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Value Belize: Mayan mountains and Caribbean caye

9 days from £1,700pp

(based on two people sharing & excluding flights)

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Overview & Highlights

This short holiday takes you to the heart of Belize’s Mayan mountains with their forests, waterfalls, wildlife spotting and snorkelling at a laidback reefside caye.

An economical holiday where you choose to visit Mayan ruins swathed in jungle, go abseiling, river or cave tubing, hiking, horse riding or biking along woodland trails; or just relax in your jungle lodge watching birds and curious mammals.

Continue by light aircraft to Ambergris Caye, a stunning coral island of chalk white, palm-shaded sands in the Caribbean. Life here is totally laid back, but you can be as active as you like with fantastic snorkelling at the Blue Hole and other water-sports available from your beach-side resort.

Guided excursion to Caracol Mayan ruins

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Outline itinerary

Day 1

Arrive Belize City and transfer to San Ignacio

Day 2

Day at leisure in the Cayo district: outdoor activities and ruins

Day 3

Day at leisure to visit ruins or active adventures

Day 4

Visit the Mayan ruins at Caracol

Day 5

Outdoor adventures in Mountain Pine Ridge

Day 6

Fly to Caribbean island Ambergris Caye.

Day 7

At leisure on the beach, optional watersports

Day 8

Explore Ambergris Caye.

Day 9

Fly back to Belize airport and connect with your international flight. UK clients arrive home the following day.

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Things to do

We proudly offer the widest range of activities, excursions and one-of-a-kind experiences across all our destinations, tried and tested personally by our travel experts.

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Visit Tikal, ruined Mayan city

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Go Caribbean snorkelling off Belize’s coast

Go tubing through sacred Belize caves

Visit Caracol Mayan ruins

Visit a Mayan cave tomb

Cycle to Xunantunich Mayan ruins

Accommodation

Browse our unrivalled portfolio of accommodation . Every option has been carefully chosen by our team of travel experts, so you can rest assured that you’ll relax in utter comfort.

Belize / Maya mountains and jungle

Gaia Riverlodge

Belize / Caribbean cayes and coast

SunBreeze Hotel

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What our clients say

A well planned trip covering all the highlights we wanted to see. A great trip, thoroughly enjoyed by a good group (of 8) that gelled well. We saw so much,…

GP, Woking
The bright colours of the towns and cities, buildings, fruit and vegetables, flowers and trees!

CS, Guildford
The tour was well paced for our age group with enough leisure time to do your own thing or just chill. One of the best holidays I have ever been…

JM, Buckhurst Hill
Difficult to say as it was a trip of contrasts - two cities and some beautiful landscapes. I achieved two ambitions which was to visit the Torres del Paine National…

TW, Hook
I had a brilliant trip. The experiences were varied the people great company and the tour leader exceptional. What’s not to love!

HL, Newcastle
Overall an absolutely fantastic holiday. Arranged at last minute, there is no way that we would have been able to organise something like this on our own. Everything ran smoothly,…

RB, Kettering

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Sally Dodge - Travel Expert

A former Journey Latin America tour leader, Sally spent 7 years working, travelling and living throughout Latin America before returning to the UK to help people arrange their own adventures to this wonderful destination.
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Kathryn backpacked across Argentina, Chile, Bolivia and Peru before joining us. She has a degree in Philosophy and French and is a keen netball player.
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Ben fell in love with Latin America on a six month backpacking trip from Colombia to Mexico in 1995. Since then he has explored most of South America, including living in Peru for a year. He is now Head of Sales.
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Charlotte's fascination with Latin America began with a family holiday to Belize. She went on to study Spanish in school and at university before spending a year living in Santiago, Chile.
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After graduating with a degree in Anthropology and History and having been fascinated by Latin America since childhood by the book featuring photos of Nazca, Juliet first visited the region in 2003. Since then, Juliet has visited the majority of countries in Latin America but has particularly extensive experience with Peru, a country she loves for many reasons but not least, its incredible archaeological richness and delicious food!
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Anglo-Peruvian Chris grew up in Lima and spent much of his adult life in between London and Cusco as a tour leader, before settling permanently in our London-based Tailor-made and Group Tours sales team.