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Fisherman cleaning fish on jetty at Tobacco Caye.

Fisherman cleaning fish on jetty at Tobacco Caye.

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Southern Belize is the country's most absorbing cultural melting pot, with a strong Garifuna influence around Dangriga and Hopkins, and Belize's largest Maya population down in Toledo. Nature is rich here too, where open savanna and citrus-filled farmland give way to forested hills dotted with Maya villages, ruins and national parks primed for adventurous jungle trekking.

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