Saturday July 23rd 2011

San Ignacio

Basking in the excitement of getting an awesome grade on my EOH (Environmental Occupational health) final exam, this morning Suzie and I went to San Ignacio. I was really excited today morning because yesterday evening I discussed with Suzie what things I had yet to do and really wanted to get accomplished here in Belize. Since Suzie hadn’t been to San Ignacio we headed there at 10am. The ride took the usual 1-hour and some minutes. When we got there we headed to the market, which is a few steps from the bus station, and walked around to see what mementos we could purchase to take back with us. After walking around and scoping the stalls we planned our plan of attack and were able to purchase a few of the slate stone Mayan calendars and some necklaces. Since Suzie is planning to come back to San Ignacio with her boyfriend later this week we walked around San Ignacio looking for tour companies and prices for different activities. I still want to go horse back riding. The prices we got were $50 US and up for 2 hours and the price went up as you increased time. We then went to a local restaurant which also houses Sergio who gave us an awesome quote earlier when we had gone to Caracol earlier in June. His price quote was also a little high. Since we were already in the restaurant we decided to get lunch. It was hard to make a decision but after getting input from individuals who worked in the restaurant we settled on Pineapples juice and Beef quesadillas, Mmmh GOODNESS!!!!

After quenching our first and satisfying our hunger we headed back to the bus station and stopped at a tour company and after haggling we were able to get horse back riding for 4hours for $25. JACKPOT!!! We then went to the market to purchase some melons (Cantaloupe and watermelon) and pineapple but got sidetracked b the Macal River. There we met a gentleman named Michael who we talked with for a while. He revealed to us that the Macal river was not clean because sewage was allowed to seep into it and he did not understand how both political parties would not do anything to prevent the sewage from leaking into the water. We then headed back onto the bus satisfied and excited for the horse back riding that is going down tomorrow but convinced that we would not set foot into the river.