48 hours in Caye Caulker, Belize’s Best Backpacker Island

Our main purpose of traveling to Belize was to visit Caye Caulker. We have always dreamed of visiting this island paradise in the Caribbean, but we never expected to take our dog Evie there! Traveling to Belize with a dog has been such an adventure, and as you can see in this video, we are taking full advantage of having our dog with us in Caye Caulker.
Caye Caulker, Belize, is known to be the lesser expensive of Belize's Caribbean Island destinations, and yet, this slice of paradise is much more expensive than we're used to after traveling in Mexico and Guatemala for the past year. We're trying to travel Belize on a budget, and we do a pretty decent job in Caye Caulker, with the exception of our bucket list activity, scuba diving.
There is a lot to see and do in Caye Caulker for free, and, given that this truly is paradise, we had the most magical first day exploring the island. The coffee on Caye Caulker is exceptional, which fuelled our first stop at the Tarpon feeding dock. We have a rule of not feeding animals when we travel, so we didn't participate in the feeding, but watching the giant tarpons jump out of the water was a very cool way to start off our island exploring.
Belizean food is something we knew nothing about when we came to Caye Caulker, but there are delicious stalls set up right along the beach in Caye Caulker that sell local food for a good price, so we ate jerk chicken and BBQ snapper fish to our heart's content. Turns out, Belizean food is amazing and filled Mico's Filipino heart right up!
The Split is a really unique part of Caye Caulker because it was recently created by a hurricane, but in all honestly, it kind of disappointed us. We found it better to hang out close to the docks for some beach time and let Evie chase coconuts til she nearly dropped dead of exhaustion.
The last stop on day 1 was to see some sting rays that cmoe right up on the beach. This is actually a pretty freaky experience because... you know... Steve Irwin... but these gentle creatures are stunning and the sunsets from their side of the island are top notch.
For our second day in Caye Caulker, we went scuba diving! Belize has some of the best scuba diving in the world, and diving here has been on our bucket list since we got certified to dive in 2017. Even if you aren't a certified diver, we highly recommend doing a discovery dive in Belize to really get a good look at the incredible underwater world here. This was easily our favourite part of our 48 hours in Belize, and had us totally exhausted! We spent the rest of the day chilling on the beach, but you'll just have to take our word for it as we didn't film it :)
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== Chapters ==
0:00 First impressions of Caye Caulker
7:44 Giant tarpons
10:30 Tying Belizean food
15:55 Not what we hoped
17:47 Much better
20:18 Sting rays!
25:00 The real reason we came to Belize
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