This tour combines nature hiking, caving adventure, and a magical trip into the Maya underworld, making it one of the most popular adventure tours in Western Belize. A two mile hike along the Roaring River and through the rainforest of the Tapir Mountain Preserve leads you the entrance of the cave where an experienced guide will take you on a journey into Xibalba (the Maya underworld). Exploring this geologically fascinating cave is a treat all its own but the main attraction is the main chamber, which was a Maya ceremonial and burial ground. This is a once in a lifetime experience not to be missed! (Please note that this is a full day of Physical activity and may not be an appropriate tour for all people.)

In this leisurely tour travel to our neighboring river valley and explore the spectacular Barton Creek Cave formations aboard your canoe as you slowly paddle through the cave passage. After the cave, head over to the nearby Green Hills Butterfly Ranch, where you will experience Belize's biggest and best butterfly exhibit. Enjoy a picnic lunch at the ranch and then discover the beautiful butterflies of Belize. The knowledgeable staff will present an excellent synopsis of the butterfly life cycle but the main attraction is the enclosed flight area where scores of gorgeous tropical butterflies flutter around you. This tour is fun for all ages and highly recommended for families with children.

For a shorter trip, visit the Barton Creek Cave without going to Green Hills Butterfly Ranch.

Don't like the idea of being in a dark cave? Visit Green Hills Butterfly Ranch without going to the Barton Creek Cave.

This tour is a must-see in this part of the world! Tikal is one of the most famous and impressive Maya sites in Mesoamerica with over 3,000 excavated structures and several of the tallest temples in the Maya World. Nestled high up on the hills in the heart of Guatemala's Maya Biosphere Reserve, the tours is a perfect combination of archeology and jungle wildlife. Your guide, a knowledgeable Tikal expert, will give you a glimpse into the past of one of the world's most impressive early civilizations and help you to spot the howler monkeys, spider monkeys, oscillated turkeys, coatis and other amazing wildlife that frequent this massive jungle park. The day trip includes all transportation, border crossing fees, park entrance fee to Tikal and guided tour of the site, and lunch. (Visitors from some European countries are required to obtain a special Visa to enter Guatemala - check with your local passport agency to see if your country is one of them before leaving home.)

Stay over-night in the Maya Biosphere Reserve at the Jungle Lodge in Tikal. An overnight tour gives you a bit more time to see the site without having to rush back to Pook's Hill in one day. The overnight tour includes all transportation, border crossing fees, park entrance fee to Tikal and guided tour of the site, overnight accommodation and meals, as well as a personal escort from one of our guides who will also stay overnight and take care of all the details.

This option allows you to save a little money on the overnight tour by going on your own without the company of one of our guides. This overnight tour still includes all transportation, border crossing fees, park entrance fee to Tikal and guided tour of the site, overnight accommodation and all meals. One of our guides will drive you to the Border and introduce you to our Guatemalan driver who will take you onto Tikal and to the Jungle Lodge, where your tour of the site will be prearranged. We will meet you at the border to bring you back to Pook's the next day.

Enjoy a morning of canoeing on the Macal River with a naturalist guide spotting wildlife such as Iguanas, kingfishers and cormorants along the way. Canoeing is followed by lunch at a local Belizean restaurant. In the afternoon, cross the Mopan River via a hand winched ferry at the Maya Village of San Jose Succotz for a visit to Xunantunich, Belize's most accessible Maya site of significance. The site's dominant structure, El Castillo, rises 130 feet above the jungle floor, making the views from the top superb, with forest stretching out all around and the rest of the ancient city mapped out beneath you. This tour is consistently popular with all of our guests and is great for families with children.

Visit the Xunantunich and Cahal Pech Maya sites. Overlooking the town of San Ignacio is Cahal Pech, the royal acropolis-palace of an elite Maya family during the classic periods. It offers a panoramic outlook of the town and the Belize River Valley below. Go out to lunch at a local restaurant in between site visits and sample some Belizean food.

Visit the Xunantunich Maya site and explore San Ignacio town. San Ignacio, along with its sister town across the Macal River, Santa Elena, is the bustling heart of Western Belize's business and tourism industries. The laid back but lively town is home to representatives of all of Belize's ethnic populations and exemplifies the diversity that has created Belize. Here you will see this blend and get a feel for the local culture and day to day life of Belizeans. Saturday is especially fun as this is market day.

Caracol is the largest Maya site in Belize and covers some 35 sq miles, with 36,000 structures marked so far. Restortion at this massive Maya City is ongoing. A day trip to the site takes you up through the rugged back-roads of the Mountain Pine Ridge and deep into the folds of the Maya Mountains. Time permitting, your guide will take you to some of the sites in the Mountain Pine Ridge on the journey home.

Anyone who can appreciate hiking and will enjoy floating through caves and majestic jungle on inner tubes will love this trip. A short hike through the jungle leads you to where you 'put-in' to the Cave's Branch River with your inner tubes. From there, enjoy a float through a series of caves with glimpses of the towering rainforest in between. This cave trip is a fun-filled tour for all age groups.

A thrilling opportunity to soar through the jungle treetops high above the forest floor.

What could be better than doing one exciting activity? Doing two! Do both the Cave Tubing and Zipline tours in one day!

Choose either the cave tubing or zipline tour and combine it with a visit to the Belize Zoo. Belize's charming little zoo has gained world renown as a home only for animals that are native to Belize which are viewed in their natural setting - forest enclosures. All of the animals living at the zoo were rescued as orphans, from poaching situations, the illegal pet trade, injury, or exposure due to habitat loss. Thousands of international tourists visit the zoo yearly but its mission of promoting conservation is clearly aimed towards benefiting Belize and its people. The zoo serves as the main venue for Belizeans to experience the country's wildlife and is a favorite field trip for school groups. Most of the animals that you will see at the zoo are also found in Pook's Hill Reserve, but unless you get really lucky, a zoo stop is your best bet at seeing a Jaguar or Tapir in Belize!

Combine a visit to the Belize zoo with a trip to the Capital City to enjoy lunch at a local restaurant and get a feel for Belizean culture. After lunch, visit the George Price Center for Peace and Development to learn about Belize's first Prime Minister and the country's early history. Interesting at any time of year, this tour is especially recommended for Tuesday's and Friday's as these are market days.

This highly adventurous tour has been described as 'a rush like no other!' The tour begins with a steep hike over jungles laden with limestone hills that lead up, up and up to the edge of a collapsed cave system that has high forest growing out of the center and opens into massive caverns on either end. Here your skilled team of guides will prepare you to 'ease' your way over the lip of cave and repel the 300 feet down into the collapsed cavern's floor. You control the pace of your descent which allows you the choice to savor the view as you pass through layers of the canopy on your way to the ground or zip down in one thrilling rush! This tour is not recommended for the faint of heart.

A visit to the Baboon Sanctuary is one of your best chances to seeing Howler Monkeys in this part of Belize. Try to spy our noisy cousins in trees along the shores of the Belize River and while enjoying the other wildlife that lives in the forest along the River's Edge. If you are really lucky, you might even see a Morelet's Crocodile sunning on the river bank!

Explore the Baboon Sanctuary by foot along some of the many trails that wind through the Sanctuary's forests, which are home to the Belize's Black Howler Monkeys (locally called baboons). Combine a visit to the Baboon Sanctuary with a stop at Belize's world famous zoo to see some of the other fascinating creatures that live in the Belizean jungles and forest.

Travel up into the Maya Mountains to experience Belize's pine forest ecosystem and some of the impressive water formations that appear where many of Western Belize's lowland rivers have their head-waters. Visit the Rio Frio Cave, swim at Rio On Pools, and visit 1000 ft falls. If there is time, you can stop at the Green Hills Butterfly Ranch on your journey back to Pook's Hill.

Along the scenic Hummingbird Highway is the Blue Hole National Park, where an underground tributary of the Sibun River bubbles to the surface and fills a deep limestone sinkhole about 33 meters deep. Jungle trails through the national park take you up to a viewpoint, overlooking the surrounding area. Explore Saint Herman's Cave and marvel at the lovely formations.