3 Places you don't want to miss in Belize: Cahal Pech, Rio On Pools and Caracol.

Adventures in Belize! Belize offers a truly wild and unspoiled setting for immersing yourself in nature and experiencing ancient Mayan sites. This travel vlog highlights Cahal Pech, Rio on Pools and Caracol, with notable pit stops at Monkey Falls and St. Hermans Blue Hole National Park located along the Hummingbird Highway. If you are seeking an archeological jungle adventure, Belize is a wonderful destination without huge crowds and plenty of space and freedom to explore. Stationing yourself close to San Ignacio will give you a perfect central location to a variety of Mayan sites, cave and tubing tours, hikes and waterfalls. Birds and butterflies are everywhere and this enchanting jungle has so much to enjoy. Cahal Pech and Caracol are inexpensive to enter between 5 and 10 US dollars or you can go on a tour. Tours here are much more of an investment, but are also wealth of information about the area and sites, so you do get what you pay for. As a student in art history, I studied the Art and Architecture of the Maya. Seeing these sites in person was incredible! We attended these sites by ourselves and found the experience of touring the liminal spaces to be magnificent. The more you know about the Mayan culture and site, the more rewarding your visit will be, so we suggest a tour if it is all new to you. We will definitely be going back to visit more sites in the future. Cahal PechThis site is in San Ignacio and very close to good lunch spots. It is the oldest site in Belize. Many unique and notable artifacts have been discovered here despite the intense looting the site has endured. Rio on Pools was mentioned to us as an add-on stop along the way to Caracol. To put it as an afterthought would be a mistake. This is a beautiful outcropping forming pools of water to swim in under dancing waterfalls. The waterfalls provide a flow you can float along or find a more gentle dip in areas to the edge and areas to use the bathroom and change are on site.CaracolThe largest Mayan archeological site in Belize is a bit further off the beaten path. The journey there takes you through a pine forrest reserve and past Rio on Pools. There are no stops for fuel or food out there, just the wild. The old logging road is being replaced with a paved road to give better access to Caracol. Once there, you can tour the large collection of stela (tall narrative stone carvings) they have preserved from the site. Cana (The Sky Palace) is the tallest man made structure in Belize, even today. This large Mayan city was estimated to have had a population around 140,000, over twice as big as Belize City is today. This was a strong civilization with extensive agriculture and city planning still evident today.
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[@killthisbody]

This video pleases me.

[@thepenguinandthecactus]

Excellent.

[@j1m3by]

Awesome! I'm wondering who is the penguin and who is the cactus? LOL Beautiful country. Needs more of your very capable voiceover descriptions of what we're looking at.

[@thepenguinandthecactus]

Thanks! This was just the first overview video. More detailed vids are coming soon!