Belize it is

We have decided, after much persuasion, to go to Belize in order to renew our 90 day tourist visas. We are still quite unsure how long we must go in order to renew (we've heard as little as a couple of hours to as much as three days), but we've decided to play it safe and go for three days.

We will be leaving Friday after school and will return Tuesday afternoon/evening.

We are very uncertain about how to get where we want to go, as there aren't bus schedules online. We just have to wing it and hopefully we'll find our destination on time.


We've decided to just stay in (beautiful?.. I hope!) Punta Gorda, Belize at a bed and breakfast run by a British couple. It's called Hickatee Cottages. We wanted to go on a specific date, and the room we wanted was already booked, so they upgraded us for free! It's pretty sweet.

While we're there, we will be able to see a butterfly farm and we're (hopefully if we booked it in time) going to go on a tour that involves a trek through the forest, swimming by waterfalls, and seeing how they make chocolate! It was a little expensive, but I think it will be awesome and worth it.


Like I said before, we're a little anxious about being able to navigate the buses and getting where we need to be on time (we have a ferry to catch Saturday morning, with a second chance in the afternoon). But, we've decided already that it's just going to have to be an adventure, and we might get lost, and we might have a difficult time, but we have to do it.

Luckily, if worse comes to worst, we have one more week after this to renew our visas. We might be able to just catch a flight to Florida and hang out there. That's only if we don't, for some reason, make it to Belize.


We're not taking our computer, so if no one hears from us by Wednesday then probably someone ought to call the embassy. I don't think anything will happen, but just in case!

When we return, I will post about which buses we caught and at what times, about the ferry in Puerto Barrios,  our accommodations, our chocolate tour, and the food. We'll be sure to take as many pictures as we can and we'll share those as well.


Until Wednesday....