Greetings everyone,
Well we made it safetly back to Belize City and after about 10 minutes I think we were all ready to head but to rural communities or out to the islands! As an alternative we headed over to the newly (wasn't here 6 years ago when I was here) developed Cruise Tourist Zone - quite an eye opener after being in more rural destinations for the past 2 1/2 weeks!
The zone isn't quite as bad as some that I've visited (as a cruise tourist) in Mexico but not far off. Most of the stores are ONLY open on cruise days and talking to a number of people throughout Belize it would appear that few of the passengers actually spend time in Belize City. Where we went cave tubing and saw maybe 100 people (high estimate) approximately 400 people will visit on a cruise day. The Zip line which was empty except us when we were there, processes about 600 people on cruise day. There would also have been a steady line of boats heading to Lamanai today...something that made us all thankful that today wasn't the day to do any of those activities!
Tomorrow we are heading off to San Pedro (day trip) to check out tourism development there before heading to Caye Caulker for a couple of days before heading back to Canada.
I hope that you have been enjoying the blog - there should be more up-dates in the next day or so.
Aggie
