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Location: Never in one place long | winwillows - 2017-07-20 4:29 PM
Wow! this all sound like fun. I think after hearing all this that would go to Hawaii.
haha!
it's so crazy how people have such varying experiences! Nicaragua had horrible food and it was quite primitive, you can't ever even flush any toilet paper down the toilet there and very outdated places etc but we LOVED it! I never felt unsafe and I like that is WAS different and not so nice!
Belize was also amazing, saw manatees. I did not feel unsafe in either of these places. :) |
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Location: Never in one place long | star1218 - 2017-07-21 8:51 AM
I've had friends who have visited Belize as well. One group had the best time - went mainly for open water fishing and they have been back multiple times.
Second group visited during a cruise stop. They had ARMED GUARDS the entire time they were off the ship.  My gf noticed Belize City is like fenced off? With a very high chain type fence...NO thanks. She said she'd never travel there agin.    Â
I vote Bahamas. Lovely, safe, Sandals Resort :) Â
It was like this with nearly every Cruise port we stopped at also, mainly Mexico but I didn't feel unsafe, that's just how they have things for security. |
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Location: Never in one place long | Marfan - 2017-07-21 10:00 AM
I've traveled to Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatamala, more than once. Â El Salvador, in my opinion, is the most beautiful. Â We wandered aound in a rental car that was not marked as such, for a little bit of safety. Â In El Salvador, we were checking on some USA aid projects, such as schools and hospitals and went to very off-the-grid kind of locations in the mountains that had lots of armed to the teeth Pancho Villa dudes milling around. Â Hauled local hitchhikers around and had the BEST coffee at small tin shacks that roast thier own. Â
In Honduras, we ran across a fellow with amazing "dancing" horses. Â Hung around for a while and even rode several of them! Â Stayed in Roatan one night and did not like it, much.
In Guatamala we went to Tikal Mayan ruins. Â That country is stunning and ruins, well they are incredible. Â Ate super good food there, most of the time in little ladies front yards as they cooked over an open fire.
Belize was a blast!  We were the typical adventure tourists. lol  We carried inner tubes through the jungle past guys with machetes to go tubing in a river that runs through a mountain, took canoes into a large Mayan cave with a large creek running through it, hired a small John Boat and went reef fishing, went out on a dive boat for a little SCUBA and snorkeling experience, took a boat to a caye and a plane back. Belize City did have seedy looking places, mostly near the cruise ship docks. Â
It has been several years since my last trip, and I hope to make another soon!
wow! you have gotten around! amazing! thank you for sharing and for the ideas! |
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