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Turn the pages of the guide.
 
What is a Personal Planner?
Other Resources
Belize's Virtual Mall: Cruise this
meeting place for Belize's Internet community and the world.
Belize Audubon Society: It's a beautiful
country. Let's keep it that way, shall we?
Belize Offshore Business Center:
Set up shop in a tax-free Caribbean paradise.
Carolyn Carr: A
catalog of signed and numbered limited edition prints by this Belizean
artist.
Postcards from Belize:
Send or pick up some digital correspondence.
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The Berkeley Guides:
Berkeley Guide to Central America:
Belize
By Jennifer Brewer
If freakish plate tectonics had shorn the nation of Belize from its skinny stretch of continent 400 years ago and sent it drifting into the Caribbean Sea, it couldn't seem more different from the rest of Central America than it does today. Squeezed onto the Yucatán peninsula south of Mexico and west of Guatemala, this Lilliputian, English-speaking nation is physically isolated from its Latin neighbors by the rugged, nearly impassable Maya Mountains to the south and west and by a spectacular barrier reef along its coast. The result is a country more Caribbean than Latin American, one blessed with probably the most peaceful political climate in the entire region. Even though its citizenry includes a potentially volatile mix of Latinos, blacks, and whites, Belize doesn't make big headlines like neighboring Guatemala. In fact, Belize, the size of Massachusetts but with a total population of less than 250,000 (i.e., about half that of Boston), rarely makes any kind of headlines at all. This might explain why many travelers greet the phrase "Let's visit Belize" with a vacant stare.
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