By Lan Sluder

Whether you're coming to Belize to live, to retire, to buy property, build a vacation home, attend college or medical school or just to experience a different culture, you're in for an adventure you'll never forget.

To start with, Belize is simply beautiful.  It is a place of incredible natural beauty, of mint-green or turquoise seas and emerald green forests, of the longest barrier reef in the Western or Northern hemispheres, with more kinds of birds, butterflies, flowers and trees than in all of the United States and Canada combined.  Massive ceiba trees and exotic cohune palms stand guard in rain forests where jaguars still roam free and toucans and parrots fly overhead.   Rivers, bays and lagoons are rich with hundreds of different kinds of fish.   Belize is one of the world's wild frontiers, a kind of pint-sized, sub-tropical Alaska.  See full article