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| Though the town itself is darling, full of flowers and palm trees and brightly-colored beach houses on stilts, and you may be tempted to go get some ice cream or a couple of Belize's Belikin beers and lie on the beach all day, the best part about Placencia is the proximity of the water. Snorkeling, fishing, and scuba diving (if you're certified) is plentiful, and even the forty-five minute boat ride to your island/reef destination (or longer, depending on where you're headed) is thrilling. You pound across the warm waves in the sunshine, the warm wind whipping your hair and threatening to steal your hat, as dozens and dozens of tiny islands the size of city blocks stream past. If you're lucky, you may even see a pod of dolphins. And once you arrive at one of the cayes (as the islands are called) it's hot, blinding tropical sunshine and cool palm shade next to some of the most beautiful reef and marine life in the world.
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| If you have a car, this is fairly easy to access from Placencia (minus the long, bumpy ride on the terrible roads): a hot, gorgeous, enormous jungle playground that you can hike through at your leisure. It is also the site of a few minor Mayan ruins, though most likely you won't see much beyond a few rocks on a hill. Much more impressive is the size of the palm trees and ferns and Tarzan vines,... |
| The name alone entices, and the reality is no less enchanting. Laughing Bird Caye is a tiny, skinny strip of sand dotted with palm trees, picnic tables, and one two-story house weathered and brined by the sea along what's known as the inner reef; it's not quite the barrier reef, which is a good bit beyond this one, but is certainly just as much worth the trip. Almost all of the outfitters and... |
| This is like Laughing Bird Caye, but on the barrier reef rather than the inner one. Snorkeling here means swimming from one tiny island to the next, seeing deep purple and orange and pink coral, brilliantly colored fish swimming in and out of huge rock and reef beds, and, most likely, squid, sharks, lobsters, sea worms, and the like. Everything is blinding hot, and even the water is astonishingly... |
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