Day One pictures here.

Day Two and Three pickchas here.

Day Four and Five images for you here.

Day Four – BELIZE AND ZIP LINES
We’re told as we’re waiting for tenders to sidle up to our ship, that the cave tubing portion of our excursion was cancelled and that we’d be given a small cash refund and a little longer time at the zip lines in the jungles of Belize. Fair dinkum we all say!

Into the boats and into the busses and we’re down that same road as last year out of town and along the narrow 2000kph stretch of highway across the flat land to the sudden lumps, jutting out of the horizon. We’re at the jungle and our guide tells us that Belize is starting to harvest egrets for meat. “Tastes exactly like chicken!” he says. I’m dubious.

The zip lines go too fast and it started to rain at the first line, making the ropes slippery. There were 7 lines in all with only one repel at the end, so in all, not bad. Though last year, in my humble opinion, the view was better and less rushed. They were pushing a lot of people through that day. I nearly broke my ankle at one tree deck. The guide told me not to brake at all and I guess with my extra weight, I came in too hot and used my right foot to stop myself on the platform. Ow.

Lunch was delish. Egret? Chicken? Who knows?

Back at the boat we relaxed and got together for pre-dinner girl drinks. I gots me a nice funny lookin’ martini glass (which I recognized from Pier One Imports a month before). Pre-dinner entertainment consisted of a musical review of jazzy, swingy, Broadway showtunes. Cheese Factor 6.5 but they did a good job on the costumes and sets.

Dinner. So fat. It was delish as usual. We came back to our room to a bat towel arrangement. Never saw that one last year!

Day Five – COSTA MAYA AND THE RUINS
We’re up and walking between the ships to get to shore. Like a ready made steel canyon. Cool!

Into the bus for a two hour ride into the interior to visit Kohunlich & Dzibanche, two ruins about 40 min apart, one partially excavated and the other, pruned and trimmed with cut grass approaches which made it look like a park. The first thing we encounter are howler monkeys up in the trees. Lordy these things send chills up your spine. They hoot and echo so loud!

The temples themselves were nothing short of amazing. I was stunned and enthralled and loved finding stuff out about these ruins. All the time I was wondering what it must have looked like when they were occupied.

Back to the boat for a fattening dinner and a lazy walk around. Evil Panda gave me some time on the craps table to explain how the damn game is run. So confusing but I was getting close to understanding it. Nearly went and got some chips too but it was closing in on 1am and we had another full day ahead.