Belize Travel Guide

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Belize, known up until 1981 as British Honduras, is the only country in Central or South America where English is spoken as frequently as Spanish is. Belizean residents (a mere three hundred thousand strong) are a fascinating hodgepodge of Mayan, African, Spanish, and British descent, and so although the official language is in fact English, Belize boasts as many as seven main languages. Kriol, a lilting mix of English and Carribean tongues, is the most widely and universally spoken language; to see it written, you'd think it was a charming distortion of English words, but to hear it spoken, it's something else entirely.

Belize is a dreamy, heavy, humid place, equatorial and lush, hung gigantesque palm jungle and a string of elysian white-sand beaches that border the longest coral reef in the world, second only to the Great Barrier off the coast of Australia. Tourists primarily flock, therefore, to the aquamarine coasts for snorkel and diving trips. Those with a significant amount of money can even rent their own private island, cherry-picked from the thousands and thousands of tiny mounds of sand and palm that dot the green miles off the coast. Head inland, though, for jungle hikes and Mayan ruins, since particularly the northern half of Belize once comprised a good chunk of the Mayan empire.

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