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Sea-Rious Tours Taking a tour to the mainland
There are as many tour companies in San Pedro Town as there are bars, restaurants, or lodgings. The day tour from San Pedro Town to the Mayan ruins at Lamanai on the Belize mainland, including drinks, transport , food, a guide and park fee is $150.00 U.S...
Palapa Bar and Grill A San Pedro Town Institution
A palapa has a thatched roof that lets rain run off it like water runs off a duck's back. The shape and structure of these traditional island buildings is functional, not complicated to build, and uses local materials. In a big wind the whole thing...
Wheels in the shop In the shop in Belize
Golf carts are in, in San Pedro Town. Some of the carts are old; others are new. New ones cost from nine to fifteen thousand U.S. dollars depending on what they have under their seat, and, while the carts aren't complicated mechanically, mechanic shops...
Belize Bike Ride headed south
Ambergris Caye is not wide but it is long. From one end to the other, head to toes, is over twenty eight miles. San Pedro Town is in the middle of the island and holds most of the business and population. The island's one improved road, to the south and...
A Good Place to Stay Good value in San Pedro Town
According to Rabbit, retired bartender, Ramon's Village is one of the better values in San Pedro Town. If you are coming to Ambergris Caye for a week and want to have convenience, service, good food, security, access to the water, a good home base for...
Sunday Fundraiser San Pedro Town.
The grills are fired up and chickens are the topic of conversation. A local Hispanic church is doing a fundraiser selling food, used clothes and donated items outside their little church in San Pedro town. " Jesus es la Repuestra " the marquee says and...
Is a Church More than its Members? Belize Satellite
This church rents a shut down movie theater on Sundays for two services -8 :30 and 10:00 am. The mother church is in Albuquerque, New Mexico and Sagebrush, I have been told by an Albuquerque friend who is a member, is on Albuquerque's west side and...
Captain Morgan’s Resort and Casino privateers and pirates
The resort and casino are on the north side of Ambergris Caye and you get there in a taxi by the new road, or a water taxi with Coastal Express, or catch one of the resort's own shuttles that bring guests to and from their accommodations. This time of...
La Taqueria street food
There is street food in San Pedro Town. This little enterprise, " La Taqueria ", opens at seven thirty each morning on Coconut Street where the road turns towards the Average Joe Bar and Caribbean Fuels gas station, and turns again past the S & P...
School day San Pedro Roman Catholic Primary School
Kids go to school to learn, all over the world. This Monday morning is a new week at a local primary school. Some kids, I observe, are smiling while others are not overjoyed, but most children all over the world go to school where they grow up and are...
Art is Fishing Husband and wife team
"She likes details," Bruce Cooper says of his wife. Their gallery, in a rented shop on main street in Caye Caulker, presents her art. She paints and he runs the business end of their collaboration. "We sell original art, prints, and small stocking...
Roadhouse New bar in town
There is no lack of bars in San Pedro Town. They come and go like tourists. Some are successful over the long run and others collapse under their own weight. The Legend's location is good, out in the countryside with an unimpeded view of the barrier reef...
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