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Lighthouse Reef

 Lighthouse Reef is an atoll in the Caribbean Sea, the easternmost part of the Belize Barrier Reef and one of its three atolls, the other two being Turneffe Atoll and Glover's Reef. Lighthouse Reef is located about 80 kilometres (50 mi) southeast of Belize City. The atoll is of oblong shape, approximately 35 kilometres (22 mi) long from north to south, and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) wide. It forms a shallow sandy lagoon with an area of 120 square kilometres (46 sq mi) and a depth between 2 and 6 metres (6 ft 7 in and 19 ft 8 in) deep. The reef is one of the best developed and healthiest reefs in the Caribbean, "with an emergent fringing reef, a sloping fore reef with a coral rimmed shelf edge, vertical coral walls, and numerous patch reefs in the shallow central lagoon."

Lighthouse Reef

Belize Cave Tubing, ATV, and Altun Ha Mayan Ruins id designed to last approximately 6 hours. This includes a 50 minutes drive to the atv site. As we drive to the atv site, we will be narrating the history of Belize and its people. When we arrive at the atv site, we will have a short restroom break. After the restroom break you will be geared up for the atv tour. You will also be briefed on how to manage the 4 wheelers. You will then start the atv tour. You will be drive through Belize's rainforest for approximately an hour. After the atv tour, you will be issued with life vests, headlamps, and inner tubes for the cave tubing tour. We will then start a 20 minutes hike on trails in the rainforest to the entrance of the caves. As we hike we will be doing presentations on Medicinal Plants, and the use of the caves by the Mayan People. The caves part of the tour last approximately 1.5 hours. After the cave tubing tour, you will be served with a local dish of rice and beans with chicken and a soda.

Lighthouse Reef

After lunch we will drive an hour to the Mayan ruins of Altun Ha. When we arrive at altun ha Mayan ruins, we will have a short restroom break. After the break we will start the tour of the Mayan ruins of altun ha. Whilst doing the tour of altun ha Mayan ruins, we will be doing presentations on Indian History, altun ha history, and fauna and flora. The tour of the Mayan ruins of altun ha last approximately an hour. After the tour of altun ha Mayan ruins you will be dropped off at your hotel or at the water taxi or airport if you will be going to one of the Island after the tour.

USD$190.00 per/ person

Lighthouse Reef


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