Sunday, January 9, 2011

Belize~ Days 5-6

We arrived in the boarder town of Corozal late at night, we didn't know where else to stay. So we stayed at the hotel above. I would not recommend it.....enough said. Also in the pic is our rental car that survived the speed bumps. :)

We boarded the first flight that morning and enjoyed the 20 minute flight to San Pedro.

The air strip is in the middle of the island, which makes it right in the center of town.

Their luggage carts!

I loved the sign for Baggage Claim below! I was taking a pic and a guy said, "You like it? It was my idea." SO GREAT!

At the airport!



We knew our hotel was only a few miles away, so we skipped the $6 taxi and decided to throw on our back packs and walk. We asked someone where a bike rental shop was (our first mistake). We walked a mile north to the shop and decided maybe it would be better to just rent them at our hotel. Sooooooo we went to beach, had an amazing breakfast of fry jacks, eggs, and fresh grapefruit juice. By the time we got done eating it was about 10:00am. We were so excited to be on the beach that we decided to walk in the sand to our hotel. Whenever we would talk to someone, they would ask if we wanted them to get us a taxi. We kept saying, "we're fine, it's not that far". They would look at us like we were crazy. We only walked about 4 miles since leaving the airport, but with all we packed for 10 days on our backs and walking in the sand, it took us much longer than expected. By the time we finally got to our hotel, we were hot, sweaty, and tired. We changed right into our swim suits and jumped in the ocean!!

In Mexico we didn't see any conch shells, but in Belize they were not hard to find. Conch is a main seafood there. I still couldn't bring myself to order it. When we went out to eat, I would get the shrimp ceviche (which by the way, was SOOO good! We have been making it since we got home) instead of the conch ceviche. In the pic below is one I found. Billy took a pic of one coming out of its shell for the boys..... gross!


We relaxed the first day! I will tell you about the rest of Belize in the next post! Overall, we had FUN, FUN, FUN!!

1 comments:

Artesanías OJITOS said...

Que bellos paisajes!...
ojala algun día puedan conocer CHILE, también tenemos paisajes hermosos...
Me llamo Alejandra y pasaba por tu blog sin querer.
soy nueva en estos blog, por eso ando mirando.