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San Pedro Lobster Festival in San Pedro
San Pedro opens Belize's lobster season each summer with the longest of the country's three coastal lobster festivals, stretching across roughly two weeks rather than a single weekend. Restaurants compete with lobster prepared as ceviche, grilled, stuffed and beyond, alongside cooking competitions, street vendors, live music and beach parties. As Belize's most developed tourist town, San Pedro's version draws a larger and more resort-oriented crowd than Caye Caulker's or Placencia's parallel festivals.
San Pedro turns its opening week of lobster season into a nine-day-plus run of events each year, longer than either of its two peninsula and island rivals, starting with a kickoff party on Ambergris Caye and building toward a closing fiesta.