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Salamander Belize

Where: 18 km North of San Pedro, San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize

The Salamander Belize is located outside of San Pedro in Ambergis Caye, Belize.  This very remote, solar-powered hotel has eight cabanas or "huts" running from $180 a night. They come with hardwood floors, bathrooms with running hot and cold water and best of all they sit on the beach, perfect for snorkel and dive afficionados.

And just a 30-minute boat ride from the hotel is the famous diving spot, the Blue Hole, where the water is so deeply blue that one can even see it from outer space.

The hole was formed after the Ice Age caused the existing dry cave system to collapse (we aren't scientists so visit Blue Hole on National Geographic.) At first this diver's heaven was thought to be bottomless until Jacques Cousteau measured it with a mini-sub and found it to be 400 feet deep and 1,000 feet in diameter.

If you are heading that way, you can hit up closer hotels in San Pedro, or stay at the Salamander.

But since this is Belize, a tropical destination, there are some bugs:

Keep your cabin door closed and your porch light off at the end of the day and you should be fine, we did not need nets over the bed. On a still day we left the porch light and coming back from dinner you could see a mat of mosquitos gathered in the thatches above the porch (door was closed).

So just remember to bring bug spray.

Related Stories:
· Salamander Belize reviews [TripAdvisor]
· The Blue Hole [Budget Travel Online]
· Blue Hole [National Geographic]