Day 1: Welcome to Belize
Airport reception and transfer to your hotel for two overnights.
Day 2: Lamanai Maya Temples (Meals: Breakfast / Lunch)
Lamanai is a Mesoamerican archaeological site, and was once a major city of the Maya civilization, located in the north of Belize, in Orange Walk District. The site’s name is pre-Columbian, recorded by early Spanish missionaries, and documented over a millennium earlier in Maya inscriptions as Lam’an’ain. Visit the Jaguar Temple, the High Temple and the Ball court where the Maya played their famous ballgame. Be one with the Maya amid the chatter of birdlife and the
haunting call of the howler monkeys. Guides also point out various trees and plants (copal, ramon, cotton, allspice) which played a major role, both medicinally and as a food source, to the Maya in ancient times.
Day 3: Cave Tubing & Belize Zipride / Transfer to San Ignacio, Cayo (Meals: Breakfast / Lunch)
Thrill seekers will love zipping along a series of cables, criss-crossing over the rainforest canopy on seven zip runs ranging in length from 200’ to 675’. Then float on your personal tube assisted by gentle currents taking you through an underground cave system. Intricate crystalline formations line the caves and stalagmites and stalactites add to the serene opulence of nature.
Continue to San Ignacio, Cayo where you will stay two overnights.
Day 4: Xunantunich Maya Temples & Barton Creek Caves by Canoe (Meals: Breakfast / Lunch)
Visit the ancient Maya city of Xunantunich for an opportunity to view original carved monuments depicting Maya rulers and warriors in their full regalia and journey 130 feet to the top of “El Castillo” to capture a panoramic view of the Belize River Valley. Then continue to Barton Creek Cave in Amish territory. Gently paddle your canoe into Xibalba (she-bal-ba), Maya for underworld. You will be dazzled by the glistening crystalline formations and awed by the Maya artefacts secretly tucked away in overhead alcoves.
Day 5: Transfer to Belize City / Belize International Airport (Meals: Breakfast)
Hotel checkout and 9:00 AM departure for return drive to Belize City where the tour ends with a drop-off at the Belize International Airport if you have an outbound flight, or the Municipal Airport if you have an onward connection to Ambergris Caye, Placencia or another destination within Belize
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• At the time of booking, IF the originally quoted hotels are not available, similarly rated hotel will be booked. Price is subject to change due to availability.
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