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* [[Belize City]], [[Belmopan]]
* [[San Ignacio]]
* [[Orange Walk Town]]
: There is very little traffic out of the town, catch the bus south to [[Placentia]]. From Placentia there is a ferry to Mango Creek. (note: Placentia at the end of a long, thin peninsula.)== Experiences ==
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[[File:Katja hitchhiking in Belize.JPG|thumb|left|200px|Hitchhiker [[Katja and Augustas|Katja]] on an empty rural road in Belize.]]'''Belize''' is a small country in [[Central America]]. It borders to [[Mexico]] in the north and [[Guatemala]] in the west.
Hitchhiking in Belize did not appear difficult but expect is very logical and appears to be very good and easy, even locals do it. There are plenty of speedbumps (just called ''bumps''), so each time you walk out of a town it's better to thumb at one of these. Some hitchhikers say that a small token payment may be exchanged. Others have not experienced this at all. Public transport is inexpensive but quite slow considering the size of the country. Cars with green license plates are taxis. People in Belize are very friendly and many of them are proud of their country. Try to show respect to Belize and it's citizens and you'll find out that this tiny country has a lot of things to offer.
== Cities ==
* [[Corozal]]* [[Belize City]]* [[Belmopan]]* [[Punta Gorda]] aka "PG"* [[San Ignacio]] aka Cayo === Trivia Islands === * [[Caye Caulker]]* [[San Pedro (Belize)|San Pedro]] == Jalacte Border Crossing (Illegal by this moment) == December 2016 experience: ''Our experience was hitchhiking into [[HopkinsUser:El Chulito|El Chulito]] after catching the bus and [[User:Shamcore|Shamcore]] tried to legally cross the intersection border with the Southern Highway[[Guatemala]] via [[Jalacte]] in December 2016.They hitchhiked from [[Punta Gorda]] to [[Jalacte]] without any real difficulties. The distance into the sleepy little town traffic is too far poor, but they got rides from one village to walk a next one and reached the local bus into destination point in about 3 hours, which is not a bad timing.The road was completely paved and in great condition. Seems like the town is quite infrequentworks are almost finished. It is likely that About 5kms before Jalacte there's customs where the guards first ask where you will come across locals at go. [[User:El Chulito|El Chulito]] and [[User:Shamcore|Shamcore]] asked about a legal way to exit [[Belize]] and enter [[Guatemala]] and got bad news. The only way to leave the shack on country legally is to find the corner only police officer in Jalacte who are waiting for owns an exit stamp. Actually he's only authorized to put exit stamps only in guatemalan passports, but it seems like he can be convinced to help travelers as well.Now it's impossible to enter [[Guatemala]] legally, because there's no kind of customs or control when entering the buscountry. They noted This means that it was commonplace 's impossible to try get an entry stamp and stay in the country on a legal basis.People say that [[Guatemala]] doesn't really participate in making a legal border crossing point because of a territorial conflict between two countries. Let's hope that in 2017 travelers will be able to hitch a ride while waiting for cross the border legally. At the busmoment you can only enter [[Guatemala]] at your own risk, whichever comes firstwhich is never advisable by HitchWiki community.
''[[User: From Mango Creek walk Zenit|Zenit]] hitched from the ferry western border to the main road northern border in just a day in March 2018. The ease and stick out you thumb. We managed to get a ride with a school bus the friendliness of people made him quite upset at already having to leave again, but the intersection with the Southern Highway to [[Punta Gorda]]unexpected 40B$ (20US$!) exit fee quickly put his feelings back in perspective.''
''[[User: In about 2015 Lev-amatuni|Levon]] had an extremely good experience across all the road country. Roads and vehicles are scarce in many parts of the south to Guatemala should be finishedcountry (one in 20 minutes max); however, they almost always stop, especially if this is not a busy road. It possible to cross over now Sometimes they would expect a small treat (like a bottle of beer) but quite hardnever more than that. Rode a construction worked bus to end Many locals hitchhike in the back of the road, then hiked 4km to Jalactepickups too. Then a The atmosphere is very muddy horse trail for about an hour to Santa Cruz, safe (didn't look like there was hitchhike in Belize City, though). Again, a road cross bordervery positive experience in general. No border post, so probably not very legalsigns/cardboards are needed. Otherwise I found Belize very hitchable Just to underscore the level of "hitchability" - we hitched from and would've made it from north back to the airport right on time to fly back to very south in one day.Canada :)
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