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Here, Kitty Kitty – Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 19 August 2011
The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary includes 200 square miles of protected land. Established in 1984 and made a sanctuary in 1990, it is the world’s first jaguar sanctuary. It’s now home to roughly 70 of the big cats along with many of their smaller kin including ocelot, jaguarundi and margay. Of course, we arrived at the sanctuary hoping to see a jaguar and we did our best to increase our chances of a sighting. First, we decided to camp in the sanctuary.
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Easter Weekend in Belize
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 22 April 2011
Image from www.stanncreek.comIt is Ten PM in Dangriga and the streets are alive with drumming and music. Down the street Garifuna men are drumming not too far from the Drums of our Fathers statue.
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Squatter in Jungle Luxury
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 19 January 2011
For reasons which I am too tired to even try to fathom I find myself a squatter in a luxurious mansion in the middle of the jungle, alone in a fully furnished two story three bedroom house in which nobody lives. Except for an armed guard who speaks no English called Jose and two Mayan Potlicker dogs, there is nobody around for at least a mile down a potholed road.
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Whale Shark Hunting – Hopkins, Belize
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 15 July 2010
If someone said to you “hey, the world’s most gigantic and elusive fish is pretty much guaranteed to show up at this spot on these days, all you have to do is jump in the water,” wouldn’t you jump? Decades ago fishermen in Belize started noticing giant creatures in the water around the full moons in the spring and early summer when local mullet snapper spawn off the southern coast. Not realizing that whale sharks, which can grow to 60 feet long, are neither whales nor sharks but toothless and harmless filter feeding fish, the fishermen were terrified.
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Belize Wilderness
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 30 January 2010
We stay a night in Dangriga, which is really a non-event. Val’s Place is a nice Hostel, but there is really nothing to do here. In the morning we move on and decide we want to get off the beaten path and find some real jungle in Belize. We stop to get a tank of [...]
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Belize Wilderness
Blog: The Road Chose Me - 50,000kms of ebb and flow - 30 January 2010
We stay a night in Dangriga, which is really a non-event. Val’s Place is a nice Hostel, but there is really nothing to do here. In the morning we move on and decide we want to get off the beaten path and find some real jungle in Belize. We stop to get a tank of [...]
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A visit to the Hot Sauce Factory
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 8 December 2009
Easily the best known name in Belize is that of Marie Sharp. It's a name constantly on tongues and passed across tables from Punta Gorda to Corozal, from the deepest jungles of Cayo to the Cayes of Glover Reef. For Marie Sharp is the creator of the Belize's most popular condiment, Marie Sharps Hot Sauce. The nation is not known as a culinary hot-spot.
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