Take a shuttle, they said. It'll be safer than public transport, they said. Chicken bus drivers are certifiable, they said. Well dear reader, I have never thought I was going to die on a chicken bus but our shuttle driver from Flores to Lanquin was an utter maniac, belting around the winding roads and overtaking [...]
Well that's it then. I think I'm officially too old for hostels. People watching videos without headphones, having loud, late conversations in the dorm room, people leaving their dishes in the sink or their leftover food in pots like no bugger else would want to use them. It all grates on my aging nerves. I'm [...]
Absolute rookie error, in all my research I didn't catch that the ticket office was 17 kilometres from the actual site. When we arrived the colectivo driver asked us if we'd bought tickets online and because we hadn't we had to get out, buy them, then wait for the next colectivo. The queue was quite [...]
The day after the ATM Cave we booked to go to Barton Creek which is another Mayan cave but you canoe through this one. You can also take photos which is cool. We went with Maya Walks again and we were driven in a gloriously air conditioned pick up truck to the cave entrance where [...]
Actun Tunichil Muknal (try saying that after a few sherries), more commonly known as the ATM Cave (thank fuck!) is the most popular tour out of San Ignacio despite the whopping US$125 price tag. Try not to cry. You can't even take photos inside, all the pictures in this blog were emailed to us and [...]
I've fucked about with the timelines here. I actually dived the local reef at Caye Caulker before I went to the Blue Hole then I went to Esmerelda after we'd spent a couple of days in San Pedro on Ambergris Caye pretty much just sprawling by the pool. Esmerelda and Tackle Box are San Pedro's [...]
I've wanted to dive the Great Blue Hole pretty much as soon as I got into scuba diving and learned that this particular sink hole was a thing that existed. Then people started telling me it was a shit dive and not worth the really quite hefty price tag (honestly, try not to choke when [...]
Caye Caulker is the kind of place where pretty much as soon as you rock up you feel chilled as fuck. Even as we hauled our backpacks through the village in the heat we knew we were going to like it here. We were staying at little bit out of the centre, we booked a [...]
It pissed rain pretty much all morning. The nightly storm started late in the night, the thunder startling me awake at fuck knows what hour so obviously I had to lie awake fretting that the boat wouldn't go if the weather was still too bad. It was Friday, the boats don't go at the weekend, [...]
We were just popping through this south eastern corner of Guatemala to get to the boat to Belize but it's definitely worth a look. The done thing in Rio Dulce is to stay in one of the eco-lodges that line the river but they're only accessible by boat. You can usually get there for free [...]
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