BELICE Day 3

Well I am very, very itchy; 300 or so bites. People freak out when they see me, like I am a leper. I am trying not to scratch.
After chatting with Stu on the way out of Pine Ridge, we set out for a day of waterfall viewing and rock jumping. First and best stop was Big Rock Falls, but we didn't bring the camera down the steep hike for fear of getting it wet or stolen. This place had a couple great pools and just a few nice rocks to jump off of, which we did. After enough, we hit Five Sisters falls, where Camper swam,

and Alex

and I jumped off of rocks into some deep, refreshing water.

The place was nice but a bit developed for our taste, complete with an outdoor elevator for the lazies to bypass the stairs.
We headed to Rio On pools, where there weren't many fun cliff jumping options. Camper picked a bad line crossing a set of rapids and was on her way to drowning under a waterfall when I got to her; one doggy saved, thank goodness. This place was a bit boring so we went to check out the nearby caves, where we heard there was a camping option. The camping sucked, but the cave was incredible.

We walked about in there for a bit, Camp taking a dump, and headed out to find ~15 Belicean Army gunmen waiting for us. Apparently there has been some robberies in the area and these guys had just finished an 8 hour jungle hike. They carry M16's.

Nothing do do but move on, we headed towards the quasi-border town of San Ignacio. We camped in a spot called The Family farm, where proprietor, Roy, walks about smoking huge joints and talking about everything from drug smuggling to music to world economy. Nice guy; we cooked dinner and went out on the town to two spots; Bonkers and Faya Wata. Bonkers had an ex- rodeo clown bartender in a cowboy hat; Faya Wata was a loud, obnoxious place where we drank a few beers talking to some people from Holland... The town wasn't as cool as our often wrong guidebook said it was... Onward, towards Guatemala!
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