After one night in Placencia we had to be up early to catch the 6am bus to our final stop in Belize, San Ignacio as it was the only direct non stopping service a day. We caught the bus but it ended up being a local bus which meant massive overcrowding (3 people sharing 2 seats meant a seriously numb bum at the end), it stopping EVERYWHERE and having to change buses at the capital Belmopan! The buses are actually ex school buses from the USA (basically when they&#...

So picking up from where Sophie left off, early the next morning we boarded the Ragga Empress, a lovely catamaran for the three day trip down the coast to Placencia. The boat stays inside the Belize reef for the entire journey which meant plenty of snorkel stops, lots of little islands and cayes to check out and more fresh fish than we could possibly eat for dinner. The Belizean reef is second only in size to the Great Barrier Reef in Australia and the locals are...

So after a 3.5 hour boat trip from southern Mexico we pulled into Caye Caulker, a small Belizean island in the Caribbean sea (so small it won't even pick it up as a place on this blog....San Pedro is another island!). The sun had already set but I knew I loved this place already as from the boat all I could see were lots of fairy lights on small bars and restaurants lining the water's edge (I love a good fairy light, as you might have worked out from our ...