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Advantages: The Blue Hole, rich with history Disadvantages: beggars following you around town asking for money
airport for my flight back to the UK. There are different options and you can pretty much fly back from any major US city that has flights back to the UK
7 Days at Sea
Upon arrival at the airport we were met by the transfers team and they took us from the airport to the port where we would depart. I felt very reassured I had booked this as a female travelling alone I did not want to have to make my own arrangements.
We spent 7 solid diving out in Belize, visiting loads of different dive sites like:
* the famous Blue Hole
* silver caves ( an opening in the reef full of silverside fish, 1000s of them!)
* Belize barrier reef - It is the longest barrier reef in the Western Hemisphere and the second longest in the world (behind the Great Barrier Reef)
Belize diving consists of 3 atolls. An atoll is an island of coral ...
jupiter28 29.03.2008
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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of General: Belize
Advantages: Amazing wildlife, Mayan temples, cheap day trips & food Disadvantages: Run down, ghettos, high visible unemployment & homelessness
"It all seems like yesterday not far away" or so Madonna sang anyway in 'La Isla Bonita'. For me it all seems like 3 weeks ago, and so I decided, to get busy writing up my experiences of my honeymoon in Belize.
The reason for the Madonna quote, if you were wondering, is that, just off Belize is the island which inspired Madonna's song, Ambergris Caye (home of San Pedro), and it is in places truly beautiful. But more about that later.
General Point on this review
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Just as a warning before I do begin, the way I've done this review is to write an account day by day of our experiences in Belize. Because this review would be 50 pages long if I went into real detail of each trip I have mentioned each place in summary, but will be writing specific accounts in separate reviews of all places ...
Advantages: Second largest mass of living coral in the World! Disadvantages: For divers only
bleaching, in which the multicoloured corals turn a translucent white.
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An Underwater Paradise
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The pristine waters of the Belize reef system, averaging 26 degrees Celsius are a delight to divers and snorkelers. Ninety percent of the reef has yet to be explored. It lies just a few hundred meters fro San Pedro on Ambergris Cay and is easily accessible there. Six kilometres southeast of San Pedro is the Hol Chan Marine Reserve, eight square kilometres of shallow underwater park feature a cut, or channel through the reef.
One of the most astounding places on earth for diving is the Blue Hole, a protected World Heritage area in the reserve system, located some 100 kilometres from mainland Belize on Lighthouse Reef. It was made famous by French oceanographer Jacques. Yves Cousteau ...
