San Ignacio - Caye Caulker

San Ignacio was a place I really didn’t know much about but there was an abundance of activities to keep me entertained, from caving, to white-water rafting, to floating down the river on a tyre tube! Some of the group went and did the caving and they said it was an amazing experienced - they got to see the untouched Mayan antiquities. I decided to take the easy option and float down the river in a tyre tube. This gave me the afternoon back at the hotel sitting around the swimming pool, and time to walk around this cute little town. The biggest thing I noticed was that everyone around me was speaking English, and having been in Central America for a week, it was nice to finally be able to communicate in my own language!

The best thing about being in Belize was that our next stop was Caye Caulker, and I needed a beach holiday and I wanted to go diving! I stepped off the water taxi onto the pure white sand streets – or were they the beaches? I couldn’t tell the difference. The welcome sign said “Welcome to Caye Caulker, take it slow” and after reading that, I knew I had a couple of great days coming up. This place is all pastel painted weatherboards, black afro-Caribbean bodies, and it has a real Rastafarian Caribbean feel. We could do as little or as much as we liked. I never thought I’d see the day where I hugged a shark, or nursed a stingray, but I did both of these on my half day snorkelling trip! We also had plenty of time to snorkel three different sites. Love it – don’t want to leave!