Rural Belize Villages Tour

Tour of rural Belizean life in the twin towns of Mango Creek and Independence.

From my cruise today, I took a 40 minute ferry ride from Harvest Caye, a private resort island, to the Malacate pier on the mainland of Belize. We saw typical sites such as houses built on stilts, churches, schools, markets, a Big Creek Port where fruit, sugar, rice, bean, and oil are exported, and even the comfortable home (built in the early 1940s) of a local Village pioneer who raised his family here. Agriculture is the leading industry and tourism continues to grow. Six ethnic groups live in Belize. The men eat iguana eggs as an aphrodisiac. The people and the towns were charming and the scenery on the ferry ride was spectacular.