Adventure Tours

Belize sits on the fringe of modern life at the edges of a vast wilderness of ancient rituals and traditions, forests and villages where people today live comfortably with ghosts from a distant past … a Mayan past, since Belize is one of the few South and Central American cultures to have never been colonized by the Spaniards. Our most insane experience came in the caves of Actun Tunichil Muknal located near San Ignacio Cayo where you go underwater and come up on the inside of a cave mouth to navigate through a series of passages to reach the crystallized skeleton of a Mayan woman dating back from a thousand years ago. The spirit of ancient Mayans predominate in much of this country –only a tiny fraction of those vast cities have been recovered, the rest are covered in jungle, sometimes surfacing in people’s backyards.

The place where you draw closest to those ancient people — and the mystery of why they vanished — is not in those giant pyramids rising out of the jungle, it’s underground, in the places Mayans believed were entryways to the Land of the Dead. But the experience we had with Dr Jaime Awe was just the appetizer.