Going to Belize in january!! Any suggestions on must sees?

[toxic111]

Book an appointment with the Public Health Nurse, they will give you the information on which shots etc you need. In most cases they can give you the shots as well.

[intarsiabox]

Hepatitis shots are over a 6 month period to get all the doses and be fully protected under the standard time line. You can ask to have a rapid dose schedule which can be done in 3-4 weeks time frame. Belize is considered an intermediate/high risk area, so make sure you get the shots.

[Reef_Geek]

Are you excited yet?

I'm looking at going with my wife in late 2013.

Here's what we're researching:

Fly Air Canada/United on a Saturday 6:40am departure, 1:20 layover in Houston, Belize City by 3pm.

Return United/Air Canada on a Saturday 12:20pm departure, 3 hr layover in Houston, back to Calgary after 9pm. (flights found on Expedia.ca)

Week 1, stay on mainland, perhaps at Almond Beach Resort.

http://www.almondbeachbelize.com/

TripAdvisor reviews and guest photos
http://expediaca.tripadvisor.com/Hot...k.html#REVIEWS

Check-out on the Saturday mid way, go get picked up by the another resort.

Week 2, stay on one of the atolls, at Turneffe Island Resort. We wouldn't want to stay on an island the whole time without seeing the real mainland Belize.

http://www.turnefferesort.com/

TripAdvisor reviews and guest photos
http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Revi...ize_Cayes.html

Have a good trip! Make sure you take lots of pictures. Keep your ears open about anything you hear on these places, if you don't mind! Thanks!

Looking forward to hearing about your trip, and what activities you enjoyed!

[Snappy]

Belize is very beautiful but very 3rd world and poverty stricken. Pretty well everyone speaks english - it used to be called British Honduras.

An absolute must see in Belize -
Jungle river & Lamanai ruins tour - is a MUST SEE!

If diving, anywhere along the barrier reef on the Ambergris Caye side.
I also recommend the "Blue Hole" - it's a full day excersion but well worth it - you can do a 3 tank dive on the trip.
I can give you dive shop recommendations and a few other tips as well if you want to give me a call.

[Coralgurl]

Originally Posted by Reef_Geek

Are you excited yet?

I'm looking at going with my wife in late 2013.

Here's what we're researching:

Fly Air Canada/United on a Saturday 6:40am departure, 1:20 layover in Houston, Belize City by 3pm.

Return United/Air Canada on a Saturday 12:20pm departure, 3 hr layover in Houston, back to Calgary after 9pm. (flights found on Expedia.ca)

Week 1, stay on mainland, perhaps at Almond Beach Resort.

http://www.almondbeachbelize.com/

TripAdvisor reviews and guest photos
http://expediaca.tripadvisor.com/Hot...k.html#REVIEWS

Check-out on the Saturday mid way, go get picked up by the another resort.

Week 2, stay on one of the atolls, at Turneffe Island Resort. We wouldn't want to stay on an island the whole time without seeing the real mainland Belize.

http://www.turnefferesort.com/

TripAdvisor reviews and guest photos
http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Revi...ize_Cayes.html

Have a good trip! Make sure you take lots of pictures. Keep your ears open about anything you hear on these places, if you don't mind! Thanks!

Looking forward to hearing about your trip, and what activities you enjoyed!

Hep A shots done, we start everything else at the end of this week for malaria, traveler's diahreaha (sp) ect. Jason's passport came in this past week, mine should be here this week, both of ours were expiring and needed renewing.

We have a direct flight to cancun, we'll stay the night there, then either catch a flight to Belize city or take the bus, havent decided yet. We picked up traveling backpacks on boxing day, still have to sit down and figure out our itinerary.

Still a couple of weeks till we go, will spend a couple of days on the cayes, then into the mountains for some river caving, ruins etc.

I'll post more once we figure out more details. Getting a little excited yes but still lots to do before we go.

Originally Posted by Snappy

Belize is very beautiful but very 3rd world and poverty stricken. Pretty well everyone speaks english - it used to be called British Honduras.

An absolute must see in Belize -
Jungle river & Lamanai ruins tour - is a MUST SEE!

If diving, anywhere along the barrier reef on the Ambergris Caye side.
I also recommend the "Blue Hole" - it's a full day excersion but well worth it - you can do a 3 tank dive on the trip.
I can give you dive shop recommendations and a few other tips as well if you want to give me a call.

Hi Greg, I don't think we'll be diving on this trip, just doing some snorkeling. We will likely head to the blue hole, thinking of a heli tour over it.

Hopefully we have some details figured out fairly quickly, it's only just over 2 weeks away.

[Snappy]

Originally Posted by Coralgurl

Hi Greg, I don't think we'll be diving on this trip, just doing some snorkeling. We will likely head to the blue hole, thinking of a heli tour over it.

Hopefully we have some details figured out fairly quickly, it's only just over 2 weeks away.

That is too bad you won't be diving but the snorkeling is good.
Lamanai is well worth a look.

[Reef_Geek]

came across these links in our research for must-do lists

http://www.chaacreek.com/belize-trav...-do-in-belize/

http://www.slickrock.com/belizethingstodo.html

http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractio...es-Belize.html

http://belizedragonfly.com/2011/03/b...do-activities/

Some things stand out more than others to me... for example, Glover's Reef looks far more interesting to me than the Belize Zoo... but the zoo gets so many mentions... I'll guess it's a function of accessibility more than anything else. Hope this helps.