Reluctantly, we had to leave Belize today to make our way back up to Mexico. It has been an amazing country to visit so we were pretty sad to leaving. We rode the 'chicken bus' the three hours to Corozal on the Belize border, which only cost £2 (I still can't believe how cheap and efficient public transport is, even after a month of being here!) We had to get off the bus twice: once to leave Belize, and once to enter Mexico. Going through Mexican customs, you ...

Yesterday we started our way back up from Guatemala to Belize. We booked a transfer with a tour company for the four and a half hour journey, as it was much quicker and comfier than the local buses. Well, it should have been, but I was dying for a wee when we got on the bus at 7.30am, but there wasn't a toilet until after we had got through Belizean customs at 11am, so it was a pretty uncomfortable first half of the journey for me! We were headed to Orange Walk:...

We set our alarms at 3.30am for 4.30 pick up from our hotel to see the sunrise at Tikal National Park and Archaeological Site. We had been told that this is the best time to go, as it is cooler and less crowded, which increases your chances of seeing the local wildlife. Last night we had realised that for the last few days we had been going through the wrong door to our hotel: instead of going through the customer entrance we had been going through the family e...

Our next stop on the trip was going to be Dangriga in Southern Belize, so that we could see the local celebrations for Garifuna Settlement Day. However, as it was a Public Holiday, we thought that a lot of the hotels would be booked up by locals, so we decided to go elsewhere. We discovered that it was really easy to cross the border into Guatemala from Belize, so we decided on here for our next stop. We were pretty excited about visiting another country, making ...

Today we took the public bus to Belize Zoo, as we were advised that it was the best way to get there by a friendly taxi driver. That's how nice people are in Belize: even though he was a taxi driver he told us about the bus! It only cost £4 each for the return two hour journey on a Blue Bird bus. The conductor showed us where to get off on the main highway, which was right opposite the zoo's entrance. Belize Zoo was started in 1983, after filming of a nature do...