Belize

And so it became time to leave the touristy Playa del Carmen and head of the the carribean pearl of Central America, Belize. Or to be even more specific, Caye Caulker. Belize is a former British colony, gained its independence in the 50's I think and is a totally cool place. It's more like how I would imagine Jamaica than Central America. Lots of Rastas, everyone speaks english in the notorious Jamaica style (arright man?tooooootally cooool) and its a really kick back place. No stress, everyone is friendly and its all just grooovy man. After a days travel, we finally arrived at Caye Caucker which was exactly like I dreamed Isla Mujeres would be like. Laid back, tourists but alot of backpackers and bbqs on the beach. It's a small island, takes about 20 minutes to go across it but there is a bakery and that all you really need. And of course, DIVING!
We headed of to the closest diveing shop, booked us up and in the morning headed off to Caye Chapel, with a couple of divers and two tanks each. Great fun. Although I got rather seasick on the way there. everything was really awesome. The reefs were a bit boring (mainly brown coral) and the visibility was only 15 meters due to the winds but there was lots of fish life, Blue angel fish, squids and all kind of stuff. And finally we got to put in some dives in our logbooks that were not instructiondives. During the evenings we drank belizian beer (far better than anything Mexico had to offer) and ate fish that was caught the same day. Good stuff. But I kind of miss cooking my own food. It was cheaper alhough I must confess it's good to have great hot meal that aren't that expensive.
Anyway. We left Caye Caulker and headed off to the next spot. San Ignasio. After a day of travel in an old New Jersey school bus (gotta love it) we arrived at this small town like smack in the jungle (well almost, the hotel we are staying at definetly is). The hotel is an environmental hotel which mean compost toilets, and solar heated showers. We have trees as far as the eye can see and during the day we can enjoy a refreshing game of frisbee golf on the nine hole course. Quite difficult actually.
Oh well. It's all good right now. I was so tired of beach towns its actually quite refreshing to be somewhere inland with jungle and less tourists. Belize is just wonderful! Unbelizable!
Peace y'all