today we visited the Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) cave with a local guide, Carlos. This pretty much blew us away and has been one of the most amazing things we´ve experienced so far. We were given some leaf, a natural probiotic to chew. Dave manfully took his down without a wince, but Emily had to supress some wretching and pray not to throw up and expose herself as the weak city girl she is. After a couple of miles walking through the jungle and wading through...

So we have been in San Ignacio town for the last few days. A town of around 18,000 people situated 10 miles from the western border to Guatemala. Its very hilly and tropical here, with a lively town and quite alot of travellers milling about (something we havent seen for a while) lots of nice places to eat, lots of beer drinking going on, and lots of nice friendly people. The weather has been generally very hot in the mornings, with some showers and thund...

So we arrived in San Ignacio after a long day of Chicken bus riding and we were worried that this place would be like Orange Walk. However we began to suspect that things might be better as we headed south-west through Belize and the landscape changed from flat grassy plains to forests, hills, mountains, rivers amazing views. We arrived in the town and it is lovely, with lots to do and see and very nice chilled out people. We arrived in our new accommodation c...

So today we got out of the random place that is Orange Walk and jumped on the bus to San ignacio. However to get to our destination, we required a transfer in Belize City. A city with a very bad reputation and generally not advisable to visit. So we turned up at a slightly dodgy bus station and asked around for the bus to San ignacio. People told us it will be a while and that they can give us a lift half way there in their car (not advisable!) . We brushed the...

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...