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Our Belize cave tours allow you to discover something that few people know - that Belize is home to the largest cave system. It’s hard to believe that such cavernous spaces could be carved out of rock with nothing more than water, but it’s true.  What started as just a few little drops slowly became a trickle, eventually turned into underground rivers, designing these artistic mysterious places as many as two million years ago.

Today much of the geological structure of Belize is what is known as “karst landforms,” created when CO2-infused water passing through the soil becomes mildly acidic and slowly, over time, begins to dissolve the earth’s natural limestone to create breaks in the rock. These breaks allow more water to begin flowing downward, resulting in ideal conditions for the formation of underground caves and rivers.  In fact, if you plot them on a map, the southern half of the country is completely dotted with them.

Visitors never cease to be amazed by the awe-inspiring stalactites and stalagmites inside the caves,  though the ancient Maya took a very different view of these magnificent structures.  The Maya believed the caves, or ac-tuns as they were known, were a portal to Xibalba, the underworld and used them for religious ceremonies.  The Maya offered sacrifices to the “gods of death” in these very caves. As a result, nearly every cave in Belize has some evidence of Maya occupation. Findings have ranged from gifts such as carved jade, storage vessels and decorative pottery to embedded footprints and even human skeletal remains.

A headlamp's ray on a glistening crystal formation, an intact Maya pot and the whispering echoes of ancient ceremonies add to the awe and excitement in the cave explorer's experience.   Contact us to arrange for your Belize cave tours today.