Belize and Guatamala 2005
August 2005 we visited Central America again; we were overwhelmed by the beauty of the countries, and people, and animals and we had our adventures...
Harvard Professor Edward O. Wilson talks of Biophilia - the love nature and living creatures. I experienced it as we were snorkelling on the world's second largest barrier reef off of Belize, when a huge Eagle Ray glided slowly beneath us. After seeing hundreds of fish, corral and sharks and stingrays (which we touched!) we felt like later day Jacques Cousteau, swimming with the most beautiful creatures under water - including a leather back sea turtle.
We stayed for five hot humid days in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye where we swam at the beach outside our hotel. We went to the reef to snorkel (I almost drowned but that is another story) and attending miss Maya beauty contest. Then traveled inland to the Maya Mountains, where we stayed in the forest with Mayans, then took a day tour into Guatemala to see the Mayan ruins of Tikal. Wow! I climbed two pyramids, 100 and 200 feet tall. (At the time I didn’t know I had a collapsed lung)
On our way back to Belize city, we stopped at the Belize zoo and saw Jaguars, Harpy Eagle, etc... Words can't express the emotions of seeing such beauty.
To all the wonderful people we met in Belize and Guatemala, a big thank you & Gracias to Tessa, Lilly, Alphonso, Luis, Ilias, Homer etc...
Video of us leaving San Pedro by plane
