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Fixed date tours, Car, 4WD, Boat, Sailing boat, Family / Children, Culture, Gastronomy, Fair tourism, Industrial tourism, Ecology, Birdwatching, Wild animals, Marine animals, Horse, Excursion / trekking, Climbing, Fish, Diving
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Duration : 1 day
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Medium
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Medium
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full-Day Tours
Cave Tubing
From the very beginning of ancient Maya culture, caves played a major role in forming their distinctive worldview. In addition to their use as a water supply source, storage area and dump, the Maya considered caves to be a supernatural realm, the home of deities and ancestors. Vapor clouds forming at the mouth of caves suggested to the Maya that these were the places where the gods of nature-the source of rain, thunder and lightning.
Caving provides thrills to suit nearly any age and fitness level. After a brief 30-minute hike to the entrance of the cave, inner tubes are used to float along the Caves Branch River. See your light flicker upon strange shapes and the ultimate darkness beyond. Hear the echo of your own voice bounce off the distant walls. Listen to the water dripping from the ceiling, creating spectacular formations in the stunning chambers. And while you might be expecting dark and claustrophobic passageways, you are likely to find enormous chambers and cathedral- sized rooms.
Journey into Belize’s spectacular underground realm and take a trip back through time!
full-Day Tours
Cave Tubing
From the very beginning of ancient Maya culture, caves played a major role in forming their distinctive worldview. In addition to their use as a water supply source, storage area and dump, the Maya considered caves to be a supernatural realm, the home of deities and ancestors. Vapor clouds forming at the mouth of caves suggested to the Maya that these were the places where the gods of nature-the source of rain, thunder and lightning.
Caving provides thrills to suit nearly any age and fitness level. After a brief 30-minute hike to the entrance of the cave, inner tubes are used to float along the Caves Branch River. See your light flicker upon strange shapes and the ultimate darkness beyond. Hear the echo of your own voice bounce off the distant walls. Listen to the water dripping from the ceiling, creating spectacular formations in the stunning chambers. And while you might be expecting dark and claustrophobic passageways, you are likely to find enormous chambers and cathedral- sized rooms.
Journey into Belize’s spectacular underground realm and take a trip back through time!
Activities, services on this tour:
Fixed date tours, Car, Family / Children, Culture, Excursion / trekking
Fixed date tours, Car, Family / Children, Culture, Excursion / trekking
Duration : 1 day
Altun Ha
The first men in the Americas seem to have appeared between 15 – 20,000 years ago, during the fourth Ice Age. During the ice ages large parts of the earth were covered with ice, and much of the water of the oceans and rivers were frozen into ice. We really do not know how people first came to be in the Americas, but there is a theory that they came to America from Asia.
The Bering Straits are only 90 km wide, and between the main lands of Asia and North America there are three islands. The maximum distance between these islands is only 40 km, so that on a clear day land is always visible. Moreover, the Bering Sea is only 40 m deep, so that during the Ice Age parts of it could have frozen enough to form a land bridge. We can understand, then, how it was possible for wanderers rather than migrants, for the new comers did not plan to set up new homes when they came. Most likely, being hunters, they followed the herds of animals like giant mammoth, and continued to follow the herd with out knowing that they were in new land. They became the ancestors of the many Indians of the Americas.
The earliest Maya lived as long ago as 2000 B.C. in a forest region known as El Petén. For nearly 3,000 years, from 2000 B.C. Until about 900 A.D., they slowly developed the arts of their civilization. They became farmers; learnt to make fire and clay pots; constructed great stone buildings; painted murals which tell us a good deal about their lives. They had for example, developed a calendar as accurate as the Egyptians’.
The Maya homeland, called Mesoamerica, spans five countries: the southeastern extremities of Mexico, including all of the Yucatan peninsula, and much of northwestern Central America, including Belize, Guatemala, and the western parts of Honduras and El Salvador. All with in 324,000 sq km or 125,000 sq miles.
The first men in the Americas seem to have appeared between 15 – 20,000 years ago, during the fourth Ice Age. During the ice ages large parts of the earth were covered with ice, and much of the water of the oceans and rivers were frozen into ice. We really do not know how people first came to be in the Americas, but there is a theory that they came to America from Asia.
The Bering Straits are only 90 km wide, and between the main lands of Asia and North America there are three islands. The maximum distance between these islands is only 40 km, so that on a clear day land is always visible. Moreover, the Bering Sea is only 40 m deep, so that during the Ice Age parts of it could have frozen enough to form a land bridge. We can understand, then, how it was possible for wanderers rather than migrants, for the new comers did not plan to set up new homes when they came. Most likely, being hunters, they followed the herds of animals like giant mammoth, and continued to follow the herd with out knowing that they were in new land. They became the ancestors of the many Indians of the Americas.
The earliest Maya lived as long ago as 2000 B.C. in a forest region known as El Petén. For nearly 3,000 years, from 2000 B.C. Until about 900 A.D., they slowly developed the arts of their civilization. They became farmers; learnt to make fire and clay pots; constructed great stone buildings; painted murals which tell us a good deal about their lives. They had for example, developed a calendar as accurate as the Egyptians’.
The Maya homeland, called Mesoamerica, spans five countries: the southeastern extremities of Mexico, including all of the Yucatan peninsula, and much of northwestern Central America, including Belize, Guatemala, and the western parts of Honduras and El Salvador. All with in 324,000 sq km or 125,000 sq miles.
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