{"id":2222,"date":"2023-01-17T10:59:43","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T14:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/?p=2203"},"modified":"2023-01-19T18:38:21","modified_gmt":"2023-01-19T22:38:21","slug":"belize-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/belize-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Belize City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After Cozumel, we cruised overnight and arrived in Belize City the next morning. Here, we boarded a bus for a guided tour of the city. Unfortunately, we also witnessed a terrible accident: <!--more--> our bus was following a pickup truck with a young man sitting in the bed, holding on to a piece of sheet metal. It wasn&#8217;t tied down, and when the wind inevitably swept it into the air, it took him with it and then slammed him onto the road right in front of our bus. 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Since this wetland tour included quite a few water lilies, we thought it was better than the one in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/florida-everglades\/\">Everglades<\/a> a few days earlier.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/belize1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/belize1.jpg\" alt=\"Airboat guide\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/belize4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/belize4.jpg\" alt=\"View of wetlands from airboat\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2197\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Belize was my first new country on this trip, but far from the last!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/belize2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/belize2.jpg\" alt=\"Waterlilies\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2195\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/belize3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.lklawless.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/belize3.jpg\" alt=\"Closeup of water lily\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After Cozumel, we cruised overnight and arrived in Belize City the next morning. 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