Experiences
Immersive cultural, cooking, tasting, and wildlife experiences
This family-owned center offers a hands-on cooking class, a bird trail and a butterfly farm. On the weekends, they offer a great lunch and recently, on most Friday evenings a special themed dinner.
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Culinary - Wildlife - Birding - Maya Culture - Great for Kids
In San Antonio village
The Tzib family lives in the heart of San Antonio village and offer a hands-on cooking class/culinary experience under a palapa outside their house. It’s really great and they are lovely people. The sons, Abdon and Frank are two in a new generation of Yucatec Maya helping to keep Maya culture “alive.” Frank also will teach Maya hieroglyphic writing if you like.
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Culinary - Maya Culture - Great for Kids
Outside San Antonio village
Located just before entering the village when driving from San Ignacio, this coffee farm is where the Mesh family grows, roasts and grinds coffee all without electricity. Go for a tour and tasting experience as well as turning the roasting drum and grinding on the molcajete yourself.
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Culinary - Maya Culture -Birding -Great for Kids
San Antonio Women's Cooperative
In San Antonio Village
A non-profit organization located in San Antonio Village. Their main goal is to support and empower women and youths through preserving culture and traditional arts and crafts, including pottery, cooking and embroidery. Read more in this article.
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Culinary - Crafts - Maya Culture - Great for Kids
Outside Cristo Rey
An immersive Maya cooking experience located near Cristo Rey village, close to San Ignacio.
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Culinary - Maya Culture - Great for Kids
In San Antonio village
Tour a working farm, roast peanuts, make achiote and enjoy a delicious breakfast at the Tzib family farm. Afterward, stop into The Farm Shop for produce and more.
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Culinary - Maya Culture - Great for Kids
In San Ignacio
Small tasting and chocolate making shop in the center of San Ignacio. They demo chocolate making using a traditional molcajete.
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Culinary - Maya Culture - Great for Kids
Chaa Creek Culinary Experiences
Outside San Ignacio
Chaa Creek has quite a few on-site tours including a farm tour, creatures of the night tour and their new Open Hearth Culinary Experience. Each day of the week a different culture and cuisine is featured -- Mestizo Mondays, East-Indian Tuesdays, Creole Wednesdays and, Garifuna Thursdays and Maya Fridays.
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Culinary - Belize Culture - Great for Kids
Chaa Creek Medicinal Plant Trail
Outside San Ignacio
Guided and self-guided tours above the bank of the Macal River past medicinal plants, introducing visitors to many of the plants and herbs used in traditional Maya medicine.
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Flora - Maya Culture
Outside San Antonio/7 Mile
Experience up to 30 native butterfly species in a large flight area. The property is also home to a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna and is home to about 300 species of birds.
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Wildlife - Birding - Great for Kids
In San Antonio village
This Maya-owned butterfly farm is in the heart of the village. Step into the environment and immerse yourself in butterflies.
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Wildlife - Maya Culture - Great for Kids
San Ignacio
The Belize Raptor Center is dedicated to educate and inspire conservation of raptors and their habitat. They rescue and rehabilitate injured and orphaned birds of prey. Visit the center for an interactive demo and tour, including a VIP tour option.
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Birding - Great for Kids
Green Iguana Conservation Project
San Ignacio
Located on the grounds of the San Ignacio Resort Hotel, this informational and educational exhibit gives visitors a closer look at this amazing reptile and learn how vital they are to the ecological balance of the river habitat. Learn about the incubation, hatching, rearing, and releasing process of this species.
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Wildlife - Great for Kids
San Ignacio
Culinary experiences, Marie Sharp's hot sauce tastings and Traveller's smooth rum samplings.
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Culinary
San Ignacio
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Tiberon Rum's tasting room is in a lovely white building near the Cayo Welcome Center. Taste their rums and a new tequila and find merch.
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Culinary
Unitedville
Located at Mile 60 on the main highway going from Belmopan to San Ignacio, Hot Mama's
makes habanero hot sauces and other habanero pepper products such as award winning gourmet sauces, habanero pepper jelly, pepper mash, condiments and spices. Stop in to see how it's all done and sample some sauces.
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Culinary
All over Cayo
Building a better Belize through birdwatching. Organized birding outings in the Cayo area.
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Birding
San Ignacio
In addition to the Green Iguana Project tour, the San Ignacio Resort Hotel offers a night trail tour, birdwatching, tea tasting medicinal tour, copal healing experience and a Maya fish cooking experience.
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Culinary - Flora - Wildlife - Maya Culture
The San Ignacio area has quite a few Maya Archaeological sites including Xunantunich accessed by a hand-cranked ferry, Cahal Pech right in San Ignacio town and Caracol in the Mountain Pine Ridge outside San Antonio village.
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Maya Culture - Wildlife - Flora - Great for Kids
Belize Natural History Archive
Santa Elena
Exhibits showing Belize's wonderful biodiversity. Birds, insects and bones tell the story. Educational programs and more.
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Wildlife - Great for Kids
Benque and more
Jorge de Leon is a Maya scholar and tour guide who guides frequent trips to Tikal, Caracol and Xunantunich archaeological sites. He is also a Maya glyph specialist and guests can take his fun and informative workshop
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Maya Culture - Great for Kids