SWISS and GERMAN couple stay at Falconview Backpackers Adventure Hostel

* Patricia and Marcus - GOOD LUCK TO THEM!
* Swiss German Patricia Degen driving the side car German motorcycle
* Marcus Jacob German in the sidecar.

This couple have an interesting story. They have been on the road around the world exploring for 18 months. They had even helicoptered into the wild mountains last July of the Russian KAMCHATKA Peninsular. A notoriously forbidden terrain with wild Siberian climate and rugged mountains. They took 40 days to hike out to civilization. Recently they flew into San Francisco California from India. They had explored the Indian continent and climbed mountains in Nepal over 16,000 feet. It gets really hard to breathe up that high alone, never mind carrying backpacks. In California they bought this 2005 German sidecar motorcycle and are on their way through Central America and South America ending up they hope in Brazil eventually. I hadn't seen a motorcyle like this since World War 2. Here in Western Belize they went to the ATM cave trip and are now going to stay with some German speaking old style, survivalist type Mennonites in Barton Creek.

Barton Creek Tourist destination.

The Barton Creek Cave trip is by canoe and while not that impressive, if you are a survivalist type, it is way back in the boonies among the old time Mennonite farms, where they do everything with horses, shun modern electronics and gasoline engines. There are even a number of survivalist farms back there into organic self sufficiency. Barton Creek locally is famous for the potato production agriculturally speaking. This cave entrance starts just beyond a creek side camp ground in an orchard, on the side of Barton Creek, where it turns against an overhead cliff and hill ridge, forming a great swimming hole, with ropes strung from trees. Backpackers like it, with their own tents. Barton Creek has a big open sided lodge type structure, on which you can sling a sleeping bag in case it rains. Sometimes they have soft drinks imported from the Twin Towns about 30 miles away. The road getting in there is very rough and the last mile access has to ford the creek, about eighteen inches deep up to your axles on a car, over a gravel creek bottom. It is expensive getting a ride into this remote area. Though the proprietors of Barton Creek Lodge go back and forth shopping to the Twin Towns usually once a day and can arrange a ride for long time campers. You have to pay for renting the canoes to go into the low cave system with a guide. They only have a few canoes, about four. There are a couple of guides working this tourist destination out of the Twin Towns Tourist Operators. Not sure if you can contact them through Pacz tours or not, but I suspect so.