Belize...for Realz?

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@MisterT Any issues bringing personal belongings? I hear there's a difference based on the type of visa you get. Also, how's the transportation costs?
 

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@MisterT Any issues bringing personal belongings? I hear there's a difference based on the type of visa you get. Also, how's the transportation costs?
If you're flying into Belize most airlines allow 2 suitcases up to 25kg each, and a carry on. If you're bringing more than that, your best bet is likely to use 55 gallon drums and send them to Belize Concierge and Shipping in Los Angeles. You'll pay tariffs on anything new, plus something like 100 USD or a bit more per barrel in fees. It's usually better to just sell all that won't fit in your luggage. They are picky about food, especially meat and fruit, best not brought but I have shipped amerikkkan candy and they allowed it. Most things you can buy in Belize, but it may required a trip to Belize City where the bigger stores are. Be prepared, there are practically NO BUSINESSE IN THE ENTIRE COUNTRY that you will recognize. No amerikkkan fast food, just nothing. There is one hotel in BC, a Holiday Inn or something, and an Avis or Alamo car rental at the airport. After that, not a recognizable business in the entire country!

If you go, try to spend at least a week in multiple cities. Each has a different vibe. Corozal is a sleepy city on the ocean. Not a ton of chicks, not a ton of Blacks but cheap and quiet, and only 8 miles from Chetumal, Mexico where there's a Walmart! I spent 2 months there. San Ignacio is touristy, has pyramids, huge outdoor veggie market, many more girls, but a bit short on Black but Blacks ARE there. Some gorgeous Honduran hookers too! Belmopan is the capital, sleepy as fuck, but maybe the cheapest of all. Belize City has tons of hot chicks but there is a crime issue. I wouldn't be afraid to live in most areas of BC but the Southside can get stupid. But do keep in mind that tourists and expats being victims of violent crime is a RARITY! Mostly dumb ass gang members killing each other ala Compton, or the cartels. The cartels have no interest in you. Then there is Dangriga and Hopkins. Those are beach towns, VERY Black but mostly Creole people called the Garifuna. Think Jamaicans but even harder to understand if they don't want you to. Most can speak understandable English if they want but most are more comfortable speaking Creole with one another and, trust me, you won't understand shit! Most are poor as dirt and you'll see some heartbreaking shit, like the basketball tournament I saw with little kids playing team ball with a milk crate for a basket and an old tennis shoe for a ball. About a month later me and the wife took ten basketballs there and passed them out, plus some treats.

There's another city called Spanish Lookout that's close to being 100% occupied by German Quakers called Mennonites. They generally stay to themselves but I never had any issues with them. They ride around on horse buggies. Had one invite my wife to her farm and taught my wife how to can veggies. But Spanish Lookout really isn't for you, but it's a great shopping town to find things that no other city would have other than Belize City.

Don't forget the islands. Considerably more expensive than the inland cities. There's Ambergris Caye (pronounced KEY) and Caye Caulker. Caye Caulker is Blacker but you'll be fine on either. But you'd be living on a little island out in the Caribbean that gets flattened by hurricanes every ten years. Nice to visit, probably not the best choice to live, but people do live on both.



ABOVE: She's one of my favorite Belize girls. She's pregnant as a mongoose now. Oh well, I shoulda run faster.
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I know every single place on that video. That Shell station at 33 minutes in, is where I get my gas. I saw my pharmacy too! Codd's pharmacy, the best pharmacy in Belize. Nice find. When poster commented at the end that the return trip to BC cost more than the arrival bus, that's cause the express bus is air conditioned and the regular bus isn't. They call the non-express bus the "chicken bus" cause long long ago, farmers could bring crates of live chickens on the bus to get them to the outdoor market. That likely ended with the advent of the bird flu, a couple decades back.
 
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Me and the wife on our very first trip to San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize.
GOLF CART CENTRAL!!

I will never forget this man for hipping us to Carramba's Seafood restaurant! Red snapper was off the chain!



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Chilling with the wife in the crocodile infested waters of a little known hideaway called Burrell Boom, BELIZE..........

 

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If you go to San Pedro (Ambergris Caye Island) do not miss "Secret Beach". I didn't even know it existed till my third time on the island, and it's the best part! Just beautiful, but a long golf cart drive from the town. Maybe 40 minutes or so as I remember.....

 

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Oh, did I mention? Girls in Belize LOVE being in beauty pageants. (till Covid fucked it up) These contestants for the "Queen of the West" pageant dropped by my favorite bar ......

 

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Oh man, Belize is on my bucket list. I've been to Costa Rica and going back next year with the family. Wife wants to buy in Costa Rica. I'm looking for the CR thread now.

@playahaitian Everywhere I go around the world I meet haitians. Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Costa Rica ... so many places.
 

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The Miss Belize contest 2 1/2 years back. Another bygone event due to fucking Covid. I had a damn near front row seat for the event in Belize City. Not to mention there was one contestant who had me humping my bedpost for a month! I feel like such a pedo with my aging goofy self, lusting after a 22 year old .....

 
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