Ignacio. The site is on a crest of a steep-sided hill on the west bank of the Macal River. The acropolis, about 900 …

Cahal Pech "Place of ticks", a Maya ceremonial center on the southern outskirts of San Ignacio Town in the upper Belize Valley of the Cayo District, Belize. A 15 minute walk from San Ignacio. The site is on a crest of a steep-sided hill on the west bank of the Macal River. The acropolis, abou…

Expensive? Now then, Belize.  Many of those I met on the road were not going to Belize because it is viewed as expensive. Well, that depends on where you go.  I understand that the world class destinations Belize has to offer are quite expensive - some of the Cayes on and around the Barr…

The journey to Xunantunich took us across the whole of Belize, almost to the border with Guatemala. After passing through the town of San Ignacio, we continued on the Western Highway to a point where we had to cross the Mopan River. The ferry, which reminded me of White's Ferry on the Potomac, cann…

San Ignacio, in Belize's western Cayo District, is a the place to stay for your land-based activities.  The town, referred to by locals only as Cayo, is built along the shore of the Macal River.  Directly across the Macal, on the opposite shore, is the town of Santa Elena.  There are…

Cahal Pech "Place of ticks", a Maya ceremonial center on the southern outskirts of San Ignacio Town in the upper Belize Valley of the Cayo District, Belize. A 15 minute walk from San Ignacio. The site is on a crest of a steep-sided hill on the west bank of the Macal River. The acropolis, about …

Mon 1 Dec 2008 World AIDS Day �" Bethany was in charge of World AIDS Day. The morning started out at 7AM to set-up the float. We strung red and white balloons together, then made our way to the park, where we hung them up. I was impressed by the turnout. The neighboring schools came includi…

Our day trip to the ruins located on the border of Guatemala.  An all day adventure but completely worth it!

Driving to Belmopan, Belize from Milwaukee, Wisconsin was life-altering to say the least! (Yes, I loved every minute of it! :) ) Once in Belize, I spent some time getting to know the people and exploring as much of the country as I could. Hopefully, some of these pics will give you guys a feel of how wonderful Belize truly is.

After crossing the bridge from Santa Elena to San Ignacio, we continued on to the small town of San Jose Succotz to take the ferry across the river to the ruins of the Mayan city of Xunantunich.  What an experience!  When we got out of the car it was like walking into a furnace - it had t…

San Ignacio Before i go into the San ignacio experience i need bring you up to date. I started the Tour of Central America in Belize City and meet the rest of the group on Saturday evening. I have been put in a room with an Austrian guy, who by all accounts is German, he speakes German and he has …

Dragged myself out of bed and to the supermarket to get some snacks for the long day. Turned up to the tour operator at 8:30am only to be told that the heavy rainfall overnight and all morning meant we couldn't do the trip as we had to do 3 river crossings just to get to the cave and the water woul…

We got up early and had breakfast and got ready for our 6 hour bus ride back to Robert's house to prep for what was going to be my last night. Once we got to Robert's house we decided to go have a nice dinner out for my last day and got some movies...since we planned to stay up all night so I…

A couple weeks going around the northern parts of Central America