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Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: North of Belize City, Maskall Village
This Maya ruin is one of the most accessible from Belize City, located 55 miles to the north. Almost 500 buildings comprise Altun Ha, which was a center for Maya trade from 250-900 AD. The Temple of the Sun God, the Temple of the Green Tomb and an early reservoir are some of the most impressive sights. Altun Ha is also notable because the Jade...
Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: Western Hwy, 30 miles west of Belize City, Belize City
Plan to spend at least two hours at "the best little zoo in the world," as the Belize Zoo is known, plus thirty minutes each way from Belize City. This is one of the nation's most popular tourist attractions, 30 miles outside of Belize City. The Belize Zoo was established in the mid-1980s as a "retirement home" for native wild animals that had...
Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: 21 miles northeast of Belize City
Only 40 minutes by boat from downtown Belize City, Caye Caulker is a mellow little island, with all the standard budget travel amenities on a tiny Caribbean island with a world class reef just offshore. The island is four miles from north to south but the developed and inhabited part is only a mile long, from the Split to the airstrip. Commercial...
Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: 25 miles west of Belize City, Burrell Boom
Black howler monkeys are called "baboons" in Belize, and they swing from the leafy tree canopy at this unique wildlife preserve. 220 local farmers in nine communities banded together to conserve their land to guarantee habitat for these creatures. The resulting preserve spreads over 20 square miles, and is home to more than 4000 monkeys. Canoe...
Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary
Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: Northern Hwy, Mile 33, 33 miles northwest of Belize City, Belize City
The Belize Audubon Society manages this unique preserve, located on an island in the middle of a freshwater lake. The 16,400 acres of waterways, logwood swamps and lagoon provide habitat for a diverse array of wildlife, including hundreds of resident and migratory birds – all year long. More than 200 species have been recorded. The most famous...
Hattieville Central Prison; Prison Gift Shop and Tourist Center
Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: Hattieville
The remarkable story of Hattieville Central Prison began in 2002, when management of the country's sole prison was transferred to the Kolbe Foundation. Their vision of a secure, humane facility based on meaningful rehabilitation and reintegration has had astonishing results. Witness the fine crafts produced by the inmates on sale at the gift shop;...
Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: Mile 40.5 on the Old Northern Hwy
A strange, colorful, lush, and beautiful resort in the middle of the jungle, offering all manner of luxurious day-spa services and trips into the local forests, by foot or horseback. The verdant landscaping is enhanced by intriguing focal points spread around the grounds: a tiny, glass-decorated chapel; a palapa-covered stone chess table; a pool...
Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: on the Western Hwy, just past the Belize Zoo
This unique environmental center offers courses in tropical ecology and conservation. The 1070-acre site is home to tapirs, pumas, jaguars, numerous bird species, crocodiles and, yes, a few monkeys. Extended-stay volunteer and internship opportunities are available. Though it is mainly designed for groups, individual naturalists are welcome to...
Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: Mile 5 Western Hwy, Belize City
There is so much to do, see, eat and drink at Old Belize, that it could be listed in many categories, including recreation, shopping, dining and museums. In addition to a beach, swimming lagoon, zip line, waterslide and other water sports, Old Belize offers the Cultural and Historical Center, a 45-minute tour through a thousand years of Belizean...
Category: Beyond the City Proper - Belize City Attractions & Activities
Address: 10 miles east of Belize City
This 187-acre mangrove island, located at the southern tip of the Drowned Cayes, is only 10 miles east of Belize City. There are many day-trip possibilities to Spanish Lookout Caye including the country's first and only "Dolphin Encounter" program, a beach, kayaks, snorkeling, etc. Diving is one of the favorite activities here. Manatees and...
