Belize City - photos

Belize City:

From Placencia, we took a bus for Belize City which used to be the capital of Belize. After the hurricane which devastated the city in 1961, the governement (in 1970) decided to move all the institutions to Belmopan, close to the Guatemalan frontier. We passed by Belmopan in the bus and there was absolutly no charm and nothing here except concrete block buildings.

Well there was no charm either in Belize City. Obviously due to the hurricanes, the town is made now by concrete block buildings. Only few colonial buildings remained. It was also raining all the afternoons so after some walk during the morning, siesta, reading and cards for the afternoon! And what a pain to call my mum! The only telecommunications company which is also the only internet supplier has banned people to download and use Skype. The Belizian government has told the company to lift the ban but nothing has been done! So I needed to use normal phone but the office of the company was closed on a Saturday! Finally we found a shop selling cards to phone and I get only 6 min as the coast was 4 quid! Well after that, it was time to leave Belize for Mexico...the epidemic of influenza was beginning...

- The Belize river and the famous Swing bridge. Built in 1923 in Liverpool, the bridge is the only manually operated swing bridge in the world,
- View of the Fort George area which is the touristic place of Belize City,
- Drugstore close to the market place,
- The market place and its colourful benches. In the background the Highcourt building,
- How difficult was it to call my mum! That was a long time since Argentina that I had not used the public phone!