Today We Were In Belize
Filed Under (Vacations) by Cynthia on Oct 30, 2008 6:48 pm
Tagged Under : Cruise, Vacations
And today we had a trip to Belize. I’m tired… I’m just about ready to go home and snuggle with the husband and the dogs. Belize City was not very impressive. Very poor, and dirty, and, unfortunately, flooded. Our excursion of cave tubing and a zip line were cancelled so our tour guide drove us around the city a bit and then to a Mayan Ruins.
They were very interesting, and the guide did a good job of telling us all about them. It was called Altun Ha. Above is the three of us on top of one of the temples.
They were surrounded by forest which was very pretty, too. Though we did not go very far into the rain forest.
On the way back from the ruins I tried to snap some pictures of the homes around Belize City. As I said, the city seemed dirty, there was trash everywhere. And a great deal was flooded, here is only one of the homes we saw that was surrounded by, and invaded by, water. The tour guide drove like a maniac back to the dock… which scared me a bit but I had to just not look. Driving in these countries, Mexico too, can be quite scary.
The best part, for me, was talking to a lady who has been living in Belize for the last 14 years and she’s one of the people in charge of the Belize Humane Society and Animal Shelter. The Shelter looked really nice, better than many of the shelters up in the States. I bought a t-shirt to benefit their cause, and I hope to mail them some of our old collars and things from our old foster dogs that we just don’t use anymore.
Their website is http://www.belizehumanesociety.org … I hope I got that right. Since I’m using blog desk to blog this I probably won’t check the URL. But I will when I get home.
After chatting with the lady doing the animal rescue we caught the last tender back (okay it probably wasn’t the last tender) to the ship. The views from outside our balcony were very pretty… though a bit hazy. It looks like it might rain again. We don’t know what we will be able to do tomorrow in Izla Roatan off Honduras. We’ll see… we have a catamaran scheduled, and a park. I hope to take the camera with and get some nice shots.
Here is me on the patio. The water is very pretty, a light blue. As we were motoring out of the Belize waters they changed from this light blue to a darker blue, probably as we went to deeper waters.
I’m tired, headed to bed… again I kinda am ready to go home now. Snuggle in my own bed and spend time with my wonderful husband and pups.
Good night.
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Interesting that even on the cruise, you’re running into animal rescue people! LOL Guess we’re everywhere. Sad that we’re in need everywhere. The ruins in the background of the one picture look really cool!
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