Barton Creek - Belmopan - Tobacco Caye

This day is another history part, the whole was just traveling - but u cant imagine what we´ve gone trough - just to go from the west to the east of Belize. We got a lift with the owner from the Creek Station to San Igancio with a 40 year old landcruiser through the Orangefield packed, breathtaking scenery of the Cargo District.

The day already started with a shock I created myself - I accidently deleted ( me or the virus ) all my pics from my small underwater camera, all the diving and much more .. gone. Grr.
Then we saw the taxi driver again, we thought he will kill us for braking down his car, but he was smiling and waving.. We took the bus to Belmopan, the capital of Belize and catched seats - what a surprise!

Bus driving in Belize is a big adventure - you will love it, or hate it. The colourful old American School Buses wre the main transport on Belize streets. There is just one little problem - you have to fight for a seat. A machete would be very usefull :) The small seats are made for 2 childrens, but in Belize the whole family sits there. So instead of 30 people, there are 60 people in the bus, packed like sardines. people are standing, the bus is struggeling to reach the next hill. Its lots of fun - escpeacially when the sell people are coming trough and chickens in the back are screaming..

In Belmopan we behaved too friendly and couldnt catch any seat, so we had to wait for the next one. This time is was good to behave like a german. Just push everybody, ran over the seats and take a big jump to a free seat. I catched one and in the end I had to sit on Marcos knees for more then 2 hours. But we made it.

Along the Hummingbird Highway, wich is absolutly incredible, the bus nearly went backwards cause the hills are high and the bus packed. Millions of Orangetrees and lots of jungel were on our side. The bus stopps for ca 1234554 mio times, there are no bus stations so he´s catching eveybody on the street from the sidewalk.

In Dangrira we went straight to the boat to go to Tobacco Caye, but for sure, the last one was gone 15 minutes ago. Some drunk fisherman told us to hang out a while, maybe something will come up. And yes, we were "lucky" this time. The only thing was that it was getting dark, the tide is low, the boat very small and the sea very choppy... ah yeah, and we had no light on our boat! If you count all this together you can imagine what kind of ride this was. We were jumping and speeding through the big waves, saltwater splashedover us while we tried to stay on the boat. We passed some Mangrove Island, went trough them without seeing anything. Strange lights around the boat came up, very tiny they jumped through the air after we crashed on the waves. lots of them and so beautiful. They were algie´s - but seemed like Aliens.

After 45 min - at least - we finally arrived on the island - totally wet and sticky from the saltwater. Booked into the only hotel where there is no "all inclusive" , which turned out to be the best descision ever. Couldnt wait for the morning to see the full size and shape of the Island..