Category Archives: Belize

It was 11.20am, as I sat on the quay­side wait­ing for the boat to cross the creek to Inde­pen­dence. The boat had been due to leave 20 min­utes ear­lier, but the cap­tain was fin­ish­ing his game of domi­noes. With the bike onboard we made the 15-minute jour­ney through the man­grove swamps & off I was again on […]

I stopped at one of the beach bars for a sugar hit & knew I’d finally got to where I wanted to be. A walk out­side the bar con­firmed this, as I looked up & down the golden sand of the village’s very clean beach. By the time, I returned to my guest house, The Traveller’s Inn, from a sun­set walk, […]

Twenty kilo­me­tres along the flat Old North­ern High­way brought me to the flat New North­ern High­way. A few kms later, hav­ing passed the sort of gate I’d put on my house, I’d turned onto the flat Bur­rell Boom Road. This, in turn, led me onto the flat West­ern High­way at Hat­tieville, where I had a lunch of chicken, […]

About 10km south of Orange Walk, I came to the junc­tion of the Old North­ern High­way. I could have con­tin­ued down the new high­way & headed up the old high­way from the south for 20km to get to another set of Mayan ruins at Altun Ha. Instead, I turned onto the old one. I had no […]

From Corozal, a short 52km ride along the almost deserted & flat North­ern High­way brought me to the unin­spir­ing town of Orange Walk. The road’s few hills, 3 bumps rather, were so gen­tle — 4–5% — that I was up & over each one by the time I’d said ‘climb’. As I passed numer­ous small vil­lages along the […]

Route Map View Cycling Belize in a larger map Key By bike By plane By ferry By train By bus I cycled over the small iron bridge to get into Belize. There was no sign of immi­gra­tion, how­ever. As so often hap­pens, the immi­gra­tion build­ing is a kilo­me­tre fur­ther down the road. I wheeled the bike into […]