LAN SLUDER'S GUIDE TO BELIZE is the new, up-to-date travel guide to this amazingly beautiful, diverse and exciting English-speaking country on the Caribbean Coast. You'll benefit from Lan Sluder's 25 years of reporting on Belize. He's explored every corner of Belize many times, personally stayed at more than 250 beach resorts, jungle lodges and personality inns in Belize (and toured the rest) and has tried nearly every restaurant in the country. As the award-winning author of more than 15 books on Belize, including Fodor's Belize, Easy Belize and Living Abroad in Belize, Lan Sluder knows the country and tells it like it is. This guide gives you the latest scoop on snorkeling, diving, jungle trekking, hiking, cave tubing, fishing, kayaking, sailing, visiting ancient Maya ruins, caving, birding, wildlife spotting, horseback riding, snorkeling with sharks and stingrays, diving with whale sharks and other activities on the water and on land. It gives you detailed, candid information on the best hotels, restaurants, attractions and tours. And it also gives you tips on how to avoid rip-offs and overpriced tourist traps. It shares tips on stretching your travel dollars and provides itineraries and choices for your budget, whether it's high, low or in-between. This travel guide covers every destination in Belize, from popular islands like Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker to the rainforests and jungles of the mainland and to off-the-beaten path, little-visited places like Sarteneja in Northern Belize and the Maya villages of Toledo District in the Deep South. In more than 500 pages and 180,000 words, Lan Sluder's Guide to Belize covers all these destinations and more: SAN PEDRO AND AMBERGRIS CAYE CAYE CAULKER Lighthouse Reef and the Blue Hole, Turneffe Atoll and Glover's Reef Atoll Remote islands inside the Belize Barrier Reef including Southwater Caye, Tobacco Caye, the Snakes Cayes, Ragged Cayes and more SAN IGNACIO, BELMOPAN & the MOUNTAIN PINE RIDGE IN CAYO PLACENCIA, HOPKINS and Dangriga on the Southern Coast Punta Gorda and the Maya villages in Toledo District Corozal Town, Cerros and Sarteneja in Corozal District Orange Walk Town and Orange Walk District Belize City BONUS CHAPTERS with in-depth information on side trips to TIKAL, Guatemala, and Chetumal, Mexico! This guide lists the Top 10 Everything -- Top 10 Beach Resorts, Top 10 Jungle Lodges, Top 10 Budget/Value Hotels, Top 10 Restaurants, Top 10 Watering Holes, Top 10 Attractions, Top 10 Adventures and 10 Best Beaches in Belize! Lan Sluder's Guide to Belize tells you everything you need to know about getting to Belize by air, sea and land ... and how to travel safely around the country by bus, water taxi, rental car, puddle jumper and private shuttles. It shares the wonderful diversity of this little country -- Maya, Mestizos, Creoles, Garifuna, Mennonites and others. It even gives you a quick lesson on traveler's Spanish and "Bileez Kriol." This is the new guide that goes in-depth on Belize's national parks, wildlife sanctuaries, forest preserves and marine reserves. It tells you what's noteworthy about the top Maya sites including Tikal, Caracol, Lamanai, Xunantunich, Altun Ha, Lubaantun, Nim Li Punit, La Milpa, El Pilar and more. It provides what you need to know about spotting the elusive jaguar, the mountain cow, the sea cow and the cow cows! It gives you precise information on how to get to where you want to go and exactly how much you should pay. The new guidebook includes more than 40 photos and maps. Check the Table of Contents and the free preview and see if you agree that you get far more for your money with Lan Sluder's Guide to Belize. You get more for less, with everything as accurate and up-to-date as possible. Thank you for considering this new guidebook to Belize, and don't hesitate to email Lan Sluder (his private address is in the book) with any questions or comments you have.
About the Author: Lan Sluder has been reporting on and writing about Belize for more than a quarter century. The author of 15 books and ebooks on Belize, Sluder has helped many people plan the adventure of a lifetime in this fascinating little English-speaking country on the Caribbean Coast of Central America. Over the years, Sluder has personally stayed in more than 250 hotels, resorts, inns, guesthouses and lodges in Belize and has visited and toured hundreds more. He has eaten at most of the restaurants in Belize and has visited every corner of the country, most many times. Among Lan Sluder's Belize books, besides this one, are Easy Belize: How to Live, Retire, Work and Buy Property in Belize, the English Speaking, Frost Free Paradise on the Caribbean Coast; Fodor's Belize; Living Abroad in Belize; Adapter Kit: Belize; San Pedro Cool; and Lan Sluder's Guide to the Cayes, Coast and Beaches of Belize. Sluder is also founder, editor and publisher of Belize First Magazine - a web edition is at www.belizefirst.com. In addition to his books on Belize, Sluder has authored several books on Asheville and the North Carolina mountains, including Amazing Asheville, Asheville Relocation, Retirement and Visitor Guide and Moving to the Mountains. He wrote Frommer's Best Beach Vacations: Carolinas and Georgia, Fodor's InFocus Great Smoky Mountains National Park and co-authored Fodor's The Carolinas & Georgia. His Asheville website is www.amazingasheville.net. Also, he has written a book on the game of bridge, Play Bridge Today, and a book on vintage Rolls-Royce and Bentley motorcars, Buy a Classic Rolls-Royce or Bentley. A former business newspaper editor and reporter in New Orleans, Sluder has contributed articles on travel, retirement and business subjects to media around the world, including The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Where to Retire, Canada's Globe and Mail, Bangkok Post, The Tico Times, Charlotte Observer, TravelChannel.com and Caribbean Travel & Life. Sluder was educated at Duke University and in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. When not in Belize or traveling elsewhere, Sluder lives on a mountain farm near Asheville, N.C., with wife Sheila M. Lambert, an attorney. They have two children, Brooks Lambert-Sluder, a graduate of Harvard College and now Program Manager, Advising Programs Office at Harvard, and Rose Lambert-Sluder, a graduate of the MFA creative writing program at the University of Oregon who lives in Portland, Ore., and is now pursuing a career in writing.