Cave Tubing Jungle Adventure
 Cave Tubing Belize |
 Cave Tubing Belize |
Belize’s Most Popular Adventure Tour!
Belize’s longest and most spectacular “River of Caves”. Float underground on the Sibun River.
Enter the exciting world of rivers disappearing into the underworld as you float on inner tubes with only your headlamp to light your way. Float past side windows that filter the jungle light through the mist as you swirl around stalagmites jutting from the river and stalactites looming from above. Float past underground waterfalls then into the crystal cathedral, a spiritual center to the ancient Maya. Your native guide will walk you down our jungle track, pointing out the various medicinal trees and other flora, before splashing into the cool, easy flowing waters of the Sibun branch.
$175BZ per person. min. 2 people to confirm.
Includes lunch and entrance fees and local taxes.
Combine Cave Tubing with Zip line Canopy Tour or a Mayan Site for only $75BZ per person more.
 Lets go Cave Tubing |
 Zipline Canopy Tour |
Altun Ha Mayan Ruins and City Tour
 Altun Ha Mask |
 Altun Ha Maya Site |
Altun Ha ruins are famous because they found a Jade Head, which is the largest carved jade object in the whole Maya area. It is the national symbol of Belize, which you can see on every banknote. Altun Ha was a major ceremonial center in the Classic Period (250-900 AD) and functioned as a vital trading center linking the Caribbean shores with other Maya centers. After your visit to Altun Ha we stop for lunch. We journey back to Belize City, where we return back to Caye Caulker.
$160BZ per person.
Xunantunich Mayan Ruins and San Ignacio
 Xunantunich Maya Site |
 View from Xunantunich |
Spend the day exploring the Cayo district. An amazing view to Guatemala and surrounding rainforest. We start the day departing Caye Caulker at 6:30am. Our guide will take us an hour and half journey to San Ignacio. We make a few stops along the way to enjoy Belize countryside. We cross the Mopan River by ferry to take a walking tour of the ruins of Xunantunich. Xunantunich (shoo-NAHN-too-nich) means “Stone Woman” in the Maya language. Most of the structures date from the Maya Classic Era, about 200 to 900. Consisting of a series of six plazas surrounded by more than 26 temples and palaces. One of its structures, the pyramid known as “El Castillo,” the second tallest structure in Belize (after the temple at Caracol), at some 130 feet (40 m) tall.[1] Archeological excavations have revealed a number of fine stucco facades on some of the ancient temples of this site. Evidence of construction suggests the temple was built in three stages in the 600s AD, 700s AD, and 800s AD. The fine stucco or “frieze” are located on the final stage. After we are ready for lunch in San Ignacio town.
$230BZ per person
Combo with Cave Tubing $250BZ per person.
Combo with Cahal Pech Maya Site $250BZ per person.
Trip includes entrance fees, lunch and local taxes.
Lamanai Mayan Ruins and Jungle River Cruise
 Lamanai Maya Site |
 Lamanai Maya Mask |
Explore the ancient hidden ruins of Lamanai. Departing Caye Caulker on the 7:00am water taxi and reaching Belize Marine Terminal at 8am. Our guide meets us and brings us to Tower hill bridge, where we will start our journey down river to Lamanai, passing dense jungle vegetation and a Mennonite community. Located in the east-central part of the Orange Walk District. Focal points are a well-preserved mask of a Maya ruler emerging from a crocodile headdress. El Castillo rising 108 feet, is one of the largest pre-classic structures in the Maya area. This site was continuously occupied from 1500BC – AD1675. A variety of birds, crocodiles, howler and spider monkeys will greet you. Your guide is fully knowledgeable of the Flora, Fauna and Mayan History. A two hour guided walking tour of Lamanai visiting 4 main temples. Your guide also points out medicinal plants of the jungle. A delicious home cooked Belizean meal and local souvenir stands to enjoy. See ancient artifacts in the Lamanai Museum on site, entrance included. We journey back through the mazes of river to Tower Hill Bridge, where our guide is waiting to bring us back to the marine terminal or our hotel in Belize City, reaching approximately 430pm returning on the water taxi back to Caye Caulker.
$185BZ per person.
Trip includes entrance fees, lunch and local taxes.
Actun Tunichil Muknal Belize Cave Tour or ATM
For the fit and adventurous this is hands down the most talked about cave in Belize. Discovered in 1989 and open to the general public since 1998, the ATM cave is a full five kilometers deep. After a 45 minute hike in the cool tropical rainforest and across three streams you enter its hourglass-shaped mouth for a 10 meters swim in water at most 5 meters deep, to land on a rock shelf. The next 600+ meters is a journey of well over a half hour filled with many sharp & slippery edges, water depth alternates from just covering your toes to portions where only the tallest won’t need to swim. Along the way you pass many calcite formations, a few which have undergone minor sculpting (purpose unknown), by the Maya. After this distance, you ascend 2 or 3 meters to a shelf above the river. From this point forward is shallowed ground, where you walk barefoot (with socks only).
As you go forward you encounter increasing amounts of pottery of all sizes, their condition from near intact to completely shattered. Catalogued within the cave are over 1400 artifacts – pottery, tools, and ceremonial items dating from 1 to 1000 AD – including over 200 vessels. While over half of all the items appear in plain sight in small pools, they are also tucked away between stalagmites, on small, high shelves or other unusual places. The artwork found in Actun Uayazba Kab in unmatched when compared to any other site.
The deeper in the cave you go, the more recent the activities of the Mayas were. Use of the cave by the Mayas of the Late Preclassic (1 to 250 AD), tended to stay near the mouth of the cave, whereas later generations moved further into the cave, perhaps believing that this would bring them closer to the lords of Xibalba. The closer to the gods, the better the chance the ceremonies would be answered. Pottery of all sizes and styles lay within the cave, all broken to release the spirits contained within.
A not-so-common artifact are human remains. So far, remains from fourteen individuals have been found; 7 adults & 7 children, all under the age of 5. These are not the ceremonial burials found in the other two caves in the area, but are sacrificial victims. They were all likely sacrificed in the hopes of appeasing the gods and bringing rain. Young victims, particularly females, were important for rituals to be “zuhui” – pure & uncontaminated in the eyes of the gods. The Crystal Maiden was a young woman of about 20 years old whose complete remains lie at the back of the cave. It is believed that she was clubbed and left for dead, and with the passing of time she has been cemented to the floor in a layer of brown calcite. (To reach her final resting place, you must climb aluminum ladders mounted on a sheer rock face!) Don’t choose this tour if you are not an extreme adventure lover, it is not for the faint hearted!
$350BZD per person or $175USD per person, Min. 2 person required. Includes entrance fee, lunch and all private transfers to and from Belize City.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR TOURS
Lunch is either a sit down restaurant, picnic lunch or box to go lunch. Trips include private transportation that picks up in Belize City and returns. Trips are fully guided by licensed experienced Belizean Guide.
Round trip water taxi not included. Currently the round trip price is $35BZD dollars.
We also offer tours arranged to Burrell Boom Baboon Sanctuary, Crooked Tree, Horseback Riding, Inland Blue Hole (see Blue Hole page ) and more. We can arrange car rental for you as well as organize fully independent tours. Please do not hesitate to ask us for any information. Even if you have heard about a trip and you don’t see it here. Please ask us.
Here are so more options for Combo Tours.
Altun Ha and Baboon Sanctuary $250BZ per person
Altun Ha and Cave Tubing $250BZ per person
Altun Ha, Cave Tubing and Zipline $325BZ per person
Cahal Pech and Cave Tubing $250BZD per person
