LAMANAI MAYA SITE - GUIDED TOUR OF ANCIENT MAYA TREASURES – A COMBINED ARCHEOLOGICAL RAINFOREST AND NEW  RIVER WILDLIFE ADVENTURE

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Full Day Trip is U.S. $125.00 per person based upon Minimum group size: 4 pax.

Please add Booking Fee of $20.00 per person plus 4% Bank Service Charge.

Includes Water taxi tickets for commute to and from Belize City, Air-conditioned coach to Tower Hill Bridge, Orange Walk District, lunch at Lamanai, Park Entrance fees, River boat, Licensed Captain and & Tour Guide.

ITINERARY:

6:30 am: This interesting journey into the Maya past commences by taking the 6:30 am water taxi boat from Caye Caulker to Belize City – a fast, 45 minute, scenic boat-ride in protected lagoon-like waters.

7:30 am: At the Marine Water Taxi Terminal, you board an air-conditioned coach for a one-hour ride to the Tower Hill Bridge in Orange Walk District.

9:00 am: At Tower Hill Bridge, you Board your riverboat for a one hour ride into the heart of the rainforest until arrival at the bank of the New River Lagoon a short distance from the Lamanai site. This important Maya site is set along the banks of the great New river Lagoon, an area that is home to howler and spider monkeys, iguana, crocodile and dozens of exotic bird species. This convenient riverboat access via the New River is therefore regarded a great tour in itself, and one of the major attractions of this wildlife/river/lagoon/Maya site/rainforest adventure.

10:00 am: Marvel at the architecture of this great ancient civilization as you disembark from the riverboat and walk along jungle paths under the canopy of the rainforest.

When the Spaniards first arrived in this area, they found the Maya community still occupying ancient Lamanai that is translated “submerged crocodile”, and found out that this site dated back to pre-classic times – therefore being one of the oldest occupied kingdoms of the Maya

The stone face of a Mayan deity looks mutely to the west on one temple, casting stone eyes on the setting sun. The tour circuit now takes guests through the rainforest right into the Lamanai Maya Site. Here you will see other plazas with temples reaching to the heavens – again, a reminder of the cosmological religion of this ancient civilization, that saw the creation of both the short (260 days) and the long count (365 days) calendars a couple thousand years ago by sacred shaman priest/scientists living and working in the rainforests of Meso America . Some handicraft shopping is available at the site, including t-shirts.

1:30 Noon: Lunch will be served at the site itself, under typical, authentic Maya thatch cabanas by the lagoon’s edge.

3:00 pm: After lunch, served under the thatch huts by the lagoon, board your riverboats for the water journey back to your tour bus, and then proceeding to Belize City.

5:30 pm Board the last daily scheduled water taxi to Caye Caulker at 5:30 pm.

6:15 Disembark your water taxi boat on Caye Caulker.

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