Etapa numero dos...

Okay, now for the second leg of the trip. On Monday of our trip,
a guide acquired us at the Chateau Caribbean (French name,
Chinese owners, British/Caribbean colonial architecture) and
took us on the most adventurous portion of our trip. First, we
drove an hour to reach our destination: the rain forest. We saw
some interesting characters along the way, including some
cyclists training for the Tour de Belize and a creature of strange dimensions consisting of two Belizeans, one bicycle, and an oversized truck tire.


After arriving at the rain forest, we strapped on our safety gear and went ZIPLINING!! It was awesome! We had people that had never even flown before the trip that were brave enough to try it! It was pretty fulfilling to see them thrive outside of their comfort zones.




After ziplining through the rain forest canopy, we indulged in a little cave tubing. It was nice to float along and marvel at the natural wonders. I wish I had gotten a picture of the tubing (camera+water=new camera) as well as a huge wasp dragging a TARANTULA across our path. We walked further and accepted the opportunity to eat termites. I know what your thinking, but they taste, not surprisingly, of wood and mint. After our activities, we stopped at a roadside bar with chicken wire for windows and ate the most indescribably good stewed chicken and rice and beans (Belizean national dish). Our guide ate like the wind, indicating to us that we should do the same in order to get to the Belize Zoo before it closed. The Zoo was great with many native animals to Belize present. I will just put in a few to give an idea of the bio-diversity...


















And many others including howler monkeys, a puma, a harpy eagle, etc., etc. After this day, we transferred over to Corozal Town, which is in the north part of the country. Before we got there, we had more amazing adventures, which I will present in the next post...

Back form Belize

So we went to Belize with a group from the College. It was seven students plus one instructor plus Jenny plus me. The instructor that went was a riot and had us laughing constantly. And of course, I was there with my soulmate, Jenny, with whom I could spend 24 hours a day, 7 days a week...

I know its probably past the statute of limitations for blogging about a trip, but I thought I would anyway. I will post for each city we visited. We left our town on the 27th of Feb. around 5 in the morning. After arriving in Atlanta, we hopped our flight down to Belize City and arrived at about 1:00. We cruised the town and marveled at the poverty and litter.

Past that, it was a unique, colorful experience which reminded me why there needed to be a man on the trip (I'm not intimidating but what they didn't know is that I get buckwild if necessary). In Belize City, the ethnographic background of most people is African, and the English Creole language they spoke could be heard everywhere.

We stayed at a nice place on the bay...

The Belize Museum was a nice attraction. The museum was a prison until 1993.

The museum held specimens displaying the biological and cultural marvels of Belize including Maya artifacts, an insect collection, and Belizean History.

We were able to find pretty good places to eat and shop and were happy to retire at night; that is until the party started at the park next door! Locals came and bumped rap music until about 1 in the morning. Jenny tried to run down there but I held her back. Anyway, after a couple of days there, we traveled north to Corozal Town but first we did some pretty amazing things along the way...