Belize City (population 60,000) sucks. Crack addicts, muggers, deranged loafers, unprovoked verbal abuse of the anti-whitey variety. A spoonful of water from its rancid canals, if strategically distributed, would wipe out the People's Republic of China. Belize City's got the lot.

You take a long, hard look at Belize City (from a reinforced hotel window if you're wise) and you think uncharitable things.

Then you leave. Everyone does. And you hit the rest of Belize, which is beautiful.