Belize Zoo, Belize City, Belize District, Belize

Belize it or not!

Advantages: The Blue Hole, rich with history
Disadvantages: beggars following you around town asking for money

I visited Belize in 2006 on a diving trip so this is a review of both Belize and the diving. What Made me Choose Belize? I am a keen diver and had just finished watching champion freediver, Tanya Streeter, in a programme about scuba diving and skin diving in Belize. I was so fascinated and taken by the place that I decided I must go and spent time researching my different options. I settled on a liveaboard experience (7 days at sea) and a week spent in Belize. Getting to/from Belize I live in Berkshire so I flew from London Heathrow to Belize City. There are no direct flights from the UK so I had to fly via Miami and stay in Miami overnight. It was Virgin from LHR to Miami and American to Belize. Coming back I did not have to do an overnight but spent a lot of time waiting at Miami International ...

jupiter28 29.03.2008 · Read full review
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Belize Barrier Reef "A World Heritage Site"

Advantages: Second largest mass of living coral in the World!
Disadvantages: For divers only

?Deterioration or disappearance of any item of the cultural or natural heritage constitutes a harmful impoverishment of the heritage of all the nations of the world. It is incumbent on the international community as a whole to participate in the protection of the cultural and natural heritage of outstanding universal?. ? quoted from UNESCO?S World Heritage Convention. In keeping with the above words, the Belize Barrier-Reef Reserve System was inscribed as a World Heritage site in 1966. It was thus accorded the same status as Machu Picchu in Peru, the Grand Canyon in the United States and other such wonders around the world. So what makes this site of ?Universal Value?? ******************************* A Heritage Worth Preserving ******************************* The Belize Barrier Reef is the second largest mass of living ...

quan 09.08.2007 · Read full review
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American Crocodile Education Sanctuary Belize Claimed non-profit

Advantages: jungle remote and a great place
Disadvantages: 10 miles from any place.

Before you donate to any non-profit check with the IRS. ACES's 501(c)(3) partner 'The Belize Belize Economic & Ecological Development Fund. Check out with the iRS. The pristine jungle sanctuary is eco-friendly and runs entirely on solar. Only 15 minutes by road or by boat from Punta Gorda, the Toledo District's Capital. ACES limits the number of students to maximum of 5 students per session and provides a community 4wd vehicle, includes crocodile research river excursions, and professional training. The organization makes claim that all funds are utilized 100% for the preservation of Belize's American Crocodiles donations, non profit, Crocodile, Orgs, Internal Revenue Service, Belize, Punta Gorda. At time of this article this organization is promoting the idea of the donation?s for a new pen for one of the crocodiles they captured ...

afterpartynews 04.12.2009 · Read full review
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