The Belize Festivals You Should not Miss in Might 2024

When you’re a fan of all issues Belize, you won’t want a lot of an excuse to pack your baggage and plan your subsequent journey. However simply in case you wanted additional incentive, the month of Might is teeming with loads of good causes to journey: from good climate to a number of actions. That features two can’t-miss Belize festivals, each of that are taking place within the south. This month, look to the Stann Creek and Toledo Districts for distinctive and enjoyable experiences which can be certain to make your Belize trip one to recollect. 

Might seventeenth – nineteenth – The Chocolate Competition of Belize 

Beloved for millennia, the cacao fruit (and extra so its most well-known byproduct, chocolate) has a whole pageant devoted to it in Belize. It makes loads of sense when you think about that the nation is residence to a burgeoning chocolate trade—and much more so contemplating Belize’s wealthy Mayan heritage. 

This Might, head south to the cacao capital of Belize—the Toledo District—for the annual Chocolate Competition. It options three days of family-friendly enjoyable together with a Chocolate Gala to be hosted at Copal Tree Lodge.  Dubbed the signature occasion of the pageant, the Chocolate Gala will carry collectively chocolatiers and chocolate lovers for an evening of sampling, dancing, and socializing. Tickets (which could be bought on-line)  are BZ$75/pp (US $37.50)  and embody two complimentary grownup drinks.

The next day will characteristic a pop-up market devoted to celebrating all issues chocolate. Happening proper inside Punta Gorda City, the Have fun Chocolate Market will supply festivalgoers the prospect to find a wide range of chocolate distributors, artisans, and entrepreneurs. And, lastly, on Sunday, the pageant closes off with a pleasant soccer competitors within the village of Large Falls. 

With the distinctive and off-the-beaten-path Toledo district as its setting, Belize’s annual Chocolate Competition is bound to be a delight. You may study extra by following the pageant on Fb.

Might seventeenth & 18th – Belize Songwriter Competition 

Picture Credit score: The Belize Assortment

For the music followers, set your sights north of Toledo: the tiny seaside village of Hopkins will as soon as once more be the setting for the Belize Songwriter Competition. The second iteration of this nation music pageant contains a slew of songwriters and musicians set to carry out over the course of two days. 

All of it begins on Might seventeenth with the Lodge at Jaguar Reef and Mango’s Bar because the setting for what’s anticipated to be dynamic performances. Visitors might be handled to the musical stylings of Jamie Paulin, Tyler Farr, and Lucas Hoge (host of Hoge Wild and founding father of the pageant) in addition to Nate Kenyon and beloved Belizean musician Kylon Eiley. 

Then, on Might 18th, festivalgoers will get to do it yet again, this time with Rodney Clawson, Phillip Lammonds, and Trent Tomlinson acting at Jaguar Reef whereas Andrew Wiscombe and Stephen Covell will carry out subsequent door at Playbar. With slightly below two weeks to go, there’s nonetheless time to e book your Belize Songwriter Competition Tickets in addition to e book your lodging for the night time at one in every of 4 idyllic Belize Assortment resorts. 

Featured Picture courtesy of the Belize Chocolate Competition