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Belize - this is a country that anybody will find it hard not to fall in love with. <br /><br />Sorry its been a while, since I last wrote 10 days ago,we about to cross the border from Chetumal, Mexico into Belize. We actually decided to stay one more night after I wrote the previous blog as we didnt really fancy a night bus ride, so after a final selection of tacos for dinner, we were on the road the following morning for a whole new set of adventures in Belize....

Stormy Islands, Rastafarians and a day trip to Guatemala - You Better Belize It!!

Lucian Reed-Drake
2006-03-27 14:03:05

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we settled in our room. Luckily we had a TV which although flickered got us through it. It was a little worrying though,
we prayed not to have another Carribbean hurricane!!!!

And the next morning..calm. With the exception of a few large puddles and disgruntled clothes lines, you would have never known a storm had taken place! Thats the strange thing about tropical storms, one minute carnage then next minute its back to idyllic island life, sun is shining the rastafarians are back out and people are smiling again.

By Sunday we were on the road again, or should I say the sea, as we got a boat over back over to Belize City and then an interesting bus journey to say the least, towards a western town called San Ignacio.

Now bus journeys, belize it or not (sorry for the cheap pun!), I find quite enjoyable. Yes it was a sticky hot old American school bus, and yes we are bundled on and stop off at every single stop and street corner possible..but alas, the people - the passengers make the journey. Every single kind of culture was crammed onto this bus, my Dad brilliantly described it in an email to his friends:

"They say that you can see the whole world in a grain of sand - well I'm not sure about that, but you
can certainly experience a whole world in four hours on a Novelo bus travelling between Belize City and San Ignacio.

We managed to find seats, despite the scrum to get on board and the ensuing chaos as bags, boxes, packages and suitcases were passed along the bus and crammed in at the back. Settling down for the journey I cast my eyes around - so many interesting faces: black youths with wrap around shades, Guatemalan women with beautiful deep brown eyes and tiny kids clinging to them like limpids, a lone British backpacker in unfashionable safari gear (who looked like a geography teacher) anxiously fussing with and re-packing his 'equipment' bags, a middle aged Japanese ...