After a relaxing stay in beautiful Bacalar we headed south yet again towards the Mexico-Belize border. We took a taxi to Chetumal Nuevo Mercado, a huge open air market with all sorts of goods being sold, and found a bus headed to Belize.
Belizean buses are old American Bluebird School buses.
The girls enjoyed riding with the windows down!
We made it to Orange Walk Belize and stopped to change money. Then another bus down a dirt road faaaaar into the jungle to our little town of San Antonio.
Oh my gosh, San Antonio! What a lovely town! Teeny tiny, about 500 people. Dogs and kids and chickens and pigs roaming free acroos the countryside. Big coconut trees and little houses. The Rio Hondo is wide and lovely! Our host, Rod, met us at the bus and took us down to our little house. Its beautiful! We even get a fridge and a stove (but no hot water). He took us for a tour around town. We saw all the tiny tiendas (stores) and the library (in a bus) and the garden, and the ferro-cement water tank they are building to collect rainwater, and of course his houseboat- which he designed and had built locally. We met other volunteers and had a nice meal of blackbeans and veggies.
It is great. Small, safe town. Rural like our house. Lovely. Oh, and hot! :)
I've been having so much fun I haven't had a chance to take pictures! But I will upload more soon!
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