The smallest airstrip we’ve ever visited – Caye Caulker, Belize
Life moves a little slower on Caye Caulker, the second largest of the Belizean cayes. The chilled out Caribbean island is only 4 miles long with the village section stretching no more than a mile.
Most visitors arrive to Caye Caulker via ferry or small aircraft, landing on the tiny airstrip pictured above. We shot some aerial footage of the Belize Barrier Reef from the window of the small aircraft, see the video here.
The small wooden building acts as customs, immigration, ticket sales and the passenger waiting room. That purple buggy you see in the front of the building is actually the “baggage claim”.
You know you’ve arrived somewhere special when the airport shuttle bus is a 6-seater golf cart!
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Have you visited Caye Caulker? What did you think?
Share you experiences in the comments section below, we’d love to read about it!
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I once visited Walker’s Cay, Bahamas for their shark diving and their landing strip is 2800 ft long, or only about 1/2 mile. To make it worse, when I got off the plane at the customs office (a small wooden stand, not even a building), I noticed pieces of a crashed plane right there next to the runway.
Yikes! That’s the last thing you want to see at an airstrip!
CAYE CAULKER! We loved Caye Caulker! We choose to take the water ferry, do to costs! This is the place where we first discovered people talking RTW and what a RTW was…and then we decided WE HAVE TO DO ONE TOO!!
It’s a cool place. I could easily lose a month there!
I just started reading your blog and it’s fantastic – great photos and writing!
This post reminds me that I really need to make it back to Belize. We went about 10 years ago and loved the jungle and San Ignacio, but a tropical storm dashed our plans of going to Caye Caulker and snorkeling. Next time we will try to avoid hurricane season!
Thanks so much for the kind words Jen!
We’re happy to hear that you’ve enjoyed reading our blog!
Nice place 🙂 How long did you stay there