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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
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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
coral in the world, after the Great Barrier Reef of Australia, and it is the longest in the Western Hemisphere. It extends for 300 kilometres along the Yucat`an Peninsula, including most of the coast of the Central American country of Belize. In addition to the reef itself ?actually a series of reefs ? the reserve includes some 450 cays or islets and three coral atolls, ring shaped reefs enclosing picturesque lagoons. Seven aquatic areas in this reserve, totalling 960 square kilometres are specifically protected under the World Heritage Convention.
The importance of preserving coral reefs is evident in that they are home to one quarter of the earths marine plants and animals. Indeed, coral reef ecosystems are second only to tropical rain forests in biodiversity. Yet, scientists warn that 70 percent of all corals on the planet will be ...
