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9-Nights Ultimate Belize: Placencia, Cayo District, and Ambergris Caye

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9-Nights Ultimate Belize: Placencia, Cayo District, and Ambergris Caye
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Ultimate Belize
The ultimate Belizean vacation with beaches, Mayan ruins and adventure! Visit two of Belize's most popular beach destinations; Placencia, where you will enjoy the rich Garifuna culture and the mainland's best beaches, and Ambergris Caye, the world's second-largest barrier reef. In between, go inland to the Cayo District and explore Mayan ruins as well as dazzling cave systems.

Includes:

  • All Air and Ground Transfers
  • 3 Nights Placencia
  • Monkey River Tour with Lunch
  • 3 Nights Cayo District
  • Xunantunich Maya Temples and Barton Creek Caves Tour with Lunch
  • 3 Nights Ambergris Caye
  • SNUBA Tour


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Placencia

Placencia

Belize's Placencia Peninsula, like Hopkins, appeals to those who want to combine a mainland vacation with seaside activities. Lying 114 mi/180 km by road south of Belize City, it offers a sleepy, almost South Pacific atmosphere, though a number of housing and condo developments are changing the peninsula, and not necessarily for the better.

You'll find a mix of budget and upscale lodges, some of Belize's best mainland beaches and several good restaurants and bars—hang out there for five days or so. Visitors can enjoy diving and snorkeling, although the reef is 15-20 mi/25-30 km offshore, requiring a long boat trip. Fishing is available, too, primarily for tarpon and bonefish. The area is known for its Creole seafood cuisine.

The peninsula community of Seine Bight is a Garifuna fishing village that experienced some culture shock because of the tourism development in this once-isolated area. After years of hoping, residents got their fondest wish when paving finally began on the 25-mi/40-km road from the Southern Highway to Placencia village.

An international airport just north of the peninsula serves inter-island air traffic as well as private planes.

Most visitors spend their days taking a series of day tours, which can be arranged locally. You can go by boat to Laughing Bird Caye National Park (excellent snorkeling there and at other sites on typical daylong snorkel tours), Monkey River (home of crocodiles, howler monkeys, boas and iguanas) or Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary.

Red Bank, southwest of Placencia, is a mostly Maya village famous among birders as the January-March home of the endangered and beautiful scarlet macaw. Other options include renting kayaks to search for manatees in the local lagoon or renting bikes to visit other parts of the peninsula.

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Cayo District

Cayo District

Cayo spans more than 2,000 square miles across diverse terrain, changing from lush river valleys and savannas, to jungle hillsides and rugged mountain ridges. With an estimated population of around 40,000, one of Cayo Districts most important industries is ecotourism. Besides the country's most extensive number of archeological sites and a growing number of comfortable accommodations, Cayo offers visitors the unique opportunity to encounter its physically diverse flora and fauna, with such natural wonders as cascading waterfalls and limestone caves in an intact and relatively undisturbed environment. In fact over 60% of Cayo District has been set aside as either a Wildlife Sanctuary, National Park, or Forest Reserve. To experience Cayo you can hike, canoe, travel by horseback, or tour in the comfort of an air-conditioned van. Whatever your preference, prepare yourself for the ultimate in an "up close and personal" experience you're not likely to forget.
Ambergris Caye

Ambergris Caye

Today Ambergris Caye is a world class destination for diving. Ambergris Caye also offers a variety of water sport activities from snorkeling to windsurfing, sailing, fishing, parasailing, jet-skiing even glass bottom boat tours. If you enjoy nature, there's a new national park at the north end of the island called Bacalar Chico. The entire area is a protected sanctuary for mangroves, birds and sea life. "Manatee Watches" are a popular option. You can also rent a bike and cross the pull ferry and travel north along the beach for several miles. Along the way you can stop and have lunch at Sweet Basils or drop in for a drink at Captain Morgans or Mata Chica, film locations for "Temptation Island".

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Valid Date Ranges

October 2023
10/01/2023 12/31/2025 Call for pricing

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