Barton Creek Area, Belize

I woke up very early and walked around the jungle, watched the sun fighting through the high and tangly jungle with the high humidy covered on the big leaves and the sound of birds in them.

Pineapple and Cookies for Breakfast gave us the power for the coming day. Together with the English couple we took the kayak and paddled to a very sacred cave of the Mayan..

Barton Creek Cave

...this is a holy place, Maya people used to do their sacrifices in it. They found 28 body´s, some of them where kids, as usual. Our guide took us 1 mile in the cave which is 30m in high, full of massive and beautiful stalagmites, pottery and skulls from a couple of thousend years ago. its quite scary, you are not allowed to speak so you just hear the screams of bats (vampire bats! ) Very impressive.

We went back to Barton Creek, had lunch and tons of fun while jumping into the creek from the wire. The sun was perfectly sorrounding the creek, big trees hanging from above and the Rochwall seems almost fake with his huge plants.

The owners are Americans, living here with there 4 childrens. They dont go to the school, they get teached at home. We actually jointed them in the geographic lesson and told them about our countries.

Jungle Hike, Barton Creek

Everybody got excited about this day - a big hike to a waterfall wa our plan. It turned out to be very expensive and we fought with ourselves, to go - or not to go. We descided to go and did a nearly 7 hour return jungle walk to a quiete nice waterfall. The walk was off the beaten track straight through the jungle, creeks and small rivers. Sounds nice, but 3 hours to get to a fuckin waterfall can ve very very long..

We stopped for 20 minutes, had a swim in the waterfall pool - and where wishing that a helicopter will pick us up soon. But we waited vainly..

So we walked back trough the the jungle, couldnt wait to get out of it - I ruined my trouser and collected tons of ticks on the way, nearly walked on a poisonous snake and thanked God as I finally saw the daylight again. We spend the whole day in the fuckin jungle, everybody was kind of pissed off about that crazy heavy walk, but hey, at least we saw a snake in 7 hours in the jungle! huuhuu! :)

Tonite we camped on the creek, sourrounded by many fireflies and amazing stars while we were slowly saying goodbye to Barton Creek in our minds..

Mennonite Community Barton Creek

One afternoon, we did an amazing walk throuh the Barton Creek area wich is full of jungle, vegetable fields, evergreen grass and very simple built houses. They belong to the Mennonites. 25 Familys are living in this area - without electricity , cars, television or any other machines. They work every day, very hard and it felt like you do a walk 200 years ago. Kids are doing the fram work, everybody is dressed the same way and because they dont mix with other people - they all look the same! They came over, mainly from Germany and holland a long time ago and choosed this little beautiful spot on earth - to live there way.

They are quite shy but friendly. They dont like if u take pictures of them (UPS .. :)).
Most of the familys have arround 10 kids who are all working on the farm, planting lots of vegetables, potatos and corn. They also do very good cheese.

All this, the landscape and the Mennonites are so fitting in this area, far away from all worries. We walked for three hours through this very amazing Countryside and loved it so much.

Back home we had a shower in the creek and another beautiful dinner in this unforgettable area... We went to bed early, totally exhausted. I remember i was freeeezing this night, but not very long. thanx to the coconut :)