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Breezing Down Belize
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The bus from Flores in Guatemala to Belize City involved another 5am start. Luckily it had both leg room and headrests so we could sleep to the border. Crossing was easy and the roads changed noticeably on the other side. There were less potholes signs marked speed bumps and speed limits. General order prevailed on the roads. No guns in sight either. We made the 10.30am ferry to Caye Caulker but


Friday 20th Jan Placencia to San Pedro Sula HondurasTodays boat ride was most definitely not for the faint hearted or for those susceptible to sea sickness. Imagine dropping your washing machine into a bath and it managing to float whilst still functioning properly and repeatedly bouncing up and down on it for 2 hours and you go a small way to getting the feel for it. Having arrived in Honduras

Placencia Belize
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Saturday 14th Jan Placencia BelizeA barnstorming day of weather again in the region of 30 degrees and it felt like an opportune moment to do a spot of sunbathing. Unfortunately we39d brought along a bottle of out of date suncream with us from a well meaning but probably forgetful family member who39d forgotten that the cream donated had been sat at the back of the cupboard for the past 20


We arrive at the ferry port having pissed off the taxi driver who tried to rip us off but we gave what we were willing to give and not a penny more. We get to the ferry tetminal to be informed we have to pay port fees and departure tax. Departure tax was always included in your flight but just our luck the rules changed for 2012 3 days before our flight so off we march to the bank to pay 300 pes


We took our first Belize bus from Belize City to San Ignacio which took 3 hours. The journey was a funny and also painful one the buses they use in Belize are the old American style ones and most are quite colourful as you would expect in Belize. The whole way we had music pumping in the bus with various reggae beats but after an hour we realised it was probably the same CD but on repeat. It was

Livingston to Belize
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Weds 11th Jan Rio Dulce to Livingston.An early exit from hotel bacteria and a long wait for the 1.30pm ferry to Livingston. It was certainly worth the wait though as we ventured down the Rio Dulce to take in the breath taking views along the way. The journey starts off with the crossing of a very large lake indeed before you find yourself deep in the jungle. As you near Livingston the canyons r


After leaving Chile I thought I had seen the back of my last nightbus for a while but apparently not as it was an 8hr one from Playa del Carmen to Belize City. It was ok but getting out the bus at 4am to go across the border isnt nice…when we did get there we found out via the locals that they has been a charge to enter the country put in place from the 1stJan but if you say you dont have

Belize
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Belize Il faut maintenant faire nos adieux nos amis qui nous organisent un party costum de dpart. Ce fut une superbe soire bien arrose. Merci a tous votre rencontre a chang notre vie. Le retour vers le Qubec commence par la rivire rio Dulce qui nous amne l39ocan. Ce beau paysage que nous revoyons nouveau est toujours aussi agrable voir. De retour en eau sal


Sadly today is the last day of our 28 day vacation to this beautiful country. As promised my last blog is going to be a summary of What We Learned About Belize specifically Ambergris Caye with a side trip to the Cayo District on the Mainland. First and foremost the People are what make this country and island paradise worth the trip. Never in our travels have we met friendlier people than in Be


Happy 2012 to all our blog readers We were greeted into Belize in English Spanish Creole Q39eqchi39 and several other Mayan languages. As we got off a somewhat overcrowded exAmerican yellow school bus in Orange Walk a nice gentleman with his wife and daughter ask us if we were looking for somewhere cheap to stay and offered us a ride to his friends hotel. He dropped us off and wished us


The Seattle Times reports that the husband of a cruise passenger filed a wrongful death suit Holland America Line in Seattleafter his wife was killed during a cruise sponsored snorkeling excursion.

The incident occurred when passengerDiana Mechling had just entered the waterfrom the excursion boatoff the coast of Belize to start snorkeling.The operatorput the vesselin reverse, and the propeller struck Ms.Mechling. According to the newspaper, her husband, Michael Mechling, was present onthe snorkeling vessel during the incident.Ms. Mechlingdied in a local hospital.

TheBelize-based operator of the snorkeling excursion, Cruise Solutions Belize Ltd., was also named in the lawsuit.

We reported on this tragedy last February shortly after the incident occurred. You can read the account here.

A local newspaper in Belize, 7 News Belize,reported in February thatPort Authority Belize concluded its investigation into matter and found that the Captain of the boat Reef Rocket, Martine Manuel Pariente was negligent. The Port Authority has decided to charge the cruise operator with negligently causing loss of life, and has suspended his captain’s license.

The passenger’sfamily can now expect the Belize excursioncompany to deny that it is subject to jurisdictionin the United States, as it has done in other cases where cruise passengers are injured during cruise excursions.

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Looking for some small-group travel planning advice from those in the FW community who have been to Belize, FW-style. We already have plane tickets to Belize City in the spring. The rest (lodging, travel within Belize, tours [ruins/caves/jungle/scuba/snorkel], meals) we’re comparing package deals vs. do-it-yourself … and this is where the thought came to me to check my w/ fellow FW folks.

Right now we’re going off of what limited info can be found via Google and TripAdvisor but there doesn’t seem to be a lot of discussion on the web from those who have been.

I’m looking for tips on great value all-inclusive tour+lodging deals or what to piece together to make a great Belize vacation on a budget.


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The biggest Earth Holes
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Sometimes our planet Earth scares us with something realy unusual and shoking. This is something you probably did not know about the Earth. These giant holes in the earth’s crust, created by nature or by human hands. Monticello Dam was constructed between 1953 and 1957. The dam is a medium concrete-arch dam with a structural height [...]


Delta Air Lines offers a $99 round-trip special to Belize City, Belize (one daily nonstop flight) on trips finished on or before Feb.


Belize memories float to mind like dream fragments. A few times I have caught myself thinking – did I really go there?


WELCOME TO THE SPECIAL OCEAN ISSUE — Movie star and guest editor Ben Stiller shares his love for the ocean and tips for eco-friendly living in this special issue. Stiller knows a healthy Earth depends on healthy water, and he suggests some easy ways to conserve water at home, including turning off the faucet when brushing teeth and flushing only when necessary. “Kids have a lot of power,” says Stiller. “Adults pay attention when kids do things like recycle or conserve water, because it makes us see how much we should be doing ourselves.” Page 12.

SEND US YOUR OLD JEANS! — National Geographic Kids is attempting to set its fourth Guinness World Record. We are asking readers to send in their worn-out jeans to help set the record for the world’s Largest Collection of Clothes to Recycle. After officials record the final tally, National Geographic Kids will donate the jeans to COTTON. FROM BLUE TO GREEN. This denim drive recycles jeans into UltraTouch insulation, which is used to help build houses in places that have been damaged by natural disasters. It takes about 500 pairs of jeans to recycle enough denim to insulate one average-size U.S. house. The drive already has one pair of celebrity jeans — guest editor Ben Stiller was determined to be the first person to donate! For where to send your jeans and weekly updates on the number of jeans collected, go online to kids.nationalgeographic.com. Page 7.

UNDERSEA SAFARI — Board an imaginary submarine and embark on an underwater safari with National Geographic Kids. From the Arctic Ocean to Antarctic waters, and everywhere in between, meet some of the marine creatures that call the world’s oceans home and learn fun facts about all kinds of sea life along the way. Page 14.

North Atlantic Ocean — Witness a bottlenose dolphin rescue; swim with flying fish and a school of 10 million herring; learn about an undersea ridge of mountains; and more.
Caribbean Sea — Snorkel in a colorful coral reef off the coast of Belize; spot a never-before-seen fish (researchers estimate some 4,000 species of ocean fish have yet to be discovered); look out for waterspouts and Portuguese man-of-wars; and more.
Indian Ocean — Cruise with a leatherback turtle, the champion swimmer of the turtle family; float along the shallows with a dugong; search for the 65 million-year-old coelacanth (SEE-lah-kanth); and more.
Western Australia — Swim with the world’s largest fish, the whale shark; learn about ECOCEAN, a conservation program that coordinates whale shark identification; look out for infantfish (one of the world’s smallest), blobfish and blue-ringed octopus; and more.
Antarctic Waters — Dart through frigid waters with emperor penguins; find huge sea spiders; dodge giant icebergs; and more.
North Pacific Ocean — Bob above kelp forests with sea otters; explore the Mariana Trench, believed to be the deepest spot in any ocean; check out the tiny Pacific seahorse and the snakelike moray eel; and more.
Arctic Ocean — Listen to the mysterious, birdlike songs of beluga whales; swim with “sea angels” and walruses; and more.

National Geographic Kids, a multitopic, photo-driven magazine for 6- to 14-year-olds, empowers its readers by making it fun to learn about the world. Its numerous industry awards include Periodical of the Year in 2005 and 2006 from the Association of Educational Publishers. Published 10 times a year, National Geographic Kids has a circulation of 1.2 million and is available by subscription for $19.95 a year and on newsstands for $4.99 a copy. Its Web site is at kids.nationalgeographic.com.

This Trafficking Is Nuts
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By now the only people who have not heard about the undercover video reports that expose the radical housing and election fraud group ACORN as human trafficking enablers are those who limit their news consumption to the formerly mainstream media. That is few.

The rest know about the damning evidence captured by activists James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, who (as of this writing) have shared via the new Big Government website (has one ever seen a more splashy debut?) the criminal intentions of ACORN tax and housing specialists in Baltimore, Washington, Brooklyn and San Bernardino, Calif.

There’s plenty to nauseate taxpayers who, according to a Washington Examiner analysis, have seen $53 million in federal funds flow to the organization and its affiliates since 1994. Nudging the ACORN employees into territory with which they seemed all-too-comfortable, James and Hannah requested help obtaining a home for their brothel while seeking advice on how to deceive the government, avoid paying taxes, hide their illegal business, file false documents, violate campaign finance laws, and likely a host of other felonies.

That list is an infuriating peek into where the mind of a publicly funded crook would go. As elicited by the “pimp and the prostitute,” the ACORNers came off as routine, wink-and-a-nod corruption condoners, if not perpetrators.

Then you get to the child sex trafficking. Did James and Hannah know something ahead of time about the depths of these sick minds? Convicted predators are unacceptable even among their fellow prisoners, often getting beat up or killed behind bars. But the ACORN workers acted as if sexual abuse of kids was just another hurdle to overcome for their potential clients.

To refresh, after James and Hannah recorded a stupefying amount of desire to aid and abet, they posited the following at the Baltimore ACORN office:

James: Well here is the problem: Not only does Kenya (Hannah) have her business, do her thing, but she works with girls who are like 14, 15.

Kenya (Hannah): Well there are like 13 girls from El Salvador that I have kind of gotten wind on the street that they are coming and I have let the right people know that I am interested in taking care of them and getting them used to the area and getting them used to society.

Shira (ACORN worker): That you keep to yourself.

Later came more advice to keep the prostitution ring quiet:

Shira: No, no, no, no, you don’t bring that up. [Kenya/Hannah] is purchasing a house. Do not. She is buying a house to live ina|.

James: We understand.

Kenya: Okay no phones, no El Salvadorian girlsa|

Shira: No nothing.

James: Well they still exist but you just don’t talk about ita|.

Shira: That is between you and whatever. What ever you do you do not you do not discuss ita|

Similar scenarios played out during the duo’s visits to the other ACORN offices. How does the Obama Administration, the top beneficiary of ACORN’s efforts over the years, feel about this? Here’s what Secretary of State Hillary Clinton wrote in a Washington Post op-ed upon the June release of the State Department’s 2009 Trafficking in Persons report:

To some, human trafficking may seem like a problem limited to other parts of the world. In fact, it occurs in every country, including the United States, and we have a responsibility to fight it just as others do. The destructive effects of trafficking have an impact on all of us. Trafficking weakens legitimate economies, breaks up families, fuels violence, threatens public health and safety, and shreds the social fabric that is necessary for progress. It undermines our long-term efforts to promote peace and prosperity worldwide. And it is an affront to our values and our commitment to human rights.

The Obama administration views the fight against human trafficking, at home and abroad, as an important priority on our foreign policy agenda. The United States funds 140 anti-trafficking programs in nearly 70 countries, as well as 42 domestic task forces that bring state and local authorities together with nongovernmental organizations to combat trafficking.

How ironic: activity condoned by ACORN contracts human rights. Meanwhile, the annual TIP report assesses each nation’s efforts to combat trafficking and assigns grades based on their laws, enforcement, successes and failures. In his introduction to this year’s report, Ambassador Luis CdeBaca wrote:

Sadly, there are thousands who are trapped in various forms of enslavement, here in our countrya|oftentimes young women who are caught up in prostitution. So, we’ve got to give prosecutors the tools to crack down on these human trafficking networksa|.It is a debasement of our common humanity, whenever we see something like that taking place.

What does the TIP report say about the country invoked by James and Hannah?

El Salvador is a source, transit, and destination country for women and children trafficked for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation and forced labor. Most victims are Salvadoran women and girls trafficked within the country from rural to urban areas for commercial sexual exploitationa|. Salvadorans have been trafficked to Guatemala, Mexico, Belize, the United States, Spain, and Italy, for commercial sexual exploitation.

The State Department verifies the activity is occurring, and the rotten ACORN enables it. Yesterday House Republican leaders called upon President Obama to halt all funding and break government ties with ACORN. Considering their radical propensity to weaken civil society and undermine national security, that and a cruise ship to Gitmo sound commensurate for their behavior.


Grand Cayman is another port where you have to tender from the ship and take a smaller boat to shore but its not nearly as far of a trip as the 5 miles in Belize. Wed looked into a few excursions but decided on booking through the ship. Jason wanted to snorkel and we knew the thing to do was go to the Stingray City Sandbar too. I think our excursion was called Coral Ga


travel and leisure 100 tripsIf you are planning your spring and summer travel, we’ve got a great book for you, the fifth edition of Travel + Leisure’s 100 Greatest Trips book. This annual enterprise compiled by the editors of Travel + Leisure, is a compendium of 100 getaways to destinations around the world. The book is stuffed with more than 350 pictures from the magazine’s photographers as well as mini-guides to each destination with insider tips on hotels, resorts, restaurants, shops, nightlife, and must-see spots.

The 100 featured trips cover a range of destinations and themes including culinary tours in Italy, Hong Kong, California, and New Zealand; shopping expeditions in Paris, Kyoto, New York City, and Marrakesh; beach escapes in Belize, the Bahamas, Zanzibar, and Maine and arts and culture trips in Barcelona, Beijing, Las Vegas, and Lisbon. It’s like having a stack of fantastic travel magazines all in one book; it just begs for a quiet weekend afternoon, a cup of warm tea and time to curl up in a chair and dream away.

The book is available now in hardcover for $34.95 at www.TravelandLeisure.com/books and in softcover for $19.95 but we’ve got one hard copy to give away here on the site to a commenter chosen at random.

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