Arrival Belize

• Airport transfer

• Orientation

• Dinner

River Cruise + Lamanai

Skyway Hanging Bridge & Flores City

After breakfast, we transfer you to the border with Guatemala Tikal Hotel taxi will take you to your hotel in El Remate, close to Flores City, the Casa de Don David, which is in a beautiful lakeside location. There you will have lunch, after which the driver will take you to the Hanging Bridges of Ixpanpajul, and leave you to take a self-guided walk along the bridges which stretch for some 3 kilometres through the rainforest canopy and afford excellent opportunities for bird-watching. Your driver will come back for you at a prearranged time and take you to Flores City, where you will have perhaps an hour to explore that pretty little town. Then he will take you back to your hotel for dinner.

Tikal Tour

You will get up early (around 5am) and be taken to Tikal (about 20 minutes from the hotel) so that you can experience the sun rising over the pyramids. Breakfast is not provided by the hotel because you leave for Tikal so early, but can be purchased very cheaply in the park, Tikal is the most perfectly preserved ancient Mayan city in existence, and your English speaking guide will give you a highly informative tour which will last most of the morning. The hotel will have provided you with a lunchbox. After an opportunity for you to spend another couple of hours exploring the vast Tikal sight on your own, you will meet up with your tour vehicle and be transported to your hotel. You are likely to be pretty tired by now, but the lake and the village of El Remate present some opportunities for strolling and sight-seeing, if you have the energy..

ATM (Crystal Madam Cave)

If you opt for A.T.M. (Actun Tunichil Muknal, the "Cave of the Stone Sepulchre") you will breakfast at 7am and set off around 7.40am for your rendezvous with the A.T.M. tour vehicle at the village of Teakettle on the Western Highway. The underground exploration of the Tomb of the Crystal Maiden at Actun Tunichil Muknal is arguably not for the faint-hearted; but those who have done it often say it was the best thing about their trip to Belize.. It is an awesome experience that we have seen seven year olds and seventy year olds relish: but you need to be fairly confident in water, not to mind tight squeezes in small places, and to have fairly good knees for the climbing bits. You will know from the above description whether it is for you or not.

Option: Baboon Sanctuary & Belize City Museum Tour

Cave Tubing + Zip Lines  OR Cave Tubing + Belize Zoo

All in all, it’s an interesting day, perhaps all the more so because of the contrasting activities and the sense of symmetry: flying high and floating low, feeling the rush of air and the flow of water, the heat of the rainforest and the cool of the caves.  The memories of this day will stay with you, perhaps in years to come to “flash upon the inward eye, which is the bliss of solitude” in a quiet moment, on a different part of the planet.

Belize City/ Water Taxi /San Pedro

After breakfast, we will take you with your luggage to the water taxi terminal in Belize City for your 90 minute transfer by boat to Ambergris Caye (San Pedro). While on Ambergris Caye you will stay in a sea-front Hoyel for great views of the Caribbean. The hotel serves breakfast (included in your package), and for your other meals you will have a wide choice of restaurants within a walking distance of your hotel. Food on the Caye is cheap and plentiful, and "Happy Hour" is often "from 4pm 'til evribadi hapi". You will be free after lunch to explore San Pedro and perhaps indulge in a little shopping (some of the best shops in Belize are in San Pedro town).

Snorkel with Shark

Your snorkeling tour will take place after breakfast, and is provided by a premier snorkeling and diving company. You will enjoy world class snorkeling along the longest barrier reef in the Northern hemisphere, and at Shark/Ray Alley: expect nurse sharks, giant eagle rays, loggerhead turtles, moray eels, countless smaller tropical fish and abundant, multicoloured coral.

After the tour the rest of the day/evening is your own, to relax in the restaurant of your choice and enjoy the convivial atmosphere of Belize's premier holiday island.

Departure Day

Your package includes an return Water Taxi to Belize City, our driver will pick you up at the Water Taxi Terminal and transfer you to International Airport to take your departure flight