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• Here, Kitty Kitty – Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary, Belize

  Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 19 August 2011

  The Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary includes 200 square miles of protected land. Established in 1984 and made a sanctuary in 1990, it is the world’s first jaguar sanctuary. It’s now home to roughly 70 of the big cats along with many of their smaller kin including ocelot, jaguarundi and margay. Of course, we arrived at the sanctuary hoping to see a jaguar and we did our best to increase our chances of a sighting. First, we decided to camp in the sanctuary.

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• Cave Man – River Cave Expedition, Caves Branch, Belize

  Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 17 August 2011

  It’s no exaggeration to say that Ian Anderson, of Ian Anderson’s Caves Branch Adventure Co. & Jungle Lodge, invented cave tubing in Belize. Not that it’s such a complicated thing to invent. Get an inner tube, stick you butt in it, float into a cave, float back out. But the fact is that no one in Belize offered it as a trip before Ian did, so we call him the Cave Man. We hope he doesn’t mind. By the time we got around to trying his signature adventure we’d already done his Black Hole Drop and his Waterfall Cave Expedition.

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• Leap(s) of Faith – Waterfall Cave Expedition, Caves Branch, Belize

  Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 15 August 2011

  The words “waterfall” and “cave” sound weird together. Is it a waterfall inside a cave? A cave formed by a waterfall? Heck, let’s just go find out. That’s how we ended up signing up for the Waterfall Cave Expedition (US$90 including transportation, gear, guides and lunch) at Ian Anderson’s Caves Branch Adventure Co. & Jungle Lodge. We’d already done the Black Hole Drop rappelling trip with them but this trip added darkness and water to the equation.

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