On the 11th June we caught the 6:30am ferry from Caye Caulker back to the mainland and then a bus heading south. I (Simon) remember thinking that we had actually started going south - the correct direction to South America. We had missed the bus to Hopkins so we got dropped on the side of the road at the turn off and after 10 minutes or so were able to hitch a lift the last few miles into town with our new friend Diane who we met on the bus. We found it difficul...

We took the local bus from San Ignacio to Belize City then had a very hot walk to the dock to catch a boat to the island of Caye Caulker which is also very hot but with a strong breeze to cool it down a bit fortunately. It's really beautiful and chilled out here and seems quite quiet, probably because it is! (It's low season.) We've been staying in a hut on stilts which, while being quite basic and 'weathered' as Lonely Planet describes it, is right on the sea f...

We got the local bus from Flores to the Belize border and crossed over to the Belize side on foot after answering a few customer service questions about how we enjoyed our stay in Guatemala. Katy was flagging so we caught a 10 mile taxi ride from the border to our hostel in San Ignacio. As Katy was still recovering we decided to have a 'slow' day looking around the town. The next day we walked to a Mayan ruin just outside of town called Cahal Pech - it was muc...