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No shoes, No shirt, No problem. - Sign in a Belizean restaurant

 

Best of Belize

Best music on the beach Wátina, Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective

Best place to watch the sun set The back dock on Caye Caulker

Best sea creature (to see) French Angelfish 

Best sea creature (to eat) Grilled lobster

 

Live from Belize

In January 2008, I was on the ground in Belize researching the 3rd edition of that guidebook for Lonely Planet. Read my travel blog from Belize.

 

Don't Worry 'Bout a Thing

Caye Caulker - “No Shirt, No Shoes… No Problem.” So goes the motto at Caye Caulker’s favorite restaurant and watering hole, Rasta Pasta. Nothing seems to be a problem at Rasta Pasta or, indeed, anywhere on this tiny Belizean island, where mangy dogs nap in the middle of the dirt road and suntanned cyclists pedal around them. The only traffic sign on the island instructs golf carts and bicycles to “Go slow,” a directive that is taken seriously. Read more...

 

Belize is for the Birds

Orange Walk - The less-than-sonorous squawk of parrots woke me at dawn. Although the Hotel St Christopher is located on the edge of Orange Walk, a town about 65 miles northwest of Belize City, it sounded like we were on the edge of the jungle. Indeed, in Belize, the edge of town is the edge of the jungle.

 

Belize boasts the highest percentage of protected land in the western hemisphere: almost half of its 8800 square miles is protected by the country’s network of national parks and nature reserves. Of a territory that is roughly the same size as Massachusetts, vast stretches of rainforest are virtually untouched by human hands. Read more...

 

Mara Vorhees is a writer and photographer who blogs about food, music and adventure around the world.She has written guidebooks about Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Morocco, New England and Russia for Lonely Planet. Click here to read more about Mara.