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The main bus companies in Belize have their terminals in the
same western area of the city, around the Collet Canal and Magazine
Road, a fairly derelict part of town known as Mesopotamia. It's only
1km or so from the centre and you can easily walk - or, especially
at night, take a taxi - to any of the hotels we've listed. Taxis,
identified by green license plates, charge US$2.50 for one or two
passengers within the city limits.
Boats returning from the
cayes pull in at the Marine Terminal on the north side of the Swing
Bridge, or at Courthouse Wharf on the south side, from where it's a
short walk or taxi ride to any of the hotels or bus depots.
International flights land at the Phillip Goldson
International Airport, 17km northwest of the city; taxis into
town cost US$15, or you could walk to the Northern Highway (25min)
and try to flag down one of the frequent buses; domestic flights
come and go from the municipal airport, a few kilometers
north of town on the edge of the sea; taxis from here to the city
centre charge US$2.50.
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The
Belize Tourist Board (BTB; Mon-Fri 8am-noon & 1-5pm; tel
227-7213) is some distance from the centre, at Gabourel Lane in
front of the Central Bank building. Although it's not an essential
point of call you can pick up free bus timetables, a hotel guide and
city map, nature reserve brochures and copies of the (sometimes
free) tourist newspapers . In the city centre the Marine
Terminal ticket office next to the Swing Bridge has reliable
information on bus and boat schedules. Inside there's a café,
luggage lockers and reasonably clean toilets, and you can change US
dollars, Guatemalan quetzales and Mexican pesos in Sunny's shop.
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Corozal, Orange Walk & North
Altun Ha
Practicalities
Community Baboon Sanctuary
Corozal
Arrival & info
Santa Rita and
Cerros
Crooked Tree Wildlife
Sanctuary
Corozal, Belize
practicalities
Orange Walk
Mennonites in Belize
Explore Orange Walk
Maya sites:
Cuello
Lamanai
Getting to Lamanai
Nohmul
Rio Bravo Conservation Area
La Milpa Field Station
Sartaneja Peninsula
Northern cayes
and attols
Travel details
History of the cayes
Exploring
Northern
Cayes & attols
Ambergris Cave
Eating, drinking, nightlife
Restaurants
Bars and clubs
Arrival & information
The cayes and the reef
Caye and the
reef
Diving
Snorkeling and
other trips
Safeguarding the barrier reef
Ambergris Caye
Hol Chan reserve
Caye
Caulker
Arrival and information
Eating, drinking
Explore
Caye Caulker
Northern
Attols
South
Belmopan
South
- Travel
details
Exploring South
Cayes and the
coast
Dangriga
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Arrival and
information
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History of
the Garífuna
Moving
on from Dangriga
Eating and
drinking
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