Thursday, June 14, 2012

D92: Punta Gorda, Belize



Today it has been three months since I left Ireland and it feels like I have been gone for months and months. For the last six days I have been exploring Belize which is a quite different country compared to the ones that I have visited so far. It is a small Caribbean place with a population of only 310 thousand, which is a mixture of different ethnic groups like Maya, Garifuna (Black Caribs), Creoles (African mixed with Europeans), mestizos (indigenous mixed with Africans), Chinese (they are everywhere), Indians (from India), ex pats Americans and Canadians. The smell of the pot on the street, the sound of the reggae and the broken Caribbean English makes me feel like I would be in Jamaica.

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