Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 3, 2013

Kat Tancock, travel writer for the Globe and Mail of Toronto, recently visited the Community Baboon Sanctuary in  Bermudian Landing, a short 45-min drive from the airport in Belize City. She writes a great review of the place, and if you are visiting Belize and looking for fun and easy things to do, this one can’t be beat.  

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 2, 2013

If you’re thinking of booking a trip to our island but also wondering what else there is to do before or after your time with us, here’s a very watchable video on YouTube posted by Brit DJ Dave Raven who visited the country back in 2009. He edited his five-day tour down to 20 minutes. It covers Caye Caulker, San Ignacio and Bullet Tree Falls, Mayan Temples, Belize City, Punta Gorda an

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on April 1, 2013

I am here in Belize and have been for almost two weeks. I came off of the island a couple of days ago and am going back out today with our new arrivals. By the time you read this, we will have been sailing, paddling, and snorkeling for days. What a great week last week was, we did everything. Paddleboard surfed, kitesurfed, snorkeled, fished and kayaked; we even had a really big storm and the wind

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 30, 2013

It isn’t the first waterproof case made for the iphone (e.g. Pelican has had one for years at around $40 but it is a case only, nothing more.) It isn’t even the first to allow limited access to certain controls (the Seashell for around $130 has buttons to control the camera.) But according to a brief scan of  the company’s website and a variety of other online reviews, the new

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 29, 2013

Easter in Belize is more than a simple one-day religious holiday as it is in the US and Canada. In Belize Easter is a four-day national event, families make big plans and everybody hits the beach. Some background facts: 75% of Belizians are observing Christians Each of the four days has its own special significance and goes by its own name: Good Friday, Holy Saturday, Easter Sunday, and Easter Mon

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 28, 2013

Sea kayaking is great wherever you can get it, but if you can get it in water that is crystal clear, 80 degrees and perched above a shallow lagoon filled with 700 different patch reefs… well, what can we say. It doesn’t get any better than that. Our favorite thing to do is kayak out in a group from our quiet lagoon to one of a number of close-by reefs. Once there, the leader anchors hi

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 27, 2013

This post has some great eating advise if you’re heading down to Belize (from fellow Belize blogger LORENZO GONZALEZ.) My favorite part of it was this bit. How true: Rowdy and crowded places equals good food Locals tend to gather around the restaurants they love the most. Follow the noise – hearing people laugh loud, curse in Creole and gossip about their day might not be your kind of

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 26, 2013

Awesome new kiteboarding video from earlier this January on the island. Olly and Meg make it seem effortless! Great music, ukulele playing, coconut chopping, hammock swinging, hermit crabs, pelicans, and more… Enjoy! (Visit our Youtube Channel to watch more great videos from the island.)

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on March 25, 2013

by Tony Rath  (as originally published on Tony Rath Photography) I recently returned from an expedition into the tropical forests Belize’s most wild area, the Bladen Nature Reserve. I traveled with rangers from a grass roots organization called Ya’axche Conservation Trust to photograph and document a recently discovered Harpy Eagle’s nest. It had been 2 years since I ventured d