belize and mayan and tours -- special deals belize tours

Belize Eco-Tours will still customize your trip to fit any of your Belize Travel needs. However, we have come up with a few really fun ideas and incorporated wonderful cultural activities into some small packages that you can choose from or put together for a large package.

Let us put one or more of these mini-packages together with transportation to any other areas you wish to visit. Or let us design a trip to fit your needs. We have many surf & turf packages and also great honeymoon/romantic getaway packages. Diving or jungle, we can do it all. Tell us what interests you and we can put it all together with an itinerary and price.

Hopkins 3 night package

Hopkins is a Garifuna Village on the coast of mainland Belize with beautiful sandy beaches. There Garifuna drummers on most nights in the center of town. Anytime there are weddings, wakes, births or other celebrations, everyone is invited to join in. Since these are impossible to predict, you have to take your chances. A 3-night package includes accommodations and tax in a private cabana at Hopkins, right on the beach. The cabana is clean and comfortable with a double bed, private bath w hot/cold, 24 hour electricity fans, small refrigerator and coffee maker. Continental breakfast is included. You will also enjoy a typical Garifuna meal, cooked by a local Garifuna woman in her yard under a mango tree. A local Garifuna guide will take you fishing for the day using a hand line. Bring your fish back into town to a local restaurant to have them prepare it for you.

Gales Point

Gales Point is a typical Creole Village. This beautiful village is located on the tip of a peninsula in the southern lagoon. The lagoon is home to many manatees and also is a nesting area for turtles. Local Creole families live in the village and you can wander around and explore and talk with locals. There are some small restaurants to stop and sample some of the food or have a cold beer and chat. A 3-night package includes a room at a clean and comfortable hotel, right on the point with private room with two double beds, private bath, 24 hour electricity and ceiling fans. Meals are included in the package and local Creole women cook local foods at the hotel. Also included are a drumming demonstration and one drum lesson on drum making (small bamboo finger drum) and unlimited use of canoes and a small sailboat to explore the lagoon. Birding is excellent in this area. Transfers to and from International airport are included, one way will be by boat from Belize City or to Belize City through the lagoon and mangrove rivers with an excellent naturalist guide the other by road.

Crooked Tree

Crooked Tree is small Creole village for the true nature and bird lover. This beautiful wildlife sanctuary offers incredible birds that are not seen in other areas. The lagoon attracts all types of herons, kingfishers, hawks and during their season Jabiru Storks and Wood Storks. Cashew trees are numerous in Crooked Tree and most cashews and cashew products come from this region. This is also an area where you will find many log wood trees, as well as other hardwoods and lots of fruit trees. The beautiful lagoon is home to crocodiles, iguanas and other wildlife. Included are three night’s accommodations at a local hotel, right on the lagoon. The rooms are clean and comfortable and have two double beds, private bath with hot/cold, 24 hour electricity and fans. A full day tour to Lamanai Ruins begins early morning with a drive to The New River where you will meet your boat. Your boat takes you up the New River. This beautiful jungle river offers an abundance of wildlife. Your guide will point out monkeys, crocodiles, iguanas and much more wildlife. He will also point out an incredible array of birds, mostly water birds such as tiger herons, boat billed herons, Great Blue heron, blue heron, egrets and if you are lucky the wood stork and Jabiru stork. The river opens up into a large lagoon and Lamanai ruins is situated on the edge of the lagoon. Your guide will give you a full tour of the Maya site and you will have lunch before returning back to the road and van to return to your hotel. Also included is an early morning tour of the lagoon by boat with an excellent birding and naturalist guide and a two-hour late afternoon nature walk with guide. Your final day includes a transfer to and tour of the Baboon Sanctuary. Although the local name for these monkeys is Baboon, they are really Howler Monkeys. Entrance fee and guide are included.

Cayo District

The Cayo District is home to many Mayan Ruins, unbelievable caves and beautiful jungle rivers. This package is designed to see the modern Mayan, as well as visit ancient sites. Included are three night accommodations in a private room with private bath in a jungle lodge, located 4 miles into the jungle form the main highway and right on the beautiful Macal River. Your room has two queen beds, private hot/cold bath, ceiling fans and private screened porch. The resort is run by generator and electricity goes off at 10:00. There are oil lamps in all the rooms and it is nice and cool in the mountains at night. This lodge has excellent birding and beautiful jungle surroundings. Accommodations, tax and service charge are all included. Dinner the first night, three meals on day two and three and breakfast on day four are also included.

Tours:

A full day tour that includes the Mayan site of Xunantunich with an English speaking guide, entrance fees, lunch will be with a local Mayan Tour guide and his family at his home with typical Mayan foods and a stop at the Garcia Sisters gift shop for local slate carvings, Mayan medications and more. Explore Flour Camp Cave by horseback or hiking. The hiking portion includes a trip by canoe from the cave area down the Macal River to duPlooy’s. A guided tour of the cave and entrance fees are included. Final day includes a guided tour of the Maya Medicine Trail and Botanical Gardens. Not only will you learn about medicinal plants of the Maya, you will see a typical Mayan hut and how the early Mayan lived.