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Deep South – Toledo District, Belize
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 29 August 2011
Poor Punta Gorda. Down at the southernmost tip of Belize, practically in Guatemala, it’s well past the destinations most travelers visit. But we’re not most visitors and Punta Gorda, the capital of the Toledo District, was definitely on our radar. Okay, mainly because we had to extend our visas and we were told that we could do that easily in Punta Gorda. Happily, that turned out to be true. The immigration office is located basically at the end of the road right at the small port. After a short wait our visas were extended for another 30 days for a fee of 50BZ (US$25) per person.
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Skulls and Stelae – Lubaantun & Nim Li Punit Archaeological Sites, Belize
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 26 August 2011
Lubaantun: home of the Crystal Skull (or not) Lubaantun means “place of the fallen stones” and there are a lot of those lying about. What differentiates the piles of stones at Lubaantun, a pre-Columbian Mayan city that dates back to 730 AD, from those at every other Mayan archaeological site is that many of the stones used at Lubaantun were actually cut to fit. That’s a fact. What may not be a fact is the legend of the Crystal Skull of Lubaantun. According to Frederick A.
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Extremely Natural – Belize Lodge & Excursions, Belize
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 24 August 2011
Belize is full of remote and wild places like La Milpa Field Station in the Rio Bravo Conservation Area in the northern jungles and Turneffe Atoll out in the impossibly blue ocean. But Belize Lodge & Excursions (BLE) has created a small collection of unique lodges that take visitors deep into the wilderness, and in rare form–no roads, resident jaguars, a private island and the best jungle bird-watching platform we’ve ever seen. Jaguar slumber party: Ballum Na Lodge No TVs. No phones. No Wi-Fi. Just jungle.
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The Serious Travelers
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 3 March 2011
Earlier today I was breakfasting at The Snack Shack in Punta Gorda (good food, loudest blender in Belize) when two ladies on fully loaded bicycles came by. Jules & Megan, of Perth, Australian, were roughly at the halfway point on their Alaska – Argentina Journey. Their bikes had wide (not quite mountain bike, but almost) tires, front and rear panniers, bags and camping gear.
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It’s A (Very) Small World
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 10 February 2011
So, we just spent two days at Cotton Tree Lodge in southern Belize near Punta Gorda (we will be telling you more about Cotton Tree’s big plans for chocolate in this region soon). While at Cotton Tree Lodge we met two funny, smart and interesting couples from Alaska–one of our favorite places on the planet. One of them, Rick, looked a bit familiar to us but we didn’t think too much about it. Until… Rick mentioned that he and his wife have a cabin near Cantwell, Alaska.
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The Tragic Side of Great Chocolate
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 30 December 2009
From the guideCotton Tree Chocolate (Front Street s of Texaco h8-noon, 1:30-5 m-f, 8-noon sat) Hands down the best chocolate confections available in the country. Chocolate covered mangos are out of this world, and the locally grown and roasted coffee is the strongest around. Free tours daily.
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Planes, speedboats, Automobiles....
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 23 December 2009
...Pickup trucks, school bus, horseback, jungle dory (that's a kind of canoe propelled with a pole by a man standing up, often named Christopher). I thought I'd used every feasible method of conveyance on this trip through Belize. I'd even been back on a completely different crank-powered ferry boat.But nothing prepared me for this lift on a 2-ton road grader speeding over (while simultaneously grading I suppose, whatever that means) the dirt road from Midway to Baranco, in the way-way south of Belize's Toledo district.
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