Mayan Ruins in Belize

 Mayan Ruins in Belize

San Ignacio Town in the Cayo District of Belize is your number one destination to explore the Mayan Ruins of Belize. Three of Belize’s must visited Mayan Ruins can be found in this District; namely Cahal Pech, Xunantunich and Caracol Mayan Ruins, Other Mayan Ruins found in the Cayo District includes El Pilar and Cahal Pech. Mayan Ruins found in other District included; Altun Ha, Cerros, Lamanai and Luban Tun.

The Cahal Pech Mayan Ruins are located only 5 minutes’ walk away from Cahal Pech Village Resort; Xunantunich is 10 minutes away by road. San Ignacio Town is located 15 minutes away from the Belize Guatemalan border, making a visit to the Mayan City of Tikal very convenient to visit.

Xunantunich Mayan Ruins - Cayo

Xunantunich Mayan Ruins

Xunantunich Mayan Ruins was known to be a major ceremonial center during the Classic Period during the Classic Period, and is the most prominent temple,"El Castillo" (The Castle), stands a majestic 130 feet high.

Caracol Mayan Ruins

Cahal Pech is just 5-minute walk from The Cahal Pech Resort and overlooks the town. This was the royal acropolis-palace of an elite Mayan ruling family who lived here during the Classic period. Cahal Pech was settled around 1000 BC and abandoned by 800 AD.

Altun Ha Mayan Ruins

Once hidden in thick jungle the Mayan Mayan of Belize have since been restored to their original splendor, one cannot help but feel the ever-present Maya Spirit when visiting these spectacular sites.
Altun Ha is one of the most famous Maya Centers, founded around 600bc, perhaps a few centuries earlier, this Maya Center was undoubtedly one of the smallest but extremely important Trading Post for the Maya Civilization at the time.

Lamanai Mayan Ruins

the Jaguar Temple, named for its boxy jaguar decoration; the Mask Temple, adorned by a 13-foot stone mask of an ancient Maya king; and the High Temple, offering visitors a panoramic view from its summit. Climb the 125ft Mayan temple above the jungle canopy for a spectacular view of the surrounding jungle and lagoon.

Cerros Mayan Ruins

From the time of its inception in the Late Preclassic Era, around 400BC, the site of Cerros was a small village of farmers, fishermen and traders.They made use of its fertile soils and easy access to the sea, while producing and trading product amongst the other Maya in the area.

Lubaantun Mayan Ruins

Lubaantun's structures are mostly built of large stone blocks laid with no mortar, primarily black slate rather than the limestone typical of the region. Several structures have distinctive "in-and-out masonry"; each tier is built with a batter, every second course projecting slightly beyond the course below it.

Cahal Pech Village Resort - San Ignacio Belize

Cahal Pech Village Resort also offers Birding and Horseback Riding at the Belize Mayan Ruins. Actun Tunichil Muknal – (ATM Cave) is a must do town when visiting Belize, the cave boast a well preserve skeleton which is sacrificial remains of a Mayan woman, pottery and other Mayan artifacts are also found at the ATM Cave.

Is Belize Safe?

Is Belize Safe?

The answer to that question is YES.
The general country of Belize is safe to travel and safe for a vacation as there are many vacation destination.  But there are some areas in some of Belize's rural areas the is not safe.

Belize City Safety
Belize city is the main city on the Country and can be divided in to part, North-side and south-side by a river. It is the place to go if you want the best of both world, meaning "Reef and Rainforest" as tours can easily be book for either destination. The South-side is high in poverty and is high in crime, the safe area is Regent and Albert street where you will find the government building and major shopping center. The side of the site is more tourism oriented and is safe as you would find most accommodation.

Advise to Locals and Tourist: Don't walk the city alone

Is San Ignacio Town Safe?
San Ignacio Town, Cayo District
The Cayo District is the second most populated district apart from Belize. San Ignacio town is the Tourist Capital of the district and is where will find many tours to the Mayan Ruins, River, Cave of Belize.
San Ignacio town is safe for tourist, the main area is known as burns avenue and it is litter with place for tourist as tons of places of tourist info. Many hotel and tour operator can be found on Burn Avenue. Many hotel such a Cahal Pech Village Resort is local 10 min away from Burns Avenue and is safe to walk during the day time.

side note: Cahal Pech Village Resort sits on a hill, offering a wonderful hill top view of the San Ignacio Town and its Twin Town Santa Elena and miles of Belize Country side. www.cahalpech.com

Is Placencia, Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker Safe?
Placencia, Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker are safe. But unlike the islands, Placencia has the largest stretch of beach in Belize and many small coral atolls call Cayes, which a great for a day trip on a island. Placencia is low on crime and so is Belize two largest island Ambergris Caye and Caye Caulker.

Advise to Tourist: Some locals, mealy men would try to make friend with tourist for the wrong reason, avoid them. If in need of local company, simply as anyone who a tour guide, just ask to see the license.

Trip Advisor - Belize

Easter Vacation Packages

Belize Easter Vacation Packages

Book any of two exciting Easter vacation packages and explore the Mayan world of Belize, starting at $475US.

Mayan Ruins of Xunantunich

Our Easter vacation package will take you to Mayan Ruins, Dinning with the Mayan People as you enjoy a traditional dinner with them at their home. Explore two of Belize greatest attraction; Actun Tunichil  Cave and the Mayan Ruins of Caracol, take a break and relax as you go horseback riding in a beautiful tropical Country site.

Cahal Pech Resort - Pool

These Easter Vacation Packages includes: Meals, accommodations, Transportation and guides and other fees.

Belize Easter Vacation Packages

Cahal Pech Village Resort
Student or Group Vacations Packages

For the past 18 years, Cahal Pech Village Resort has been offering great service to visitors to Belize and now we are offering amazing Student or Group vacations packages.

We offer a wide selection of buffet meals at special vale. Also detailed itineraries on your adventure tours at your convenience. No worries just relax and enjoy. Great student group vacation packages are offered for the month of August, September and October. For weddings, Family Reunions, student vacations or just to get away with friends, choose Cahal Pech Village Resort, San Ignacio - Belize.

Cahal Pech Village Resort - San Ignacio Belize

Cabanas At Cahal Pech Village Resort - San Ignacio Belize

Cabanas At Cahal Pech Village Resort - A Belize Vacations awaits

Pool Side - San Ignacio Belize

Private Verandah at thatch roof cabana at Cahal Pech Resort

Cahal Pech Village Resort Pool - San Ignacio Belize

Rooms over looking the Pool at Cahal Pech Village Resort

one of the Many wonderful rooms at San Ignacio Belize Resort - Cahal Pech

Cabanas at Cahal Pech Village Resort - in San Ignacio Belize

Sunrise Cahal Pech Village Resort

Belize Vacations - San Ignacio Belize - Belize Resorts

Belize Vacations

The Cahal Pech Village Resort offers free horseback ridding or free transportation to Xunantunich Mayan Temple when you book any of the Belize Vacations Package. 

This Belize Resort is located in the heart of the Mayan world, San Ignacio, Belize, Just 15 minutes away from the Belize Guatemala border... the make for a full day tour of the Tikal Mayan Temple. Other attraction in the area are the famous ATM Cave, cave tubing "a popular attraction". San Ignacio Belize - Is the most unique town in the entire country of Belize. Many Culture merge in one area that is jam pack with tours and activities for any one looking for the Belize vacations.

The Cahal Pech Village Resort is your best choice when it comes to a Belize Vacation. The Resort offers packages to many of Belize wonderful destinations., may it be inland or along the pristine coast of Belize. Stay in one of Cahal Pech Village Resort Thatched Roof Cabanas with private verandah and relax in one of our 3 pools, enjoy fabulous meal at the Restaurant. Wake up to the sounds of tropical bird passing  by your private cabanas. This Belize Resort is famous for the awesome, all inspiring view it offers to its visitor, and bare witness to some of the must romantic sunrise and sunset the Belize has to offer.

Booked the special Belize Vacations and get horseback ridding or free transportation to Xunantunich when you book with Cahal Pech Village Resort in the month of August, September and October.

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August September October Vacations Deal

August September October Vacations Deals

Cahal Pech Village Resort has just update in vacation packages deals - with all all new price to suite your budget. Book Any of these packages for a stay in the month of either August, September or October and we give either the horseback riding or transportation to Xunantunich Mayan ruins for Free.

Trip to the World famous Tikal Mayan Temple in Guatemala, to the Biggest Mayan sites Caracol, in Belize. Cave Tubing, Cave Canoeing to a tour of Flores island in Guatemala are a part of these awesome packages deals.  

Packages deals start as low as $425US Per Person and includes all taxes and all fees.

Belize Resort Vacation - Belize Hotel Vacation - Belize Tours

For your vacation travel to Belize, at the Cahal Pech Village Resort or El Cayo Hotel.

Cahal Pech Village Resort - Offer all that one would expect to find a resort: friendly staff, transfer service, free wifi, a restaurant and bar and two pools. The Resort offer rooms as well as cabanas, fitted with a/c unites. The cabanas are traditional style Mayan thatched roof cabanas, with a private and spacious verandah. The Rooms are situated on the second and third floor on the main building. Cahal Pech Resort sit on top of a hill above the twin town of San Ignacio and Santa Elena in the part of the Belize river valley. You get a bird eye view of this seen from you room are cabana at Cahal Pech Resort.

El Cayo Hotel - has just as much to offer as the Cahal Pech Village Resort, with the exception of no private cabanas and no pool. El Cayo Hotel is located on mile on the bullet tree road, San Ignacio Belize. Perfect for everyone looking for a vacation in nature. Open field where the owner horse can been seen running around, iguanas, squirrel, keel bill toucan and other wildlife can be seen. Piece and tranquility can certainly be found at El Cayo Hotel, imagine waking up to the sound of tropical birds, singing at at your window. El Cayo Offer this amazing experience in their Belize Vacation Package.

Best Vacations in Belize

Where in the World can you find that remarkable vacation? Which makes you feel like you in 2 places at once for the same great price? BELIZE.

Belize has the second largest barrier reef, and many coral atolls called "cayes", with white sandy beaches, the perfect for your private island getaway. For the person who wants to be below the Snorkeling and Scuba Diving trips offer to see the magnificent water world below. Your Vacation in Belize gets even more wonderful when you meet the local of inhabits the largest of these island, as the a humble and friendly, and will love to share a part of the lives with you.

Moving from the Reef and Caye, a vacation along the coastline is unmatched, as tremendous vacation destinations lies along the Belize's coast. Travel to Belize realizes the beauty of Belize pristine beaches and the attraction to locals and foreigners alike. Catch a glimpse of the ware Manatee of reel in the grand-slam. Vacationing on Belize coast give you access to land and sea tour, a perfect destination for families on vacation. Both Rainforest and Reef is at your figure tips. Where the waves meet the shore is where Culture meets Culture, the Garifuna and the Mayas still practice some dances, which is a colorful display of their culture.

Your exciting vacation of inland Belize, begins a Cahal Pech Village Resort simple because the Belize resort can arrange your Exclusive Belize Vacation Packages. Back to inland Belize, discovered the ATM Cave. A Cave so full of the mysteries of the Mayas, National Geography once did a documentary on this famous cave. Many Mayan Ruins like, Xunantunich, Caracol and Lamani can be seen tower of the rainforest canopy of Belize. Activities such as horseback riding, zip lining and cave tubing are wonderful way to explore Belize's tropical country side.

Iguana Hatchery Belize

Iguana - People of Belize

For over 5000 years to present day, the Iguanas has been hunted for their meat. Today in some parts of Belize the meat of the Iguana is nick named "Bamboo Chicken". The Iguanas are hunted for their meat and eggs; this makes the females more of a target for hunters or a predator. The Iguana reaction to danger is what make them an easy meal, when frighten the Iguana simple leap to the river or what over body of water maybe below it and wait for the hunter or predator to leave the water.

The Iguana today is regarded as an endangered species, this is due to the hunting of mainly females, now the Iguanas can only be hunted at a certain time, this give to females a chance to reproduce. In some places, hatcheries have been established.


Iguana - Hatchery

Young Iguana

Once such Iguana Hatchery is located about a mile or so away from Cahal PechVillage Resort. At the hatchery the Iguanas are nurtured from the birth and the release into the wild at the right age. The hatchery is enclosed with a net, many small trees and a small pond; incubators can be seen in the enclosure, which contains over a 100 iguanas.

Money River, Sittee River, San Ignacio Town to near to Macal River are justa few places where the spiece still thrive in Belize.

Where To Go

A question we all ask when we are not sure of a place to maybe for Vacation or just to get-a-way!

"Where to Go?"

Read on and discover "Mother Nature Best Keep Secret".

Where to go? Central America
Where to go in Central America? Belize



Where to go in Belize for the best of what the country offers? San Ignacio, Cayo

Here is why you should go to San Ignacio, Cayo Belize.
Town of San Ignacio is where you can find many tour operator offering to like no other on the planet.One such tour is the ATM Cave tours, where you can still see the skeletal remains of a Mayan princess who was sacrifice to their Gods. The ATM Cave is an Indiana Jones type experience, where some swimming and climbing and hiking is required. this tours is recommended from age 10 up. Cave tubing is an activity that combines cave and river. Float the rivers of Belize on a inner tube into the cave, as you make your way into down the river and into the cave, enjoy the sites and sounds of the Belize Rainforest and witness the stalactites and stalagmites as well as some of the wildlife found  in the cave.

Belize is part of the Costa Mayan area, and offer many different Mayan sites to choose from. Site like Lamanai, Caracol, Altun Ha, Cahal Pech, Xunantunich and far inland to Tikal.
Getting married at one of these ruins can easily be arrange by Cahal Pech Village Resort, a resort that has done many weddings arrangement in setting such as the Mayan ruins. The Resort itself is a great place for a romantic wedding or honeymoon. Horseback Riding, Zip lining, River Canoeing, Butterfly form, Iguana hatchery are amount the top attractions.

Where to go? Go to Belize, stay at the Cahal Pech Village Resort, and take one of the many tours offered.

Photos provided by Cahal Pech Village Resort.

Vacation Travel or Tip to Belize

Located in Central America, and the Heart of the Mayan world, travelers will find the country of Belize. Unlike many of the other countries in the region Belize is the only country which for language is English, this makes traveling to Belize very easy. Going on your vacation, you can take a flight direct to Belize via Taca, Continental or American Airlines, or you may prefer to take a flight to Cancun and then transfer to Belize.  Many Resort such Cahal Pech Village Resort offer transfer to and from destination such as Cancun. Once in Belize one can rent a private vehicle, travel on the bus or take a flight on the local air lines to many of the many destinations.

Sacrificial
remains inside the ATM Cave

Iguana Hatchery
near
Cahal Pech Resort

Belize offer many tours and activities for you on your vacation. Located in the western part of the country is the Cayo District, there you will find the Famous ATM Cave, Barton Creek Cave and the Rio Frio Cave; many Mayan Temples such as Xunantunich, Caracol, Cahal Pech, local tour operators can arrange a trip to Tikal since the Guatemalan Board is just 20 minutes away. Activities such as Horseback Riding, River Canoeing, Cave Tubing and Zip Lining are a great way to experience Belize when on your Vacation. Apart from inland activities Belize have the world largest living barrier reef and many atolls and beach. Travel from the Mayan Ruins to the Reef by booking one of the travel package the many of the tour operator our resort have to offer. Apart from all this Belize is a great place for a romantic honeymoon or wedding.

Xunantunich Temple

Many Resorts in Belize will work hard to provide you with best that Belize has to offer on your vacation, would arrange all the travels, accommodation and tours in a very economic package.  One resort offering all this is the Cahal Pech Village Resort, they do their very best to make you Belize vacation, a vacation of a lifetime. Again travel to Belize for your next family vacation, wedding, and honeymoon.