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Recreation and Water Sports in Placencia Village, Belize
Once you’ve settled in, Placencia tour operator Splash Dive offers numerous diving and snorkeling trips to the reef and cayes. Photo © Lebawit Lily Girma.
There’s no shortage of guide services in Placencia, where most tour operators offer service to all nearby destinations: Cockscomb Basin W
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Getting to and around Belize's Placencia Village
Serviced by two airlines, at last check, there were more than 20 daily flights in and out of Placencia’s airstrip. Photo © Richard Fritzson, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Getting There
There are a number of ways to travel the 100-plus miles between Placencia Village and Belize City.
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Options for Studying Abroad in Belize
Archaeology students benefit from access to Maya ruins, such as these at Altun Ha. Photo © Elaine, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
The College Consortium for International Studies (CCIS) offers semester and summer programs based out of San Ignacio in Cayo together with Galen University
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Glover's Reef Atoll in Southern Belize
Island Expeditions’ adventure camp site is on Glovers’ Reef Atoll. Photo © Lebawit Lily Girma.
The southernmost of Belize’s three atolls, Glover’s (named for a pirate, of course—John Glover) is an 80-square-mile, nearly continuous ring of brilliant coral, flanked on its southeastern curve by five
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Festivals and Events in Belize City
Carnival in Belize. Photo © Lebawit Lily Girma.
September is Belize’s golden month. For three weeks—from September 1 all the way through September 21 (Independence Day)—the city hops on one long party train to celebrate the country’s freedom from Great Britain in 1981. Along the highways, you
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Basic Kriol Phrases for Travelers to Belize
I was once told that you’re only a true Belizean if you speak Kriol. It’s the first thing you’ll hear when you arrive in Belize—the accent, the intonation, and the sentences that chop away at articles and verbs. Creole or Kriol is the lingua franca here. Like most patois tongues in the Caribbean,
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Bites and Stings in Belize
The long black spines of the sea urchin can pack a punch. Be careful! Photo © Sharife, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
Thousands of people dive in Belize’s Caribbean and hike its forests every day of the year without incident. The information on possible bites and stings is only to let
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Hurricanes in Belize and Historic Storms
Hurricane Keith hit Belize in October of 2000. Photo © Ian MacKenzie, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
The hurricane season in the Caribbean runs June 1–November 30. Historically, Belize hurricanes usually occur in October and November. The National Emergency Management Organization (NE
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Tropical Diseases in Belize: What are the risks?
Photo © DrFarouk, licensed Creative Commons Attribution.
The main tropical diseases in Belize are malaria, Chagas disease (also known as the kissing bug disease), dengue fever, and leishmaniasis. They are known as arthropod-borne diseases, which means they are diseases which can be transmitte
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The Best Beaches in Belize
Laughing Bird Caye National Park. Photo © Lebawit Lily Girma.
With a coastline along the Caribbean Sea and more than a dozen offshore sandy islands, Belize has enough variety on and off the mainland to satisfy the most avid beachcomber. The best stretches of beach are along Belize’s east and
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Where to Volunteer in Latin America
Choosing where to volunteer is as important as the type of volunteer work you want to do, and will probably require the same amount of research if not a little more. Encompassing 20 nations, 4 dependencies, 600 million people, and roughly 8 million square miles, Latin America is a big place with m
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Life as A Peace Corps Volunteer in Belize
Home to a diverse population and to a host of solid nonprofit organizations, Belize is a country in which volunteering opportunities abound. One of the most established programs is the Peace Corps, which has operated in Belize since 1962. Peace Corps volunteers are stationed throughout the country
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Diving and Snorkeling in Caye Caulker, Belize
The reef you see from Caulker’s eastern shore provides fantastic snorkeling and diving opportunities right in your front yard. Snorkeling can be as simple and cheap as renting masks and fins for US$5 per day from one of the tour operators (or bringing your own) and using them off almost any dock.
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Caye Caulker Beaches, Belize
Beaches on most of Caye Caulker are of the thin, hard variety—don’t expect to find a thick, soft, endless stretch of sand. Still, there’s sand to feel under your toes, and the ratio of crowds versus beach space is favorable, such that finding your own sandy plot of the island is an easy feat. And
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Boating, Sailing, and Fishing Off Ambergris Caye
Explore the Caribbean the way it was meant to be traveled: by sea. Old standby boats include the “old-school sailing trip” aboard the refurbished Rum Punch II (parked north of Cholo’s Bar, tel. 501/610-3240), operated by longtime resident and captain George Eiley, offering glass-bottom-boat snorke
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Where to Go in Belize's Northern Cayes
Once the favorite hideout and playground of pirates, the Northern Cayes are Belize’s greatest tourism draw, and with good reason: postcard-perfect islands, quick access to the Barrier Reef and Hol Chan Marine Reserve, a dizzying array of outdoor activities, and enough lodging, restaurants, and ent
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Diving Belize's Lighthouse Reef Atoll
The most easterly of Belize’s three atolls, Lighthouse Reef lies 50 miles southeast of Belize City. The 30-mile-long, 8-mile-wide lagoon is the location of the Blue Hole, a dive spot that was made famous by Jacques Cousteau and a favorite destination of dive boats from Belize City, Ambergris Caye,
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Romantic Rendezvous in the Belize Cayes
On the rise as a wedding and luxury honeymoon escape, Belize offers easy romance, but there are a few unique places and ways to experience the best of all its magic.
Toll bridge connecting San Pedro with north Ambergris Caye. Photo © Lebawit Lily Girma.
Romantic Lodging
Infinity pools, a beach, a
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Discover the Belize Cayes
On my first trip to Belize, I immediately hopped on a connecting flight to Ambergris Caye. As fate would have it, the plane was full and I was seated next to the pilot. In a matter of minutes, the cockpit views of Belize’s Caribbean coastline overshadowed my angst about flying in a puddle jumper.
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Where to See Marine Life in the Belize Cayes
Stretching 180 miles along Belize’s coast, from Bacalar Chico in the north all the way south to the Sapodilla Cayes, the Belize Barrier Reef continues to be a diving and snorkeling paradise. It’s also the most abundant section of the Mesoamerican Reef System, which extends from Mexico to Honduras
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