"Wad de gwaan?" - Blogabond

As soon as we entered Belize we could really feel the difference from all the other Central American countries. Very excitingly, they speak-a-de-engleesh!! (woo woo!) Well, kind of anyway, as we still had difficulty understanding the crazy creole. The caribbean vibe was really refreshing and everyone was very relaxed - we kept being told to slow down when we were walking too fast!! There were pretty much rastas on every corner smoking de ganja and enjoying life doing sweet fa. So, from the start we knew we were going to have a blissful few days (hence our rushing through other places to get to paradise!!) Just to make you jealous...we essentially spent our time here lazing on beautiful white sandy beaches looking out at the turquoise blue caribbean sea with reggae music playing in the background and a rum punch in hand.

Our first glimpse of paradise was in Placencia (a peninsula on the South coast) It was a really tiny little town, but with lots of charm. Most houses were wooden and on stilts looking out over the beach and we pretty much had a guest house all to ourselves and enjoyed our hammocks on the veranda (apart from the freaking giant, green, flying insects!) We were glad to catch this place in time because it seems like lots of Americans are going to swoop in to build themselves nice beachside holiday homes. Bad times! We got involved with the Creole cuisine (lots of yummy chicken, shrimp, fresh lobster, and coconut rice) and were determined to find some fresh coconut....so we enlisted the help of a local who climbed up and picked us some good uns and we can now say that we are expert coconut openers, well kind of. This resulted in a new found cocktail called crazy coconut float (coconut water, coconut rum, vanilla ice cream and ice), very delicious!!!

Our next hardship was having to hop on the water taxi over to the beautiful island of Caye Caulker (just off the Belize coast). This was slightly more tourist-y but we wanted to come to do some snorkling on the Belize barrier reef. (We shall move quickly on from the near stay at a bed bug infested hostel!) We had an amazing day out on the 'Ragga Queen' sail boat and once again were forced to eat yummy food (FYI shrimp ceviche is a must-try!) and drink yet more rum punch...jeez! The highlight of the day, was shark and ray alley and guess what...there were lots of stingrays and SHARKS!!! These were not quite as scary as we had feared as they were reef sharks and actually had quite cute faces, but we did have to be very brave every time we got in the water! Very excitingly we got to touch the sharks tummy (Coops' squeal as she did so frightened everyone else!!) and the rays fin, making sure we didn't get Steve Irwin'd at the same time!! Bets also sneakily touched a sea turtle that everyone else was admiring from afar! There were oodles of other pretty fishes and coral for us to see. We returned slightly pink in places from our day in the sun, but very happy.

More drinking was done (this time daiquiris) at the local reggae bar, with swings for seats and the barman insisting on teaching us tricks and then giving us 40% proof rum (wow!) and then we had a good boogy too....trying to stay away from the local perve who had decided to latch on to us! (And if one more person asks us "sisters...you two sisters?!?!" we will scream!)

Our holiday in a holiday sadly had to come to an end when we waved goodbye to paradise and headed back to the mainland to cross the border to Mehico!!

Coming up - WOW where did all these Americans come from? A walmart by the beach?! Enough said.*

Lots of love from Central America (not for much longer, we can´t believe how quick its gone!!!)

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coopsandbets on October 13, 2010 from San Cristobal, Mexico

from the travel blog: We are off to find the wizard!

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