Today we escaped the dullness of Orange Walk for an excellent river/jungle tour to the runis in lamani. We turned up nice an early and met our tour-mates (an italian guy and German girl) and then jumped in a little speed boat. Thus commenced a 1.5hr speed boat trip covering around 27miles - We were racing along, leaning over when we went around corners and water going everywhere. We went past lush jungle, lots of birds, bats and howler monkeys hanging out in th...

So off we head off from the sleepy (ex-pat) town of Corozal to what is hopefully a more inspiring town of Orange Walk. The name brings up images of nice tree lined streets, pleasent buildings and a relaxed air....but no. Orange Walk was abit of a culture shock, not helped by our accommodation for the next two nights which resembled a prison block (see photo, and yes, it is actually worst inside than it looks outside!) We had a small cell, probably 2x4m with ba...

After paying an 'exit fee' (blatantly going in fat custom officers pocket), we left Mexico. So as not to end up arriving late at night in an unfamiliar Belize city, we decided to stop off at Corozal, a small town by the sea about an hour accross the border. After wandering around town getting some food, we picked up some new 'friends' who, although very entertaining, were very keen to try and get us to sample Belize's finest illicit substances and weren't rea...