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davidjana
Joined 2011
Posts: 107

9 years ago

Feet on the Ground, Finally !

9 years ago

Made it into Corozal Saturday afternoon much thanks JohnDear for your help with travel details. To save a lot of money over flying into Belize City, I flew into Cancun, Mexico and took a Mexican bus, the ADO bus a couple hundred miles down to Chetumal on the northern border near Corozal Town, Belize. I stayed overnight in Playa de Carmen only a one hour and $13.50 USD bus ride from Cancun airport.

The water around there is that Caribbean green that is so beautiful it doesn't quite look real. Playa is very tourist oriented so an easy place for a gringo relatively speaking. Even with the cost of an overnight stay and a couple meals - good meals on the Caribbean, mind you, and bus and cab fare from Chetumal to the Belize border, it was still maybe half of what it would cost to fly directly into Belize city.

If you don't die of exposure on the five hour ride to Chetumal on the ADO bus - thank god I was directed to take a jacket on the bus which would be the last think one would ever think to do since it's very hot and humid.

Love Belize - I can tell you after two days that I ain't going back unless someone makes me! hehehe ... tomorrow after pounding the pavement all along the Corozal bay beautiful but not quite so as the Playa waters, shaking hands and bartering for room rentals, I found a small one bedroom furnished with a kitchen and AC in the bedroom - AC In the bedroom! for $425USD. Caveat being that by next month here will officially be off season so maybe during winter months, the room would go for $500 which is what she wanted.

I learned that you never have to ask "is this price in Belizean currency or USD?" And I learned to use sunscreen. Getting a phone is on the agenda today cheap with prepaid minutes no contract hassles. Weds going out fishing with nice expat guy who has been helpful also asking only that I bring him some black licorice from the states. For the uninitiated, folks living here always pine for something from the states that you cannot get here can be the oddest thing - like black licorice LOL or maybe maple syrup. You offer to bring them something if they are helpful to you good social protocol, as it were.

Chetumal is a very large city but here in Corozal, it is very small and very limited in terms of USA standards like the one thing I wanted to get but didn't bring for lack of room is snorkeling equipment no where to buy it here probably in Chetumal but I'm heading for Caye Caulker next month and Captain Sharks sells them in San Pedro Town where we will have to go on the water taxi before catching another one out to Caye Caulker so plan to pick them up there.

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