Helpful links for Visiting Belize

Backcountry Belize in NYTimes

Photo title: Belize jungle
Link to flickr.

As is the case lately, the NYTimes is focusing on central america lots. This time, it's Belize and covering the interior of the country.

“IF the world had any ends,” Aldous Huxley wrote in 1934, Belize — then known as British Honduras— “would certainly be one of them. It is not on the way from anywhere to anywhere else. It has no strategic value. It is all but uninhabited."

Almost 75 years later, Belize still feels remote. It's roughly the size of Massachusetts, yet it has only a handful of traffic lights. The two-lane road that spans the length of the country is not, in many places, paved. If Huxley were around to be a consumer of American pop culture, however, he'd find that Belize — or at least the strip of it that runs along the Caribbean Sea — has been discovered.

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Google Maps Belize

Belize Beach and Palm
Originally uploaded by Bob Reck

Google Maps is now available for Belize!

Majahual Mexico From Belize

Photo title: Costa Maya
Link to flickr.

Majahual, on the Mayan Coast of Mexico, is a spot close to Belize that makes a nice trip if you're already in Belize.

This is a fairly quiet place but it's soon to get a lot more crowded with a new cruise ship port being built for the "New Majahual."

To get up here, you can just rent a car in Belize and head on north on the highway towards Chetumal.

Continue to Hwy# 307 going North. Just before the little town of Limones, take the new paved road (might not be on tourist maps yet) towards Majahual/Xcalak

The drive from the Belize border should only be an hour or two. There are plenty of gas stations but your best bet is probably to gas up in Chetumal.