Sunday 17 January 2016

Belize



1       Yes, Belize is completely different. Firstly  - language: mostly English in Creole version, but also Spanish is popular too (but official language is English). Secondly people – in Mexico society its mostly white people, indigenous people or people who have roots in both of these groups. In Belize you can meet white people, indigenous people, black people, quite a lot diaspora of Chinese and even some German-speaking village of Mennonits. It’s really mixed. Also, because of the fact, that Belize used to be British colony (not Spanish like all the neighbour country) the architecture is completely different too – plenty of wooden building with big porches, reminds me Hollywood movies bout slavery. Country seems to be way poorer and more expensive too... From Orange Walk we took a bus to Belize City, when we spent a night. City (or town – its the biggest city of the state but has only 57 thousand of habitants) seems to be very poor and quite dangerous, full of drunk people and shady streets, but very interesting too...After few hours spending in the city, seeing church which looks exactly like the English churches looks like, we decided to leave this beautiful and tiny, but too expensive for us country and head to Guatemala...After few hours in crowded bus we came to the Guatemala border crossing.

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