Despite my COVID scare in San Ignacio, I had no other reason to believe I may have contracted it. I was feeling fine and healthy but made a mental promise to be safe, sanitize, and wear a mask. I said goodbye to all the new friends I had made and headed down to the bus …
As I was approaching the end of my travels in Belize, I decided to slow down and spend 4 nights in San Ignacio. Initially, I wanted to try and fit in a trip to the Tikal Mayan ruins in Guatemala, but the land border crossings in Belize were a bit of a pain. They require …
After a strange couple of days on the boat, I woke up in Hopkins, ready to explore the Belize mainland for the next week. I got up to make some tea and was greeted by a few of my friends that I had previously met on Caye Caulker: SP, Colin, and Luiana. Luiana mentioned they …
After a bumpy end to 2021, I slept surprisingly well with the help of an Ambien and woke up in my tent on Rendezvous Caye to a beautiful morning. We had breakfast on the island and got to packing up our tents. After losing an entire day of snorkeling the day before, the crew promised …
Sorry in advance for this ridiculously long story, but let’s dive into my horrible end to 2021 which was on par with, if not worse than, contracting norovirus last New Year’s Eve in La Cruz. After arriving back from the full-day snorkel trip with Raggamuffin, I stopped by the tour office to get briefed on …
After an incredible 4 nights at Itza Resort and 8 amazing dives, it was time to continue and explore the rest of Belize. After a two-hour, windy boat ride from the island, I arrived back in Belize City and caught a ferry to Caye Caulker. Most people, when they visit Belize, either stay on Caye …
My first full day at Itza Resort on the Lighthouse Reef Atoll in Belize was incredible and I still had two more days of diving to go. I had a hard time sleeping and was a bit nervous the night before diving The Great Blue Hole, mostly because of how deep we would descend. Being …
After two weeks of exploring the Yucatan Peninsula with Eitan and his family, I was headed next door to Belize. Eitan dropped me off at the bus station in Playa del Carmen and I took the bus to the Cancun airport. I would be flying the Belizean airline Tropic Air which flies out of the …
