Caught the 9:30 bus west to San Ignacio, which is a small town near the Guatemalan border. We traveled along the Western Highway on a local bus (Bluebird school bus) with the door open, stopping often to drop off and pick up passengers.
A few times the driver pulled over because a group of cyclists were coming towards us with their support vehicles (it was a race - competitive cycling is big here).
About an hour and a half later, around Teakettle Village, the landscape changed from flat savannah to hilly (foothills of the Maya Mountains), and we started to see different (lush and green) vegetation: banana trees, orange groves, teak tree farms, a sign for the Belize/Taiwan experimental farm; we saw horses in fields, and crops of bush beans.
Arrived in San Ignacio around 12:30, found our guesthouse and walked around, got lost, then found; arranged two all-day tours: Monday to a Mayan cave and Weds to Caracol.
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