Author: Shanti

February 17, 2019 We woke up early and booked a tour to the Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) caves.  National Geographic voted it the most sacred cave in the world.  This was a place the Mayans would come to make sacrifices to the rain god.  They started with food sacrifices and there were many pottery artifacts…

February 16, 2019 We packed up camp and left on a very early 6:30am bus from Rocky Point Inn.  As the bus stops all along the way for anyone who flags it down it quickly became crowded.  Brendan generously gave up his seat again and was standing in the aisle for the majority of the…

Feb 15, 2019 We decided to stay a second night camping at Steve and Michelle’s Rocky Point Inn.  Taylor had a conference call for school she needed to do at 1pm so we just relaxed until then and caught up on laundry etc.  We went to a local beach bar with a pool after her…

Feb 14, 2019 We got an invitation from some people we met on the plane to Belize City who are builders and own an Inn on Maya Beach.  They did not have any rooms available but offered to let us set up camp on their property. We packed up camp in Placencia and took the…

Feb 13, 2019 We woke up and checked out of the Funky Dodo.  We hit up our favorite Hopkins food cart which was tacos (3 for .50 cents).  Our first day we started off with ordering 3 but ended up going right back for 3 more.  They were not big but fresh homemade tortillas made…

Feb 11-12th, 2019 We liked the town of Hopkins and the Funky Dodo so much we ended up staying two more nights.  The town had such a nice energy and was very relaxed.  All the locals were very welcoming and friendly.  We spent most of the days hanging out on the beach and taking walks. …

February 10, 2019 We decided to head back to the mainland and start to head south towards Placencia.  Before catching the water taxi back to Belize City we took the golf cart out for one last spin.  On our way back we got caught in a monsoon type rainstorm and got pretty soaked.  It was…

Feb 9, 2019 (Happy Birthday Dad!) San Pedro was busy (with tons of golf carts).  We also decided to blend in and rent a golf cart for the day so we could go north on the island to the not so secret “Secret Beach”.  It was a really fun 45 minute golf cart ride out…

Feb 8, 2019 After a slightly better nights sleep in the tent we packed up camp and headed to the water taxi for San Pedro. We first stopped for a traditional Belizian “fry jack” which is a delicious fried dough pocket with whatever filling you want in it (I chose beans, cheese and eggs, and…

2/7/2019 So the night in the tent was a bit rough.  We kept the rain fly on the tent as we didn’t want the cats peeing on the inner part where we could smell it all night.  This meant there was no air movement and it was HOT and MUGGY.  We also had to keep…