A Garifuna drumming lesson in the morning and at 11.30 we are ready to head to the Bocawina National Park for a mud hike. The park offers excellent wildlife observation and birding opportunities as well as access to several Mayan sites and beautiful waterfalls via a system of maintained trails through the forest. Mayan sites […]
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Hopkins: Garifuna
Hopkins looks like just survived a tornado, or a nuclear war, but the lonely planet talks about it like it is this fantastic place and in fact it is full of gringos… like us. With rain and cols there is not much to do other than look for a place to sleep and eat Garifuna’s […]
Placencia
On the road again, this time to Placencia, beach location famous for nightlife and relax. Before leaving Punta Gorda or PG, we encounter some Fort Collinians: Chelsea and Martin, the owners of Umami, super good food cart specializing in asian tacos. Finally we can actually see the HummingBird Highway… And here it is: Placencia. To […]
Red Bank, a Mayan Village
But Placencia wasn’t really our place, so we hop back on the Pathfinder to drive a little north, toward Hopkins. The weather sucks, and it is getting kind of cold too. On the way to Hopkins we stop to Red Bank, a small mayan village, to stretch our legs.
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Cooking and Drumming with Emmeth and Jill
This was such a great day. We just got back from a long boat tour and hungry like hell we head to Emmeth and Jill’s little farm in the jungle to cook some Creole food and drum together (with a lot of mosquito repellant…) Emmeth and Jill Peeling coconuts with a machete grinding coconut Digging […]
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Punta Gorda under the sea
If you happen to arrive to Punta Gorda you HAVE to stop at the Driftwood Cafe, run by Jill Burgess. Food is great (best fryjacks we had in Belize), awesome atmosphere and Jill is friendly and helpful. Jill is Emmeth Young’s Wife, So we were able to arrange a cooking/drumming lesson for the afternoon/night on Saturday. […]
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Vuelvo al Sur, como se vuelve siempre al amor
We rented a car, an old, slightly beat-up Pathfinder, and we are ready to drive south. Direction: Punta Gorda with the idea of doing some snorkeling and mostly drumming with Emmeth Young, a Maroon Creole drummer very famous in Belize. Today it looks like we are in Brianza, so the great scenic drive through the […]
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Belize City, Traveler Rhum
Today the weather is not ideal, but still warm. We decided to hang out in Belize city. First, we had lunch at the Bird’s Isle (conch soup and grilled fish…yum!) and then paid a visit to the Travelers Liquor Company. We did the whole tour and tasted the fantastic rhum production, a real hidden gem World […]
Escaping the snow
We have a very tight schedule to get to Belize: Denver, Boston, New York and Belize City (traveling with miles…). The snow storm is been trying to catch us, but we’ve been lucky and faster than that. We landed in Belize City, and it is warm and sunny, like it should (it is not going […]
