28th July 2009

Today was more relaxed, we were driven up to the Mountain Pine Ridge to take in all the sights and one huge cave.

While we walking around we bumped in to a Miss Rainforest calender photoshoot, it made the girls laugh that the models we climbing on top of rocks in high heels!

In the afternoon we went swimming at Rio on Pools for a few hours. We had a nice time relaxing and taking break from sight seeing.
In the evening we had a traditional Belizean meal cooked by Linda's mum at their restaurant.

27th July 2009

oday we explored the Mayan Ruins of Xunantunich. To get there we hand to cross the river by ferry that was cranked by hand, a few of the girls took turns in having a go at this.

The ruins were huge and really impressive to still be there in reasonable condition after so many hundreds of years.

It was hard work climbing to the top of the ruin, but it was worth it as the views were fantastic. We could see all around us for miles. Due to the bad weather over the few days before we arrived the river was rising fast so we had to get down from the top and leave quickly as the ferry would be closing shortly.

In the afternoon we were meant to go canoeing to some mayan caves but it was cancelled due to the height of the rivers. So we went to a dry cave instead, this meant we got to trek through some jungle before reaching the entrance to the cave. It was very hot walking to the cave but well worth it.

After caving we all went swimming in a waterfall to cool off before heading back to out hotel and going out for dinner in the evening.

26th July 2009

This morning our Belizean driver, Carlos, picked us up from our hotel to take us to our accomodation in Belize. We had an interesting experience crossing the border as we had to carry all our bags accross while the van drove and met us on the other side.

The scenery changed so much once we entered Belize, it was soo green and lush, the weather wasn't great but it was still very warm.

We arrived at our accomodation in San Ignacio, we were very lucky to have air conditioning in the rooms. It was lovely and clean. There was also a toucan that lived here and was quite tame so the girls had fun feeding him.

We went out for a nice meal in the evening with our tour guide Gonzo. The food was delicious and there was lots of it too! After dinner we were lucky enough to see fire flys in the long grass.

25th July 2009

Due to the time difference the girls were awake at around 4am, so they sat in the lounge and watched a dvd. We had a lovely breakfast and then went on a city tour of Mexico City for the rest of the day. We saw lots of sights, ruins and traditional mayan dancing.

After the city tour we transferred back to the airport to catch our flight to Chetumal. This a town on the border of Mexico and Belize. Our hotel was lovely and in the evening we had our first tropical storm.

24th July 2009

Our wake up call was at 4am so we could get the Heathrow Terminal 2 for 6am. Even though we had checked in online it took ages to hand our baggage over the que was soo long!

We had a short flight to Paris, where we then hand a 2 hour wait for the flight to Mexico City.

The girls took the time to catch up on some sleep or start writing their travel journals.

Our flight to Mexico City was very long and boring as there weren't any individual televisions, only a few along each aisel and all the films/tv shows were in french! Some girls caught up on yet more sleep!

We were met by a member of staff from Ticalli, the Girl Scout Hostel we were staying in that night. We arrived later than expected, so we got some dinner, showered then went to bed.

23rd July 2009

We all met at Hawkey Hall ready to leave for our 3 week adventure through Belize and Mexico.

Today was also Demi's birthday, so once we were all settled in our Hotel at Heathrow we had birthday cake to celebrate! All the other hotel guests in the restaurant joined us in singing happy birthday.

Everyone was really excited about starting our journey the following morning.