Angry Dee: Belize!

After we married in Playa del Carmen, my wife and I decided to go a little further south into the unspoiled land of Belize!! After researching flights to Belize, we decided to hire a van & driver to pick us up from our hotel in Playa and make the 5 hour journey across the border to Belize. We were fortunate enough to find this guy: http://www.gettransfers.com/ his name is George and their operation is small but efficient and the drivers were super rad! I think it cost us $250 each way (he drove us back into Mexico and up to Cancun Airport!)

Corozal, Belize main street

They picked us up at our hotel, drove us down to Chetumal on the Mexico/Belize border, helped us get over the border and dropped us off in Corozal, Belize where we had our first Belikan beer. Lemme tell you, it wasn't the last!! After our beers, we were off to the airstrip where we were to board our plane service by Tropic Air:

http://www.tropicair.com/

Maya Island Air transport to San Pedro

OR Maya Island Air http://www.mayaregional.com/ which cost us about $150.
They flew us from Corozal, Belize to the island of Ambergris Caye, San Pedro Belize. There we started our honeymoon at the number 1 resort on the Island called Xanadu Island Resort.

Living Room unit 2 Xanadu Island Resort

Bedroom 1

View from our deck at Xanadu Island Resort

http://www.xanaduresort-belize.com/

This is a great resort!! The staff were so helpful and friendly, you can use the kayaks, there's a pool, they have a little bar and on top of the full kitchen, you have a beach BBQ!! they even helped us book our tour to Lamanai.
During our stay in San Pedro we ate at some of the best restaurants I've ever been to. I love seafood and while you're on the island, you're going to eat it! Best cerviche I've ever had...ooooh and the conch fritters!! Damn!! Here are some of the restaurants we dined at:

Celi's Restaurant Ramon's Village Crazy Canuck's Bar Blue Iguana Grille
Ruby's Cafe

But my favorite place by far was THE JAMBEL JERK PIT.

Our bus. The driver loved Bob Marley.

While we were in San Pedro, we decided to keep exploring the Mayan Ruins. We've seen Chichen Itza, Coba and Tuluum, so our next adventure was to see the ruin of Lamanai which means "submerged crocodile". We went over to Belize city by boat and took another boat upriver. We stopped at a few villages along the way and even had to be transported by bus to get to the next boat!

Small bats on a tree!

Crocodile hanging out.

In all it was a great tour, our guides knew just about everything about the river and the wildlife that lives on it.

When we got the the site of Lamanai, we were surprised to have it all to ourselves.We spent hours just searching through the ruins. We saw howler monkeys, tarantulas and apparently there is a boa constrictor that hangs out there but alas, we never saw him.

After we spent our time, had our lunch and walked through the little museum it was time to go. Back on our boat to search for wildlife, drink some Beliken and high tail it back to our hotel!!

Our last expedition in San Pedro was to visit the tiny Caye Caulker. It's a small little island that was almost destroyed by a hurricane a few years ago and you can still see where it ripped through the island on aerial shots. After we discovered Caye Caulker, we decided that the next time we come to Belize, we're hopping the Cayes all the way down to Palencia!! If you wanna do some Caye hopping, here is a link:

http://raggamuffintours.com/overnight-sailing-2/