We've decided to hire a car for a couple of weeks in Mexico. Bus transport is excellent here but there are so many places we want to visit and a car will give us the freedom to stop off anywhere we please and give us more flexibility of choice of hotels. We booked the smallest and cheapest available but they've given us a free upgrade to a VW Gol as there were none of our choice avaliable so we are quite delighted and they allowed both of us to drive with no e...

Arrived in Mexico having crossed the border from Belize and spend two nights in Chetumal, where we visit a Mayan museum which was quite good but because I'd (Elaine) slipped on wet floor tiles in bathroom when trying to pick up wet floor mat , flying off into huge shower space banging my wrist ......I didn't feel like exploring further in heat with wrist now bandaged. ...how hard it seems to do things with only one arm...we head off next day and have a 4 hou...

After a stopover for one night in Corozal to try and arrange boat transfer to our next planned destination we discover no boats going across this short stretch of water and the only way to reach Cerros is by taxi!! A 90 minute journey which mid way involves crossing a wide river by a hand-cranked ferry system whereby passengers get out of the vehicles, the vehicles then drives onto wooden deck of a barge attached to either side of river by steel cables, passeng...

We had planned to return to the sandy island of Caye Caulker in the barrier Reef. It was our favourite places during our last visit to Belize. However after our earlier impromptu yacht experience to the south Belizean Cayes from Guatemala we have decided to miss out this leg of our current trip and spend more time in north of Belize and in Mexico. We catch the public bus from beside the zoo and head back into Belize City. Like all public buses in the cou...

From El Remate Guatemala , we travel across the border by bus to Belize. Discover on crossing border to Belize that there are no ATMs at the border contrary to what we were told by tour agent who sold us bus tickets and additionally, immigration regulations state that we must stay on the bus past our intended destination of Belize zoo and go direct to Belize city. i.e No one allowed to disembark between boder and Belize City. At Belize City we look for an ...