I did the cave tubing and zip lines in belize at jaguar paw.The zip lines arent real long, but they're fun. The cave tubing was a kick, nice a cool.
I was so tempted to yell, "anachonda' when a large group of noisy ship cruise people kept yelling and talking loud in the tour that came from behind and couldn't wait to get ahead of us, while we leisurely floated through the caves and enjoyed the trip.
The cruise line tours are actually a shorter route. They jump in the river closer to the end, we hiked through the jungle alot further and got in way up from them, and got a lot more ride for the money.
The gaps where there are opening from the jungle into the caves look so cool, like a scene from some dinosaur movie or something
You'll enjoy it.
I just wish the zip lines were longer, but they're fun, and the tour guides we had were cool guys. I think they're belizean soldiers.
They did tell us on the hike up through the jungle to jump in the river, "rebels used to rob guys on this trip last year, so they'd have money to fund their fighting', so have fun
If you spend the night at one of the jungle spa's or resorts and venture out, you might find a mantis or so, but they do have alot of venomous snakes there.
BTW stash your shoes when you go caving, cause one guy in my groups shoes were missing when we got back to the lodge. They give you neoprene shoes to wear while caving, and tell you nobody steals shoes so don't worry about them, but his came up missing, so stash them somewhere, or keep them in the vehicle.
I didn't get to the mayan ruins, though I'd liked to, but I spent several days on caye caulker on the white coral beaches, and snorkeling from a glass bottom boat at the barrier reef there.
Saw purple skirted jelly fish, baracuda, sharks, rays, and lots of colorful fish and conks and coral everywhere at the reef. The water between the reef and caye, quite a ways out, is rarely ten feet deep, usually shallower.
There's a canadian woman there named Heather that has a guide business and she is cool to dive with.
Took me out free the second dive I went with , just cause I had missed the guided tour and she had room on the boat she took her friends out on. Cool chick
I'm shaggy and my buddy is really clean cut, and I got asked at least ten times walking down the beach, everytime, if I wanted ganja, he never got asked.
He said that's the difference appearance makes.
He also said they'd check me at customs, and not him, and he was right
, but they didn't harass me though.
Cigarettes were $15 a carton at the duty free, two years ago, with first carton free, and $4 tax on each additional carton.
I don't smoke but I brought some back for family, at $19 a carton I figured I bring some back for them.
I wasn't doing mantis' then, so I don't know, but there's plenty of bugs there
Thats british army domain. They protect their interest in the belizian oil deposits
BTW Don't drink the water, it's all bottled water, and there's alot of theft there, so don't take anything you can't afford to lose. Security guards everywhere, and it's a very little maintained road kinda place. Especially in belize city
We didn't see any, but watch out for rebel robbers, or maybe you'll rob them...
It's not a place to go to thinking it'll be cheap, it's not. It's like US prices, but the belizian dollar was 2:1 with US dollar.
A ten dollar item here will cost you 20 belizian dollars there, and things aren't any cheaper there than they are here.
Lady there said if you get Montezuma's revenge that the local remedy is warmed up coke
