How's the adventure travel and activities in and around Cayo, Belize, including San Ignacio and Belmopan?
Penny James - Better in Belize Eco Village
With 880,000 acres of national parks and nature reserves, you’ll never run out of places to run, jog, hike or explore! The district of Cayo boasts some of Belize’s best known attractions such as the ATM Caves aka Actun Tunichil Muknal; Adopt-an-Iguana program at the San Ignacio Resort Hotel; Actun Chapat and Actun Halal Caving Adventure; Belize Botanical Gardens; Blue Hole National Park; Cahal Pech ruins, Chechem Ha Cave; Clarissa Falls; Mountain Pine Ridge Forest...With 880,000 acres of national parks and nature reserves, you’ll never run out of places to run, jog, hike or explore! The district of Cayo boasts some of Belize’s best known attractions such as the ATM Caves aka Actun Tunichil Muknal; Adopt-an-Iguana program at the San Ignacio Resort Hotel; Actun Chapat and Actun Halal Caving Adventure; Belize Botanical Gardens; Blue Hole National Park; Cahal Pech ruins, Chechem Ha Cave; Clarissa Falls; Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve; Rio Frio Caves -which was rated by National Geographic as #1 of their Top 10 Sacred Caves; Tubing down the Mopan River, and Xunantunich.You can enjoy many adventure travel and activities in Cayo such as birdwatching, canoeing, caving, exploring Mayan sites, hiking, horseback riding, kayaking, mountain biking, pontoon boat rides on Vaca Lake, river tubing, rock climbing, spelunking, swimming, Ziplining. Within minutes of the Village of Benque Viejo, you can cross the border into Guatemala. Enjoy the trail to Xunantunich from the Guatemala side. Check out Tikal, Flores and Antigua and El Mirador, the recently discovered largest pyramid – by volume, not height – in the world. Fifteen times bigger than Tikal!
(Pictured: volunteers at "Wildtracks", a conservation program.)
Posted July 23, 2015
Hannah Weber - Vanilla Hills Lodge
The adventure travel in Cayo is great! Amazing! Awesome! Wonderful! There is no shortage of adventure travel and activities here in Cayo. The top thing to do in our area is to go to the ATM Cave (Actun Tunichil Muknal), which was named the #1 Sacred Cave in the world by National Geographic. It’s an amazing cave to visit. There are lots of other very nice caves that you can visit such as Che Chem Ha Cave, Offering Cave, Crystal Cave, Saint...
The adventure travel in Cayo is great! Amazing! Awesome! Wonderful! There is no shortage of adventure travel and activities here in Cayo. The top thing to do in our area is to go to the ATM Cave (Actun Tunichil Muknal), which was named the #1 Sacred Cave in the world by National Geographic. It’s an amazing cave to visit. There are lots of other very nice caves that you can visit such as Che Chem Ha Cave, Offering Cave, Crystal Cave, Saint Herman’s Cave, etc.
But you find lots of other activities in Cayo as well. You can go horseback riding to caves or temples. You can swim in rivers and waterfalls. Just recently, I drove down to Toledo and I did some waterfall rappelling. That’s not in Cayo but it’s close. You can also go cave tubing or zip lining in Cayo. There are exceptional Maya temple sites of different sizes.
(Cahal Pech Mayan temple, Cayo, Belize, pictured.)
Posted July 5, 2016