ancient ruins
Lamanai
A Maya site reached by river boat through jungle and lagoons, with the impressive Mask Temple and howler monkeys in the surrounding canopy.
16 km · about 30 min drive
Orange Walk District, Belize · North America
Shipyard is worth a stop: 20 minutes from Guinea Grass, 16km from Lamanai.
Shipyard is a town located in Orange Walk District, Belize. With a population of 4,070, it is an important destination in North America.
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Shipyard, also called Shipyard Colony, is a Mennonite settlement that is also an administrative village in the Orange Walk District of Belize.
Shipyard was founded in 1958 by Old Colony Mennonites from Chihuahua and Durango states in Mexico. It consists of more than 20 camps (German: "dörfer"), which have German namesRead more
like "Blumenort" or "Hochfeld", but outside the Mennonite community they are referred to only by numbers, e. g. "Camp 5" instead of "Reinfeld".
Most of the population of Shipyard are Plautdietsch-speaking ethnic Mennonites, living in a very integrated community where most of them work as carpenters, farmers and mechanics. Most Mennonites of Shipyard are quite traditional in lifestyle, still using horse and buggy for transportation and tractors with steel wheels for fieldwork. Compared with other Mennonites in Belize, Shipyard is more conservative than Spanish Lookout and Blue Creek, but more modern concerning the use of technology than Upper Barton Creek, Springfield and daughter colonies.
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Shipyard is located in Orange Walk District, Belize, North America. The coordinates are 17.8938 latitude, -88.6545 longitude.
Shipyard has a population of approximately 4,070 people, making it a town in Belize.
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ancient ruins
A Maya site reached by river boat through jungle and lagoons, with the impressive Mask Temple and howler monkeys in the surrounding canopy.
16 km · about 30 min drive
Year-round
Tropical latitude: plan around the wet season rather than temperature.
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