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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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Ciao members have rated this review on average: very helpful Review of General: Belize
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??
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A Heritage Worth Preserving
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The Belize Barrier Reef is the second largest mass of living ...
Advantages: Amazing wildlife, Mayan temples, cheap day trips & food Disadvantages: Run down, ghettos, high visible unemployment & homelessness
worth today billions of pounds, Lamani, where the Mayans survived for centuries and outwitted their Spanish enemies, and Xunantunich, on the border with Guatemala which still houses some of the tallest structures in Belize today.
- And finally, as I could be here all day listing reasons to visit Belize, if you simply love good weather then how does 105 degree heat guaranteed for most of the year grab you? As they say in Belize, "seeing is Belizing".
You really should put Belize on your to do list!
Getting to Belize
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First let me start by saying it isn't currently that easy to get to Belize from the UK. No matter how you try it you have to first fly into America, and then get a connecting flight. You can connect at many US airports, we did Miami, but Houston, Dallas or Florida are all viable options ...
