Playing on the playa

It was awesome just relaxing a few days in Livingston, but we felt like seeing a new place so this morning Veronica, Charlotte, Kristin, Sara and me headed off to Belize. I did not feel much like it at 5.45am this morning when I woke up and started packing my backpack for the fourth day in a row (it's like playing tetris, everything fits, but only in one spot and if I do it wrong, there is no chance to close the lid). But we had a great boat trip across a small part of the Carribbean Ocean, the sun was shining, the water calm and it was hot. We came to Punta Gorda and thought about looking for a hotel until we came across the bus station and figured we should check out where we could go if we wanted to. An American couple said Placencia a bit further up the coast was beautiful. So we jumped on the first bus, got dropped off in the middle of nowhere and got told to keep walking down the road and we'd find a boat that would take us across a mangrove river. As said as done. Another fantastic boattrip and we got dropped off in, really, the middle of nowhere. Placencia has one of the best beaches in Belize and is a tiny town with only 600 inhabitants at the end of a 50 km long peninsula. You can either drive the dirt road all the way there or catch the boat over. We followed two Swiss guys who thought they knew where they were going and found a hotel. And then, what we had been waiting for, after days in muddy water in Livingston - pure turquoise water, a white beach and a sea breeze. It was so beautiful and absolutely worth the whole trip just to chill there all afternoon.

Now we've had a fantastic dinner at Purple Space Monkey Village, a little expensive compared to Guatemala, but the fish here even beat the one we had in Xela last week when we "celebrated" the firs finca stay. So far so good, we'll see what happens tomorrow, Charlotte and Veronica doesn't like staying more than a night at one place, so it might be back to Livingston, we'll see, we'll see!

Take care!