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The Monkeys Arse

Monday, November 21st, 2005

Just added some images to the previous entries so scroll back down to check them out.

After the celebration day in Hopkins, myself and travel companion for the last week Laurie, went to the bus stop with conflicting info on whether their was a bus out of town or not. We didn’t get up in time for the 8am bus (guess who’s fault that was!) so we went down to sit and wait on the edge of town. We had very little money (I only had the bus fair) so we had no choice but to get to a place with a cashpoint. Eventually we realized there were no more buses running (it’s a Sunday thing) so we hitched a lift in the back of a pickup which took us straight to Dangriga, what a result!

Dangriga had little to offer other than a place to stay and an ATM, but that was fine.

The next day we parted company as Laurie was headed to Belize City and the nearby baboon sanctuary. I couldn’t face watching those red-arsed monkeys picking each others swollen behinds so I’ve headed to a place 6 miles west of San Ignacio near the Guatemalan border. It’s a butterfly farm/nature centre with a lodging place called Trek Stop, set in the jungle with wooden cabins, free internet, great food, a video library and excellent hospitality – it’s amazing what you find in the jungle.

Sunset from Trek Stop
Sunset from Trek Stop

Tomorrow’s another day and I’m going to go for a trek up to the local Mayan ruins to see if I’m over the ruin overload, or not.

I’ll try to post more photos in the next day or two. Let me know if you like them or whether they’re just taking too long to load and becoming a pain in the monkeys arse.

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Feeling Sicky on the Hokey Pokey

Saturday, November 19th, 2005

I loved Caye Caulker, but I finally made it off the island. It was becoming a bit of a local joke where I would say i was leaving tomorrow and then people would see me the next day saying the same thing. Still, when it’s good it’s good – time’s on my side.

Sunset on Caye Caulker
Sunset on Caye Caulker

Monday was the day of escape, taking the water taxi back to the mainland, then a couple of local buses – Belize City to Dangriga, then Dangriga down to Placencia. When I say local I mean really local. Stopping at every pothole in the road to pick people up/drop off. Finally arrived in Placencia after nightfall and we were greeted by an old man offering lodgings, which turned out to be perfect, especially as were strangers in a strange land with nowhere to stay. It felt like we were the only people in the village on the first night, but the next day more backpackers turned up and the place started to come to life. Had a beautiful day on the beach with sunshine and tranquil waters, followed by much rum and coke in the evening.

Proceeded to spend the next 4 days in Placencia, and while the weather never returned to the form of Tuesday, it was still a cool place with beautiful friendly people. The faces from Caye Caulker kept popping up as the week progressed and ended on a high on Thursday night – perfect for getting that hangover for travelling Friday morning!

Managed to get to the Hokey Pokey water taxi at 10am Friday, took that down to Independence where we (just) caught the bus up to Hopkins for the Garifuna Settlement day celebrations. It’s been pretty shitty weather since we got here, which has put a bit of a dampener (!) on the party but there’s more fun tonight so all will be good.

Out of interest, since starting my trip in Mexico I’ve been hearing the Gasolina song all the way along – has this made it to England or is it just sweeping over this continent?

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