It’s been less than 24 hours since landing in Belize, and already I am in heaven.
), a lovely new resort on quiet Caye Caulker , one of Belize’s more than 400 islands, we’d caught a short ferry the next morning over to relatively bustling San Pedro on Ambergris Caye. It’s a town filled with beach bars and golf carts, in what many call the dive-and-water-sports capital of Central America.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Calgary Herald, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
The Keel-billed toucan, Belize’s national bird, is just one of nearly 600 bird species found in this enchanting country. Photo, Valerie FortneyA word of warning for those drawn to Caye Caulker, one of the sleepiest towns in Belize’s outer islands: roots of mangrove trees dot its shorelines, making it less a hang-on-the-beach place and more a get-on-a-boat destination if you want to put in time swimming and snorkelling. But boy oh boy, is the boat trip ever worth it.
Getting around in such a postage-stamp-sized country is easy, thanks to a selection of small air carriers like Tropic Air that zip around its five different ecosystems, encompassing such varied terrain as mountains, savannah, rainforest jungle and ocean reef. The hard part was how to pack in so much each day without triggering exhaustion.Article content
The good people of Belize, numbering just over 400,000, are as diverse as their landscape, with the Maya, Kriol, , Garifuna and Mestizo cultures intermingling with later Belizeans, descendants of Indian and Chinese immigrants, along with a more recent influx of Mennonites. Oh, and don’t forget the Canadian and American snowbirds and expats who have flocked over recent years to beach towns like San Pedro and Placencia.
While I would have been perfectly content to devote the entire trip to snorkelling around the Mesoamerican Reef — second in size only to Australia’s Great Barrier Reef — my personal Belize 101 would require a few wardrobe and scenery changes.Article content Day and night, black howler monkeys release their otherworldly howls, while parrots, keel-billed toucans , tanagers and oversized hummingbirds hover above.
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