I have spent the last week in a foreign country. After a record setting four flights in one day, we arrived on Ambergris Caye in San Pedro Town in Belize. Hello again Central America! The last overseas trip I took was to Costa Rica about five years ago—I have some kind of obsession with Central America apparently.
Belize is gorgeous and has all that you would hope/expect a country like that would have to offer—white sand beaches, barrier reefs, geographical oddities, jungles, rainforests, ruins, and under developed cities. If you plan carefully, you can get a little of everything in Belize.
I learned the life philosophy of “Pura Vida” while in Costa Rica and while it definitely made more sense there, it certainly isn’t out of place in Belize either. The phrase translates as “pure life” and in many ways; there is no better way to describe the very moment when you find yourself floating effortlessly a few feet above schools of sting rays, shark rays and overly friendly silver fish.
The realization of where you are and the simple rarity of what you’re witnessing compared to the harsh and mundane reality that is your everyday life is quite simply put, a moment thoroughly infused with “pura vida.” Everyone should experience a moment in which they feel completely alive AT LEAST once a year. That experience throws into sharp relief, the difference between wading through your life and opening your eyes to the entire world. I love trips like this.
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