Belize 2-18 October 2023

Days: 17
Travel days: 7 / 41%
Non-travel days: 10 / 59%
Total kms: 1118 km
Avg km/day: 66 km
Travel day kms: 895 km
Avg km/travel day: 128 km
Fuel used: 33.20 L (Michael)
Fuel economy: 2.97 L/100km (Michael)

Average cost / day:
Angela: CAD$99.57
Michael: CAD$139.08 (Michael eats more food, burns more fuel and went scuba diving a few times.)

Where we slept:
Airbnb – 5.9%
Hotel – 94.1%

Weather:
Cold/dry – 0%
Cold/wet – 0%
Cool/dry – 0%
Cool/wet – 0%
Warm/dry – 0%
Warm/wet – 0%
Hot/dry – 94.1%
Hot/wet – 5.9%
(Wet defined as riding in rain enough to have put on rain gear; if it rained and we weren’t riding it the day is listed as dry)

Road surface:
Paved – 90%
Rock – 0%
Dirt/gravel – 10%
Sand – 0%

Things we enjoyed:

Lamanai Ruins – decent museum and set of ruins; to get there you will ride through an area populated by Amish with horse and buggy
Ambergris Caye/San Pedro – travel here by water taxi; great place to stay if you like to scuba dive/snorkel; don’t miss Shark Ray Alley
Caye Caulker – reputed to be quieter and cheaper than San Pedro (didn’t visit)
Belmopan – despite being the capital city, there’s really nothing to see here; we did enjoy Everest Nepalese and Indian Restaurant for both the dining and the cultural experience
Placencia – quiet town, great scuba diving from here too
San Ignacio – great place to base for several sites
– ATM Cave is an absolute must do, rated most sacred cave by National Geographic and it a moderately physical experience; go with Mayawalk Tours and ask for Juan Carlos to be the tour guide; they also offer cave tubing, which is pretty cool and best to do before the ATM Cave, because the ATM Cave is the best of the bunch
– Caracol ruins are pretty cool, and contains the tallest manmade structure in Belize (and you can climb it!); it’s a little out of the way – half of the 80 km ride out is unpaved, but not very difficult for a motorcycle, and doable with pretty much any 4-wheel vehicle
– Xunantunich is another great ruin to visit; you will cross a river on a hand-cranked ferry; this site is visited by cruise ship tours because it’s the easiest one to access, so it can be a little crowded; there is lots of wildlife to observe while you’re climbing the various buildings, including monkeys and large lizardy creatures