Veggie Vacations

From Chaa Creek, we were able to take a canoe into town (San Ignacio) – it was 7 miles downstream, which doesn’t sound too difficult, but I guess my arms are weak! We were TIRED!! We got to see some beautiful birds, and also Belize’s one and only suspension bridge:

We walked around San Ignacio – some tourist-aimed shops with postcards and magnets, and some tour operators, but otherwise people just going about their business.  Plenty of produce sold right on the street too!  This was a nice little park right in the middle of town:

We had an amazing lunch in San Ignacio at a Sri Lankan restaurant called Serendib, where I had a good vegetable curry for a ridiculously low price.  Potatoes and rice, yeah a bit too much starch, but I got my veggies and our bill for 3 people was about $14 US.  Yeah.

We then embarked on a long car trip to Placencia, a small town on a peninsula on the Caribbean coast of Belize…

As we traveled onto the peninsula, we were horrified by the destruction of the jungle that was going on… making way for the construction of oversized vacation homes and resorts.  After visiting Placencia, we would choose in the future to stay at one of the hotels right in town to support the locals rather than support one of the ‘big’ resorts that are mowing down nature…Also, the little restaurants in town did a much better job at feeding me vegan than the hotel did.

Our big hotel, Chabil Mar Villas, did at least give us a couple of bars of organic Belizean chocolate (we switched out milk for dark, which was vegan!), and a lovely villa with a full kitchen and a juicer.  We could have fit 15 of our closest friends in it with us!

I can’t say enough good things about Placencia!  We walked into town that day – what a cool place! Bustling with activity.  We bought some bananas and papayas, and some Belizean wine to have with dinner (Note – the Blackberry wine is REALLY sweet! Yikes!).  Produce was plentiful, but you won’t find any health food store type goods in Placencia (i.e. no soymilk!).

There are two streets in Placencia:  1- the street, 2-the boardwalk.  And you can drive a golf cart through town.  We walked through, making mental notes of places we wanted to visit on our next trip into town.  After a good night’s sleep…

…and then we were ready for a day at the beach!

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