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 Enviar a email | Christmas in Belize en General |  Por svanlieshout@yahoo.com (Dutch
el 06-Jan-2010 | While most Americans and Europeans are rushing to the stores and supermarkets to do their Christmas shopping, it is quiet in Belize. Here we don?t get stressed out over what to buy for our children - who already have boxes full of Barbies, video games, and Lego building bricks. Brodies supermarket has stocked its freezer with a dozen turkeys and has put five new games on the shelves. At the Chinese supermarket you can actually buy a dusty plastic Christmas tree that even comes with a string of lights. The Chinese, I feel, are in it for the money, not for the Christmas cheer. My mailbox is empty, as usual. The restaurants don?t seem to care about decorations, not counting those that are still there from last year. Love FM is playing some Christmas songs on the radio but not frequently.
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Personally, I don't mind at all. I am not a big fan of Christmas, and I hate the overemphasis on food and gifts. I have put up a small tree for our daughter and we are enjoying the efforts some Belmopan residents have made to light up their houses and yards. The whole idea of Christmas shopping in Belmopan is actually funny, unless you want to ask Santa for a bottle of gas, or a mattress...
So I had kind of given up on the idea of Christmas in Belize, until I went to the Actun Tunichil Muknal or ATM cave, a 40,000-year old Maya cave. Wow, what a special place, better than any archeological museum you can ever imagine. After two hours of swimming, climbing and crawling through narrow cracks in the pitch dark with Carlos our guide, we arrived at 'the cathedral', a sacred place where thousands of years ago Mayan priests did their rituals and human sacrifices. There, deep down in the Mayan underground, I saw the most beautiful Christmas scene ever. Doesn't it look like a nativity group? Amazing hey!
If you forget for a minute that there are also the 1400-year old remains of a teenage sacrifice victim who is believed to be clubbed and left for dead, you can actually feel the peace in that cave.
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And on that note I wish you all a peaceful Christmas and an Amazing 2010!
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| Christmas in Belize | | While most Americans and Europeans are rushing to the stores and supermarkets to do their Christmas shopping, it is quiet in Belize. Here we don?t get stressed out over what to buy for our children - who already have boxes full of Barbies, video games, and Lego building bricks. Brodies supermarket has stocked its freezer with a dozen turkeys and has put five new games on the shelves. At the Chinese supermarket you can actually buy a dusty plastic Christmas tree that even comes with a string of lights. The Chinese, I feel, are in it for the money, not for the Christmas cheer. My mailbox is empt Leer nota completa | | Publicado 06-Jan-2010 por svanlieshout@yahoo.com (Dutch en General
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| Bye Bye Belize... | | All good things come to an end. All not-so-good things too - I believe, but that's not what I wanted to talk about. It is true, our stint here in Belmopan has come to an end. We are leaving by the end of this week. So let me take some time to summarize our one-and-a-half year stay in this beautiful country.What I will miss: Leer nota completa | | Publicado 17-May-2010 por svanlieshout@yahoo.com (Dutch en General
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| Winter in Belize | | Okay, it is not exactly snowing here like back home, but it is frigging cold for Belize standards. The cold front that is pestering Europe and the US has decided to com [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 13-Jan-2010 por svanlieshout@yahoo.com (Dutch en General
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| We are back in Belize!!!! | | Yes, the Hunt family has moved back to Belize. After our rather long (2 1/2 years) 'vacation', we are now back at the Jungle Dome. I will start updating this blog again with news of what we're up to here. Jungle greetings! Simone [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 31-Dec-1969 por Simone en General
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| Great blog about Belize |  She's Dutch, she's a mother, she writes a Belize blog and she lives in Belmopan...and no, it's not me.Her name is Susanne and her blog is brilliant! And, unlike mine, hers gets regular updates. Go check it out: http://dutchinbelize.blogspot.com/With interesting articles on the cost of living in Belize, how to set up a restaurant in 3 weeks and how to sing national anthem. I [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 15-Feb-2010 por Simone en General
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| Scuba diving in Belize | | Can you believe that I have managed to live in Belize for 6 years, without having been scuba diving once? I do have my PADI advanced Open Water certificate & love diving, but I just haven?t had a chance to do so whilst living here. For all this time, we were either too busy building our business or I was pregnant or nursing. So I?ve never been on more than a short snorkeling trip (which are gr [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 22-Sep-2007 por Simone en artistas
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| Belize Dolphin Encounter pictures |  Here are two more pictures of last week's dolphin encounter. I never did collect the underwater pictures of my scuba dive though as it started raining badly on San Pedro and the dive shop was quite far from the hotel.Oh well..... [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 26-Sep-2007 por Simone en artistas
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| Religion 'gone crazy' in Belize |  Living in Belize, we've come across some crazy situations with regards to superstitions. People in our local community believe in witchcraft, demon possessions, etc. It seems to be that many of the (rural) communities in Belize have blended the message of the evangelical missionaries with their old traditions/religions and/or superstitions. All that shouting about the devil (something the US [..] Leer nota completa | | Publicado 30-Jan-2008 por Simone en artistas
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