Our Week In Belize

We arrived in Belize on the afternoon of 26th July, we settled into our accomodation and met our Tour guide Gonzo, who would be taking us to places and do activities.

27th July we went to a site of Mayan Ruins, and learnt all about the history of the site. All the girls had great fun climbing to the top of the biggest one 13 stories up, from the top you could see all aruond and over into Gutemala. IN the afternoon, we trekked through the rainforest to a mayan cave at the top. Once in side the cave there were lots of mayan artifacts still in there original places, it was quite odd being in a cave knowing that hundreds and hundreds of years ago people used it in their lives. It was very hot and sticky after coming back down the hill. We all went for a swim in the waterfall to cool off.

28th July Mountain Pine ridge was our destination today, we thought there would lots more walking up hills from the name! but there wasnt it was quite flat! We took in the sites and visited another cave, where we bumped in to a Miss Rainforest photo shoot for a competition, all our girls found it amusing that the models we climbing around rocks in bikinis and high heels!!! hehehe! After we went to swim in another waterfall and relax, We had a picnic on the rocks and swam some more before heading to Linda and Lenny's house they run the Belize Explorer Tour company, for a nice traditional belizean dinner cooked by linda's mum.

29th July today was Lauren C's birthday, all the girls signed a birthday card and got some small presents. We spent the day at a butterfly farm and learning how caterpillars change into butterflys, there were even caterpillars at the different stages of changing for us to see. We went to another hotel in the afternoon to go swimming in their pool. In the evening after dinner the girls threw Lauren a suprise party for her birthday and our guide got an Oreo Birthday cake.

30th July Today we transfered to Belize zoo, before we did that we went to an Iguana Sanctuary near where we were staying. All the girls got to hold and fed them and had them sat on their heads. Once we arrived at Belize Zoo Education Centre we were taken for a tour of the zoo, it was very different to an english zoo as the animals we alot closer and we got to fed some of them including parrots, monkeys, crocodiles, puma and a young Jaguar called Junior. Tonight was also ourfirst night with no air conditioning as we had been very spoilt by having it everynight.

31st July We transferred to Caye Caulker today by water taxi, it is a little island about 1hour off the main land. With beautiful white beaches and blue sea it was perfect to relax for a few days after lots of adventurous activities. We arrived and checked in at our hotel, then headed straight to the beach to for a dip in the warm sea. We had a lovely dinner on the beach front before heading back to the hotel for the night.

1st August Today we went snorkelling on the reef about 20mins from the island, seeing the reef wildlife up close was amazing. We were taken to 3 different spots along the reef, in one place we even saw a sea turtle! the last place was called Shark and sting ray alley we didnt see any sharks but the sting rays were over 1 metre accross, one had a really tiny baby shark swimming with it though. As it was our last night on the island we went to a nice restaurant for a meal and the girls then all went shopping in the markets, some even got their hair braided!

2nd August We started our journey back to mexico City today to get to Our Cabana on the 3rd.