Located a short flight or ferry from the capital Belize City, Caye Caulker is one of the most popular islands in Belize. Although it’s the second largest of the Belizean cayes, it’s only 4 miles long with the village only stretching about a mile long.
Visitors quickly learn that life moves a little slower on this chilled out Caribbean island! Learn how to get to Caye Caulker here.
Below are a few photos from our trip to Caye Caulker
This is the Caye Caulker airport. Baggage claim is the purple cart.
This is by far the smallest airport we’ve ever visited.
The slogan of Caye Caulker – “Go Slow”
This street mural greets visitors at the small ferry terminal.
The dock in front of Tsunami Adventures.
Fresh fruit juice from a local street vendor.
Delicious plate of Caribbean Jerk Chicken.
A Canadian beach bar where we watched the hockey playoff games.
Just another day at the office on the island.
Shaded hammocks on one of several docks.
Children attending an outdoor classroom on the beach.
Island transportation. There are no cars on the island, only bikes and golf carts.
The popular Lazy Lizard beach bar at The Split.
Soft pastel Belizean sunset
Dock at sunset – the perfect place to end another day in paradise.
Small fishing boat in front of a Dive Shop.
Cold Belikin Beer at sunset – the beer of choice in Belize
The main street at night – this is about as busy as it gets!
The beachfront super market at night
A couple returning from a snorkeling trip to Hol Chan Marine Reserve.
Afternoon happy hour at a beach beer – a favourite past time on the island!
Enjoying the sunset at the Lazy Lizard
Have you visited Caye Caulker, Belize?
If not, is it on your travel wish list?
Lovely photos! Really brings me back to Belize 😀
I was working in Guatemala for 3 months a few years ago and my co-workers and I managed a weekend break to Tobacco Caye in Belize. It’s to the south a ways from Caye Caulker and slow definitely describes the time there lol
Drinking some soda pops, eating some conch, and Settlers of Catan. The only tricky part was trying to stop saying “Gracias” all the time. After spending the 2.5 months in Guate to that point it had become our ingrained Canadian response of thankfulness 😉
I love your site! Keep up the great wonderments and we’ll have to share stories some day!
Thanks for the kind words – glad you’re enjoying our site! Always nice to get positive feedback. Cheers! 😉
Great pics. I know so little about Belize. Clearly it needs to go on the list!
Thanks Jeff – indeed, add it to your list! 🙂
Great photos and of course you had to include the beers! 🙂
What can I say… beer makes the beach that much better! ;-0
This looks amazing! Your photos are making Shirlene and I reconsider Belize as our next travel destination for diving!
It’s a pretty cool country, not what you would expect from Central America. Definitely more Caribbean flavour going on in Belize
I LOVED this city, thank you for taking me back to it.
I thought you’d like a trip down memory lane! Glad you enjoyed the post Alex. Cheers!
Love the motto “Go Slow”! I think we all could use a little of this. It’s amazing to me how pictures can really affect my moods. These really made me feel more relaxed and at ease. Thanks for this on a Monday morning! Beautiful, I can see why you like it 🙂
Glad it brightened your mood 🙂
Life should move a little slower everywhere. But this island looks like it helps you remember that.
Yes, it’s hard to not relax when on the island.
Gotta visit that airport. Enough said about that! How cool.
It was pretty funny when we showed up. They wanted to take our bags but it was only 10 feet away from where we were dropped off by the plane.
Nice pictures! Looks like Caye Caulker has hardly changed since I was last there in 1999 – I stayed there several times in the late 90’s. I used to live in Utila and travel up and down the coast from Honduras to Mexico via Belize. Such a relaxed place – and great diving too!
Yes – some great diving spots along that coast. Glad to here that not much has changed, it would be a shame to have the island over develop
I’ve been on a short trip to Belize before, but looks like I missed out on part of the best stuff that Belize has to offer. I just might stop by another time! Love this post!
It’s definitely a must visit when in Belize. We also really liked Placencia and San Pedro – each town has a distinctly different vibe.
Ahhh, paradise! I haven’t been yet, but Beth went with her family a few years back and loved it. Nice job on the photos too! They did the trick.
Thanks Randy – glad you like the pics! 🙂
Great photos, I did love how things were so slow there.
Yeah, if you can’t relax on Caye Caulker you’ve got a problem
That long wooden deck just draws your vision out into that beautiful blue ocean. Also, thought the jerk chicken looked sooooo delish!
That was some of the best jerk chicken I had on our trip to Central America – but the picture fails to show off the oceanfront views!
Great pictures of Caye Caulker guys. I was just there and really enjoyed the laid back pace – or should I say “going slow”. The funny thing is that I have some of the same shots that you have taken but it is nevertheless very interesting to see how differently we see the same subject. I love the two hammocks swinging if front of Yuma’s on the beach. Did you ever eat at Panda’s the Chinese food restaurant?
No, we didn’t get to Panda’s the Chinese food restaurant. We’ll have to check it out next time.
I love places with no cars or transportation apart from bikes and golf carts – makes anyplace so much more relaxing. That outdoor classroom on the beach is a fantastic (but distractingly beautiful) place to have class!
There are so few places with no cars which makes Caye Caulker unique – but you have to be okay to walk to most places. That said, everything is within about 15 minutes.
I could comment on the great photos and write-up but I’d prefer to ramble on a bit about hockey. I grew up on Vancouver Island (Gold River) as a die-hard Blackhawks fan constantly getting ridiculed for NOT liking the Canucks. I was thrilled when the Hawks finally hoisted the cup in 2010. When you guys took us out in game 7 of OT this spring it was a big letdown, but I must admit I was really rooting for you to win it all because the majority of my mates are Nucks fans & you guys have never hoisted Lord Stanley before. What do you think of the off-season moves so far – disappointed about losing Erhoff? The other thing I wondered is if you play fantasy hockey. I’ve been running a Yahoo Fantasy Sports league for 6 years for expats if you’d like to join this fall.
Haha, blackhawks fan huh? We were really hoping you didn’t beat us agan! That would have been horrible. We would have loved to see the Canucks win the cup but maybe next year. We are both very active in hockey pools. Be sure to send us the details.
Oh wow, haha, that is a tiny airport! Great photos =)
Thank you!
Great photos! I was there last year for a week, and it is definitely laid back… 🙂
Hope you had a great trip!
That looks like one of those places I’d just get sucked into… it’s hard being a digital nomad at the beach 🙂
Agreed. It can sometime be rough 🙂
The sunsets in Belize are the best!
We enjoyed a couple beautiful sunsets too! They are great.
Wonderful photos that really bring the island to life. The “laid back” attitude makes it sound like my kind of place.
Love the photographs, makes the laid back attitude of the island come to life and makes me really want to visit!
Thanks Gene, glad you enjoyed the pictures (it was fun taking them!)