Feb 26, 2019 We woke up early and started our tour with Josh and Kyra to Semuc Champey. Just getting there felt like an adventure as they put us all in the back of a truck where we stood holding onto bars and went on an extremely bumpy 45 minute ride into the jungle. It…
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Day 22 – Lanquin, GT
Feb 25, 2019 Excited for a rest day in a beautiful place today we just hung out. Our friend Josh that we have been traveling with from San Ignacio, Belize was in a hostel across the way from us. After a leisurely morning the three of us with Kyra went over to his hostel to…
Day 21 – Lanquin, GT
Feb 24 2019 Today we head to Lanquin to get to the pools of Guatemala’s favorite Semuc Champey. It was a 6 hour long shuttle ride for only 110 Q (about $14.25 USD each). Driving through the countryside was beautiful. However, the shuttle was jammed packed and we even had a person sitting on the…
Day 20 – Flores, GT
Feb 23 2019 We knew our next stop was going to be the town of Lanquin where you can reach the pools of Semuc Champey. We stopped at a travel center in Flores and found that we could take an 8 hour long shuttle ride to Lanquin the next morning for about $14 usd per…
Day 19 – Flores, GT
Feb 22, 2019 After another hot and muggy night in the 9 person dorm room we decided to book a private room in Flores for another couple nights. We decided we would ‘treat ourselves’ and spend a little extra to get a hotel with a pool. We packed our things and crammed into a tuk…
Day 18 – Flores, GT
Feb 21, 2019 After only a couple hours of not very good sleep we got up at 2:30am and were outside by 3am to catch the shuttle to Tikal. It was about a 1.5 hour long ride to the site. We hiked in the dark to reach the tallest pyramid there (and the 2nd largest Mayan…
Day 17 – Flores, Guatemala
Feb, 20th 2019 Today we left Belize and crossed the boarder to Guatemala. This was the first time we had ever walked across a boarder. We took a cab from San Ignacio to the boarder (about a 15 min ride) where we paid a $20 USD exit fee per person to leave Belize. At the…
Our Travel Tips for Belize
We found Belize to be a laid back, Caribbean feel type country. A couple things we didn’t know that might be helpful if your planning a trip: As of now you don’t need to exchange currency. The exchange rate is about 2:1 (2 Belize dollars for 1 US). They gladly take US dollars and give…
Day 16 – San Ignacio, Belize
February 19, 2018 After two adventure filled days we decided to spend one more night in San Ignacio so we could recoup and catch up on things like laundry and school for Brendan and Taylor. There was a raptor center which we thought was not too far away that had a free bird show, so…
Day 15 – San Ignacio, Belize
February 18, 2019 At the hostel we met another Brendan from Portland, Oregon! He and another traveler (Natalie from Germany) were renting a car to go out to another Mayan ruin site, Caracol. We also wanted to go to Caracol but the price of tours was too expensive for our budget. They offered for us…