AT#862 - Travel to Belize and Guatemala

Travel with Amateur Traveler Podcast

Chris Christensen

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 26 August 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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https://amateurtraveler.com/travel-to-belize-and-guatemala/ Hear about travel to Belize and Guatemala on the G Adventures "Classic Belize and Tikal" week-long small group tour: Mayan pyramids, cave tubing, and snorkeling on the Barrier Reef. An adventurous trip to Belize and Guatemala. The tour started in Belize City, traveled to Flores in Guatemala, and then returned to San Ignacio Belize and the Island of Caye Caulker. One of the highlights was visiting Mayan ruins, including Yaxha and Tikal in Guatemala and Caracol in Belize. I climbed to the top of 4 pyramids in 3 sites while learning about the Mayan Classical age from 200 to 900 AD. We saw Mayan ballcourts, temples, and noble houses. These sites are all in the jungle with the sounds of howler monkeys in the background and spider monkeys and kudamundi wandering the grounds. We saw tucans, turkeys, and other birds. We stayed in the colorful island town of Flores Guatemala which is a center for tourism for Tikal. We did cave tubing in Belize "near" San Ignacio, Belize. We floated through caves on inner tubes. We could get out of the tubes in the cave and see artifacts left by the Mayans of the Classical Period. Some of the group went to the well-known ATM cave where there are still the remains of some who were sacrificed to the gods at the end of the Classical Period. Others visited the Raptor Center where they got to interact with birds of prey. The trip concluded on Caye Caulker, an island in the Caribbean Sea, where our group went snorkeling on the Belize Barrier Reef, encountering diverse marine life including dolphins, manatees, sea turtles, rays, and sharks. We toured the island with local high school students as part of Bikes with Purpose. We concluded our trip with a lazy sunset cruise. This was an adventurous tour. It is meant for people who are open to taking a crowded local bus, jumping into the water in a dark cave, and following a guide through the jungle canopy at a Mayan site. If you are such a person, the G Adventures "Classic Belize and Tikal" might be a great use of a week's vacation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's digging and then there's super digging. This food and then there's baker's super-foods.
0:08.0	And then there's baker's super foods. Made with selected natural ingredients and tasty chicken.
0:15.7	The food. And then there's Baker Super Foods.
0:19.7	Amateur Traveler episode 862. Today the amateur traveler talks about Mayan pyramids, cave-tubing
0:29.2	adventures, snorkeling with sharks, rays, and a manatee as we go to Belize and Guatemala.
0:36.0	This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler.
0:39.0	Let's talk about Belize and Guatemala. This is Chris from Amateur Traveler and there is no guest for today's show,
0:49.0	but it's going to be one of those solo shows talking about a recent travel I did. As mentioned in the intro it was a
0:55.3	trip to Belize and Guatemala specifically to Belize and to Tachal in Guatemala and a little more around that area but I'll get into more details about that later.
1:06.2	So basically what happened here is I was supposed to be doing a trip to Africa in the fall of 2003 this year and this was for the T-Bex conference and that got pushed
1:18.1	off into next year and so I ended up with two weeks of vacation that I needed something to do.
1:24.6	And I was looking for what I could do with one week vacation that would get me some new
1:28.6	countries, countries I've never been to before and had not been to either Belize or Guatemala and my wife did not have the time available so I was
1:36.4	looking at what I could do that she would be okay with me going and this is a
1:39.8	tropical area and she's not so good with hot and the sticky and so she was okay with me going on this
1:45.9	but I didn't want to go by myself but so I was interested in a small group tour and one of the
1:50.8	small group companies that I we've talked about the show before, but I had not used before, is G Adventures.
1:57.0	If you listen back in the show archives, you'll hear various shows that talk about G.
2:01.0	I can remember, we had a show for instance talking about
2:03.7	going to Haiti with G Adventures. They have a good reputation they worked with a
2:07.8	number of my travel blogger friends over the years but I had not personally
2:11.2	used them and I found this trip that I could do arriving on
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