Belize

Back in Belize, we left the port terminal and walked to the Museum of Belize for the afternoon. It is housed in the former Her Majesty's Prison, and next to the Central Bank of Belize, itself housed in a horrific looking building designed to look like the temple at Altun Ha that we had just visited. The exhibits included the slave trade, the prison itself, piracy in the Caribbean, insects of Belize and the Mayans in Belize. It made for a genuinely interesting stop with some fascinating pieces housed here.

From here, we walked over the famed swing bridge; famed for being one of the last remaining manually-operated bridges of it's kind, but in all honesty it looks fairly unremarkable. So we wandered on past murals and the Supreme Court before returning to the port terminal for a bit of shopping and a tender back to the ship. The sunset from the ship was especially impressive this evening.Read more