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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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Into the Abyss – Black Hole Drop, Caves Branch, Belize
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 11 August 2011
Welcome to Belize where even the highways are nature-centric. Take, for instance, the Hummingbird Highway, one of four main paved roads in the country. Not that Blue Hole… St. Herman’s Blue Hole National Park (not to be confused with the Great Blue Hole Marine Park, a UNESCO site way out at sea) is accessed right off the Hummingbird not far from the capital, Belmopan. This is actually a two-parter park which includes a cave and a cenote, each accessed via its own distinct entrance just a short distance from each other along the Hummingbird.
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Tiny Town – Belmopan, Belize
Blog: Trans-Americas Journey - 10 August 2011
With a population of around 20,000, Belmopan is one of the smallest national capital cities in the world. Its name is a mash up of “Belize” and Mopan (the name of the area’s main river) and it’s home to Guanacaste National Park, the nation’s first and smallest national park at just 250,000 square yards. A trail winding through the park’s patch of jungle can be walked in less than 20 minutes.
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Jungle Ride with Blade
Blog: Snarky Tofu - 7 January 2010
This clip comes from among the more awesome experiences I had in Belize, doing a trail ride through the jungle in the northern foothills of the Maya Mountain range in Central Belize. The trails ranged from narrow to cut 'em yourself, my guide was a machete-wielding font of jungle lore, and the horse was well-behaved without being too subservient. At a few points we were on open plains ready-made for high speed galloping, but mostly we rode through dense jungle. At a few points I was using my hands to push away from tree trunks.
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