Letter from the Publisher

Welcome back to BELIZEmagazine.com - The Internet Magazine of Belize.

In this our third Edition of BELIZEmagazine.com, you will find eighteen articles, interviews and reports, complimented by over sixty previously unpublished photographs. We would like to thank our staff writers, photographers and in-house support for the hours upon hours of hard work required to bring you this edition of BELIZEmagazine.com - The Internet Magazine of Belize.

For their contributions, we would like to thank each of our contributing writers in this edition. Dr. Donald Simmons for his historical account "The City that was to Equal its Namesake", Dr. Bruce Minkin for the article about "Underground Ceremonial Sites" and Lisa Carne for her article about local Belizean plants. And for their account of their personal challenge in participating in the La Ruta Maya River Challenge 2004, we would like to thank BelizeRivers.org team mates, Indian Creek, Belize, villager Eduardo Pop, Lisa Toth and Tim Truman from Indianapolis, Indiana, USA.

We would also like to thank our advertisers for making this edition possible. As with all advertising revenues, a portion of all ad dollars from BELIZEmagazine.com go directly towards the funding of BelizeRivers.org, an environmental initiative for the promotion & protection of the rivers of Belize.

In closing, please enjoy BELIZEmagazine.com by using the arrows at the top and bottom of each page, just like turning the pages of a print magazine.