Over the years, I have been blessed with many opportunities to travel. I’ve always known how lucky and fortunate I have been to have these traveling experiences, both domestic and abroad. I have cherished each and every trip and have developed such a passion for traveling the world.
By far the best trip I have ever been on was in 2005, to Belize. My parents and I, along with my favorite cousin were able to experience this amazing trip together. Before embarking on this trip, we actually spent time in Mexico, but I’ll save that story for another time. After what seemed like the longest, complicated journey to get to Belize, we were finally there. We piled off the smallest plane I’ve ever been on, called a “puddle jumper,” to the areas tiny airport. We were going to be staying in the San Pedro and Ambergris Caye area. Before we could head to our “resort” we had to stop at the local grocery store. Being as famished as I was from our drawn out arrival, I had never been happier to be in a grocery store in all my life. We got what we needed and put our groceries on the boat and waited. We decided to kill some time at a little bar by where the boat was docked and have some beverages. The water, the scenery and smells were all so beautifully relaxing to me. The waters in Belize are the clearest blue, green I have seen. It was truly breathtaking.
Finally we were on the boat, heading to our hotel. The boat ride was about twenty minutes and of course beautiful. The wind and water spraying in your face, cooling me down, was exactly what I needed. Watching all the beautiful houses pass was pleasing as well. As fun as the boat ride was, I was happy to arrive at our destination. The place was called the Costa Maya Reef Resort; made up of separated houses for privacy, which I thought was really cool. We had an entire bottom floor of a house to ourselves. It was spacious, nice and very accommodating. Once we got settled, we began to plan our activities for the week.
The reason I say that Belize was the best trip I’ve been on is because of all the activities I was able to experience. Zip-lining through the Mayan jungle with howler monkeys hooping and hollering off in the distance was probably my favorite part. As a nature lover, I thought the rainforest was incredible to get to walk/fly through. Next was cave-tubing and what an awesome time that was. Floating in black inner-tubes through the river and into a cave was the perfect way to cool down. Our guide forgot to mention that the river had fish in it, just swimming under us, until after we were done—which was definitely for the best, or I’m sure I would have freaked out. The cave was infested with bats, sleeping away, which was also very cool to see. Before this trip, I had never had the opportunity to go scuba diving. We did our practice session with our guide in the resort’s pool. Then after we learned all the essentials, we headed out to a dive. If I can remember correctly, I believe we dived down to about 60 feet. Talk about an experience! Being able to be under water for such an extended period of time was so foreign to me. I have to admit, I was a little intimidated by it all, but I quickly gave into and it was incredible. Getting to swim with all the fish and sea life was remarkable. We even got to swim through an underwater cave with an electric eel right beside me. I thought I was going to die, but it was totally worth it.
There are so many other activities that were available to the resort (snorkeling, deep sea fishing, nature hikes, Mayan ruin hikes, etc). If you want a fairly cheap, super exciting and activity filled exotic trip, then Belize is the place for you! Plus it’s an English speaking country so there are no language barrier problems. Amazing and beautiful place and I would recommend it to anyone.
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