Saturday, January 18, 2025 - Tuesday, January 28, 2025
Belize,
International,
Belize
Let's escape winter's grip in the place that coined the term ecotourism! This tropical getaway offers lots of warm adventure opportunities. We'll get to relax in an inland jungle lodge that's been run by a Belizean family for three generations - their hospitality is as genial as the climate, and the home-cooked food as fresh as the surrounding forest. Each day will offer a different natural or cultural adventure. There will be a canoe adventure on the Rio Macal right from the lodge. We'll see iguanas, monkeys, and crocs, and stop at a medicinal botanical garden along the way. Birders will be in their glory with the tremendous number of species found here, and we'll have expert guides to spot them for us. Other days we'll visit caves, waterfalls, and other natural wonders of the jungle. We'll go tubing in a crystal-clear spring fed cave and visit Mayan cultural sites. Our Belizean guides will show us all the natural and cultural wonders of their tropical homeland. Then we'll go on a river boating adventure into Northern Belize to an amazing Mayan city in ruins, as well as to a wildlife sanctuary on a lagoon. And, since Belize has more to offer than just inland jungle adventures, we'll begin on the Caribbean coast for three nights and take in the coastal sunshine on Caye Caulker, an offshore island close to the famed Hol Chan Marine Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site, where we can snorkel at the famed barrier reef offshore. January is the beginning of the dry season here. Expect temperatures to be comfortably warm with a possible good hot coastal day. The locals here are as friendly as the weather. And since Belize was once a jewel in the British Empire, English is the most common language among the other native tongues.
