Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on August 30, 2016

Trips to our island in Belize are all-inclusive. Just what does that mean? In the travel industry, there is no agreement, so when you buy an all-inclusive package, you need to closely look at what is included and what is not. Our trips include everything once you meet us (it does not include air to Belize, and actually I don’t know of any Belize resorts that do offer this service.) In fact,

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on August 16, 2016

I have posted often about hunting lionfish and the Belize lionfish invasion. Lionfish were first spotted at Glover’s Reef in the winter of 2009. We heard about them in an article online, and notified our island staff. Within days, they spotted the first lionfish; it was uncanny. Since that time, we have actively pursued them with spearguns while snorkeling to keep their numbers down as much

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 26, 2016

On our Belize Adventure Week 8-night package we include one full day at Mayflower Bocawina National Park in southern Belize. There we spend hours on the 7-step, longest zipline in Central America created by Bocawina Adventure Resort. Mayflower Bocawina National Park is relatively new to the Belize national park system. Created in 2001, it is located 4.5 miles from the Southern Highway, with the tu

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 19, 2016

A recent New York Times article entitled Coral vs Coal details the struggle in Australia between the climate change deniers and the climate change chroniclers. And unfortunately it does appear to come down to choosing between the two. “The reef, one of the largest living things on earth, has started to fail. Whether it can recover is unclear. An organism roughly the size of Germany is bleach

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 12, 2016

We continuously follow Belize news here from our Utah office. By far the best news source for Belize is Channel 5 out of Belize City. A recent news story revealed a major Mayan ruin discovery at Xunantunich in western Belize. Xunantunich is the Belize Mayan ruin that we explore with our guests on our Belize Adventure Week package, so we have been there countless times. Reading Mayan ruin news remi

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 5, 2016

While reading the news online last week I came across an article near and dear to my heart: How (and Why) to Buy Travel Insurance in the New York Times. This is something we deal with all of the time. We highly recommend that our guests purchase a travel insurance policy for their Belize vacation, and as a result many of them do. However, if someone has a problem and they didn’t buy a policy

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on June 28, 2016

While in Belize this year, I took some time off from the island and went to Cayo for four days. This is the area in western Belize where there are many small lodges tucked back in the jungle, each located off one of many enticing gravel roads stretching out from San Ignacio. I had heard of Mystic River Resort, but never had been there, and actually I don’t think I had heard of anyone I know

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on June 21, 2016

Harvest Caye, Belize’s first island cruise ship port, was supposed to open in October of 2015, then pushed back to March of 2016, and is now planned to open next November. Located about 3 miles offshore from Placencia in southern Belize, Norwegian Cruise Lines has been developing this island into a cruise ship port of call for the last two years. Cruise ships will be able to pull right up to

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on June 14, 2016

Out on our Belize island we have a huge fleet of paddleboards. We have 6 downwind boards, and about 15 other SUPs out there, from boards for beginners to boards specifically for surfing. And that’s a big deal, as each board is driven down from Utah, and then taken by boat 70 miles to get to the island. We always get the latest gear; we were the first to introduce sea kayaking to Belize back