A traveller to Belmopan is faced with the most basic of all existential questions: what the heck am I doing here?
The city was founded only in 1961 after a hurricane devastated most of the previous capital (Belize City). Someone then got this brilliant idea: why don’t we move out to the middle of nowhere with the government and a bunch of public servants? Said and done – Belmopan was founded.
Today, the city in the middle of nowhere has grown to the fantastic size of 8100 inhabitants and it is easy to understand that the capital hasn’t really caught up yet. If you are not an ambassador, minister, Member of Parliament nor some kind of a public servant, there should only be one possible answer to the question above: ‘changing buses’. Otherwise you are mad.
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