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Big Falls 4 Night Ancient Maya Adventure |
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About the Resort |
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The Lodge at Big Falls
, close to Punta Gorda, in Toledo,
southern Belize, is the district's
premier inland resort. Vacation packages
offer guests easy access to our natural
wonders, archaeological treasures and a
host of adventures. Our packages include
eco-tours, which will introduce you to
the local Mayan people and culture,
Mayan archaeology and the natural
history of the area. Our birding
packages offer you a variety of habitats
and an amazing range of resident and
visiting species.
If your are looking for a southern
Belize adventure vacation then we have
jungle trekking, caving, river kayaking
and snorkeling, fishing and manatee
watching on the offshore cayes.
The lodge offers elegant accommodations,
fine food and drink, and relaxation in a
peaceful riverside setting. An
unforgettable holiday experience.
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Trip Length
4 Nights
Highlights
- Includes all in country
ground & air transportation
- 4 nights accommodations
in river view cabana
- Full day tour to Labaantum
- Full day tour to Nim Li
Punit and Medicinal
Plantation
- Full day cultural visit to
Blue Creek Village
- All meals included
- All taxes included
Dates
Available year round
Price Per Person
Ask for current pricing
Accommodation Details
The Lodge at Big Falls
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Our spacious cabanas have been designed to achieve a living
space, which subtly merges the internal and external environments.
The rooms are all individual cottage style cabanas (sleeping up to
four persons) which a full en-suite bathroom providing hot and
cold water. Each cabana is thatched with bay-leaf palms, a
traditional Belizean thatching material. Beautifully tiled floors,
ceiling fans and fully screened wood louvered windows offer a cool
well-ventilated living area. Colorful local and regional soft
furnishing complete the decor, many of which will be available to
purchase in our gift shop. Landscape plantings around the cabanas
have been selected to attract birds and butterflies close to
the guests living space and this wealth of flora and fauna
can be enjoyed from your own thatched verandah. The warm waters of
the sparkling fresh water pool give the lodge a distinct taste of
luxury in the midst of the dense jungle paradise that belongs to
Toledo. The lodge delivers your choice of juice, coffee or other
drinks to your verandah each morning where you can sit and enjoy
the cool air or survey the early bird activity.
We are proud to offer the Lodge at Big Falls to our guests
who are looking for that special jungle hideaway in Belize.
Package Summary
This package includes:
Suggested Itinerary
Note: This Day to Day
itinerary is only a suggestion. Daily changes can be made
depending on the time of year you visit. Additional activities can
be added upon request.
Day
1: Arrive in Belize
You are personally greeted at the International
Airport by a representative of Adventures in Belize. Your
representative will direct you over to the local airline desk
where you will board your flight to Punta Gorda town. Met and
transferred by lodge personnel with arrival at the lodge in time
for cocktails and orientation before you dine in the softly lit
ambience of the lodge's restaurant.
Day 2: Tours to
Lubaantun and Rio Blanco National Park
Full breakfast at the lodge. A guided tour to Lubaantun
Mayan site where the famous Crystal Skull was discovered in 1926.
Guided visit to Rio Blanco National Park for lunch and a swim
beneath the waterfall and to explore the natural history of the
riverside. You also have the opportunity to visit a home-based
craftsperson who will demonstrate his skills in caving slate to
produce Mayan calendar glyphs, making Mayan harps or weaving
baskets and cuxtals, a local knapsack used by farmers to carry
food and drink to their plantations. Dinner at the lodge
Day 3: Birding and Nim Li Punit Maya
Ruins
Today starts with an early morning guided bird walk along
the river bank and through the orchard and meadows around the
lodge, then your ready for a full breakfast. Visit to a plantation
where Belizean bush doctors (shamans) tend a nursery for medicinal
plants and have a ceremonial center for spiritual healing. You
will then visit the Mayan site of Nim Li Punit, famed for the
magnificent carved stelae discovered there and on display in the
visitor center at the site. Return to the lodger for dinner that
night.
Day 4: Cultural Visit to Blue Creek Village
Full breakfast at the lodge. Today you will take a
cultural visit to Blue Creek Village where you will sped the day
with very experienced local guides with a depth knowledge of
rainforest medicinal plants and of the cave systems in the hills
and mountainsides around Blue Creek. Blue Creek offers a variety
of activities to suit the seasons including swimming into the cave
where Blue Creek emerges from the mountainside, hiking through a
dry cave higher up in the mountainside, exploring a medicinal
plant trail or visiting your Mayan guide's home and leaning how to
grind corn and make tortillas. If you feel energetic, there is
also the option of climbing the steep side of the valley to the
peak where you can gain magnificent views of the forest between
Blue Creek and the coast twenty miles away.
Day 5: Departure
Full breakfast and an opportunity to have a last
walk around the lodge or dip in the pool. If your flight departure
from Punta Gorda allows, we will drop your luggage off at the air
terminal and then leave you on Front Street to Explore Punta Gorda
and its market (Saturday, Monday, Wednesday & Friday) before
boarding your onward flight to you next destination in Belize.
Note:
This Day to Day
itinerary is only a suggestion. Daily changes can be made
depending on the time of year you visit. Additional activities can
be added upon request.
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