Re: 2nd Trip...but bringin the kids this time, HELP!
[Re: TannedBanana]
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10/14/09 08:13 PM
10/14/09 08:13 PM
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Juan Grande
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My wife and I live here full-time with our 3 children (12, 9 and 4-1/2), and have for over 4 years now. I can tell you what our kids love doing and then take it with a grain of salt and add it to your own research.
1) Belize Zoo. The Belize zoo is truly world-class. Now it doesn't compare to the London Zoo or the San Diego Zoo on many levels, but you will not find a more natural habitat in which to find animals in their native surroundings. It's especially fun for the kids because of all the hand painted signs explaining the exhibits. Just beware that if you read the sign about the tapirs too slowly you will be urinated on from 30' before you get to the part of the sign that warns about it. Yes, I have seen it happen to unsuspecting tourists. It's a beautiful setting and the kids will love it.
2) Caye Caulker day sail with Seaduced. This one is great because you can snorkel with the kids, or if they aren't up for it, or are not "in the mood" then they can still have lots of fun staying aboard the catamaran while at Hol Chan and Shark Ray Alley. Even if the youngest doesn't snorkel, you can get in the water very easily off the back of the cat, and even from the seating on the deck they can see the jacks, nurse sharks and rays swimming all around the boat. My kids never get tired of sitting in the "hammock netting" at the front of the cat, and while on Caye Caulker for two hours, they can swim in the water just south of the cut. (Juts beware the current in the cut or channel on Caye Caulker with young ones.)
3) And a true insider's tip...rather than cave tubing with the masses, go cave canoeing at Barton Creek with Windy Hill Tours. Their are two to a canoe, so you will each have a child with you and the children will have the "car battery operated" searchlights" as you go deep into the Barton Creek cave system by canoe. Best of all, after you explore the cave by canoe, the kids can play on the rope swings for a good hour or so in what looks like a setting you couldn't have imagined looking any nicer. No tour buses or cruise ship passengers for this one. And on the drive to Barton Creek you can stop at an Amish farm (you pass through an Amish community - not the same as Mennonite) and buy fresh mangos for $.50 BZ (in season).
Hope you have a great trip, and if you follow at least some of this advice, you and your children are in for a trip they won't soon forget.
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