Having overcome my claustrophobia yesterday, today we spent even more time in caves. We headed to Nohoch Che'en (Caves Branch) Archaeological reserve to spend the day cave tubing: floating along the river through various caves in an industrial sized rubber ring/inner tube. We booked with Vitalino Reyes, a local guide, whose company the books recommend as the most knowledgable about the cave branch. We met our guide, Vitalino Jr, son of the owner, and got into the...

This afternoon we visited the Iguana Conservation Programme at the San Ignacio Resort Hotel. £5 buys you a guided tour of the sanctuary, where you can feed and hold some of the iguanas. We met our guide, Eddie, and again it was just me and Matt on the tour! On entering the enclosure, we were amazed by how many iguanas they were and how massive they grew - up to 6 feet long! The largest they had was the mascot of the sanctuary, 'Gomez', who was bright orange as ...

Getting up bright and early, we went to meet our tour group to head out to Barton Creek Nature Reserve for a morning of cave canoeing. Well, I say 'group', but it turns out it was just me and Matt on our own private tour! We met our driver and our guide, Dora (the explorer) and clambered into the back of a battered old 4x4. It had more crack than windscreen: they obviously don't have Autoglass here in Belize. We drove through Santa Elena and out to the track for ...

After saying a sad goodbye to Caye Caulker and our hammocks, we headed off to our next destination: San Ignacio, a town in a jungly area on the opposite side of mainland Belize. All of the public buses in Belize are second-hand American school buses, like the Simpsons bus! We only paid about £2.70 each for the three hour journey, and about an hour in, a man got on the bus with a massive box of coconut and lemon pies selling them for 30p each! We had one each -...

Today I did something I never thought I would do: spent practically the whole day on a boat at sea. We booked a tour with a local company to do a bit of snorkelling off the Belize Barrier Reef, and to try and spot some West Indian manatees. There were only six of us on the trip altogether: us, a European couple in their thirties and an older couple from America. We met our guide, Salvador, who showed us to our transport at the end of a jetty. The boat was way sm...