Flores is a crowded little island on Lake Petén Itźa, Guatemala, popular with motorbike hoons and tourists with spectacular sunsets and a vibrant night life to offer. You can walk around the whole island in about 15 minutes, watch kids dodge traffic then leap into the water and try not…
Bec
Previous lives include graphic designer, trainee chef and favourite child. These days I'm living each day as it comes...otherwise known as giving up my good job, giving up my house to tenants, giving up a lot of material possessions and even giving up my cat. The future includes traveling to South America, Canada, the US and Central America to work out where next...
speaking of marriage…
/ 13/02/2013Being an awesome tour group has its advantages. Ernesto and his family threw a house party at grandpa’s and the food, drinks, conversation, laughter, dancing and marriage proposals flowed freely. I say proposals because from my limited understanding of Creole, apparently grandpa and I are getting married in Honduras later…
going underground in border country
/ 13/02/2013San Ignacio lies just near the western border of Belize and Guatemala up in the hills. Our tour guide hails from Cayo as it is locally known so we were lucky enough to be treated to dinner at his grandfather’s house, along with a large slice of his extended family…
beautiful Belize gives Queensland a rum for her money
/ 08/02/2013Leaving amazing Mexico was a lot easier to do when the next stop turned out so beautiful. Caye Caulker in Belize’s Mesoamerican Barrier Reef is white sand, aqua and brilliant blue water teeming with nurse sharks, eagle rays and sting rays, parrotfish, stunning coral gardens, green turtles and all manner…
tranquility in Tulum
/ 07/02/2013Tulum was our final stop in Mexico, a peaceful time spent cycling everywhere to swim in the Grand Cenote, tour the ruins of the Mayan city of Tulum perched on the cliff tops above the postcard perfect beach, laze in hammocks, swim in the aqua heaven of the waves and…