San Ignacio is a nice, relaxed small town in western Belize, considered the ecotourism center of the country. Lots of birds and birdsong in the air.
On the bus to Belmopán, then on to San Ignacio, I passed a continuous series of billboards encouraging citizens to vote “yes” on an upcoming referendum to allow the International Court of Justice to settle a longstanding land dispute between Guatemala and Belize.
Guatemala claims that the southern 43% of the country is rightfully their territory, and voted in a referendum last year to take their case to the international court. Although many legal analysts predict that Belize would win the court case, the stakes are very high in this small country with a total population of less than 400,000.
