Another very lengthy day (15 hours!) of travel took us over the border between Belize and Mexico, and dropped us straight into Tulum, Mexico. Whumph. And just like that, I was torn away from Belize, and thrown back into land of tacos and sombreros. Which, if it has to be done, Tulum is probably one of the least painful ways to go about it. Whilst arriving as the sun set and the mosquitoes started to gnaw on any limbs which remained uncovered, Tulum was quite ...

'Welcome to Caye Caulker - Paradise'. Music to my ears. A skinny island a couple of kilometres long, free from cars and their fumes and with transport instead taking the form of golf carts and rickety bikes, CC was hit by a hurricane in the sixties, leaving a split which now conveniently provides the perfect place for ignoring all sunbathing advice, and catching some serious rays. And, if less inclined to laziness, hitting bright blue water with your snorkel o...

I knew I was going to like this Caribbean country the moment I read the Lonely Planet introduction: 'This tiny nation is so laid back it's almost comatose.' So it might not come as a great surprise then that upon my arrival in this laid back land, my attitude towards my blog became pretty immediately Belizean too, ie. it might take 'a while'. But this made it the perfect place for our travelling team of four to wind down from over twelve days of manic, rather e...

Livingston - where you are greeted off your riverboat by rastamen murmuring ´Welcome to Ganja Paradise´ - is a rather surreal town right on the tip of Guatemala, which offers a bridge between hispanic-indo Guatemala, and Caribbean Belize. Early on, however, I managed to unwittingly annoy a local hustler, who then made the rest of our (thankfully one afternoon) stay absolutely miserable, and bordering on a little scary, sitting near us and mouthing off about ...

Flurry of blog entries now due...my writing duties have been neglected in favour of sun, sea and sand. Hmm...winding my memory back 2 weeks is a tough thing, I think the gears are a little rusty from the sun, sand and salt! Ah! Got it! Tikal, Guatemala. Home of impressive ruins amidst thronging green rainforest jungle. Picture The Jungle Book, only about a century later, and rather than all of the monkeys singing in the trees, lots of tourists clutching...