A Few Pictures From Belize

I spent the past week doing technical training with Environmental Education trainees in Armenia, a village south of Belmopan on the Hummingbird Highway. A women's group has established a program called Hummingbird Homestays, and so we each stayed with a host family. Part of our trainging included planning an environmental camp with a youth group for the younger children in the village. Armenia is a guardian community of St. Herman's Blue Hole National Park, which is comanaged by Belize Audubon Society. A guardian community refers to a commmunity that buffers a protected area.

My tech training group also visited various workers in the environmental field, such as park managers, tour guides, Belize Tourism Board, Belize Audubon Society, and Protected Areas Conservation Trust. We had some time for adventures such as hiking, birdwatching, and caving. Here are a few photos I shot this week. Plus I want to mention that I added a link to my flickr photo album where I have posted more pictures from Belize.