Cave Tubing

That is a very strange phrase, I know. But it was one of the highlights of our trip to Belize. We went with cave-tubing.com. Yhonny picked us up from our hotel in a bus, and took us east into the rainforest of Belize. The whole way there, he had us laughing so hard we were crying. I seriously haven't laughed that hard and that long in my whole life.

We first went on an ATV Jungle tour. Cave-tubing.com is set up with Honda 4-wheelers, and you go for a pleasure ride through the rainforest. As we were all lined up ready to go I looked at Mark and said, "You know I'm going to want one of these 4-wheelers when we are done." He smiled back and said, "You mean 9 of them!" Off we went. It was so much fun. The ground was muddy, and so were we all when we were finished.

Then it was off to the Caves Branch River. We walked with our innertubes over our shoulders, and headlamps in hand to get to the put-in. On the way we found this beautiful rock that I'm sure God created just for the purpose of jumping into the river. It seemed really high when you were up there. Really, it couldn't have been more than 15 feet, but it seemed like a lot more on the way down. We all took turns jumping into the clear, blue, warm water.

After about a 30 minute walk, we came to a spot that is truly one of the 5 most beautiful places on this earth. The blue water was coming out of one cave and heading into another, and along this steep, rocky canyon wall we climbed into our tubes and headed down the river and through 2 very long caves.

Really you would think that someone had actually created the scenes that we experienced for a movie or something. They were unworldly beautiful. At one point there was a big cavern where a little waterfall came in, and a little open area to let in some natural light. We all just stared with our mouths open wide. It was indescribable.

When we were finished, it was back to the bus, and a stop at Amigos restaurant along the way back to Belize City. Such great Belizian food--only $5 a person, too.

We had to hurry back to Belize City to catch the water taxi which took us to our final destination--La Isla Bonita.