Belize General Info

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on August 3, 2011

I was very excited to visit Punta Gorda, Belize (known locally as “PG”) on the Tourism Board travel agent tour last week. PG is all the way south in Belize in the Toledo district, almost to Guatemala. It is still like it used to be, a remote jungle area by the sea, where many of the locals have little contact with the rest of Belize. In fact, in no other part of Belize can you visit both jungl

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on August 2, 2011

I got back a few days ago from my whirlwind tour of Belize lodges. I found out near the end that I had toured 33 inns in less than a week. After a while, fancy hotels all start to look the same, and if it wasn’t for my pictures I wouldn’t be able to keep them straight in my mind. We saw a LOT of hotel rooms in 5 days. But one stands out for its charm and grace: Victoria House on Ambergris Caye

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 29, 2011

When we were at Ian Anderson’s Caves Branch Jungle Lodge he gave each of us a soap sampler which consisted of a soap dish made out of jungle hardwoods from downed trees from Hurricane Richard and 3 bars of assorted soap. I just realized the soap dish has more info on the Chess Foundation I mentioned in my last post, so I wanted to include that here. The soap company is called the Mystic Mayan Na

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When we first began to kayak in Belize we naturally looked around for interesting rivers in addition to sea kayaking from island to island. My partner Cully had gotten his start in the adventure travel business by teaching whitewater kayaking on the Colorado River right near Moab where we still live. Right away we started hearing about this amazing jungle river you had to run by flashlight. The Ca

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 27, 2011

I have been in the adventure tour business since 1986. My partner Cully and I both come from a river trip-backpacking-camping background so that influenced what we offered. When I first joined him in this business, we were running self-support kayaking trips on the Jatate River in Chiapas. We packaged dried and freeze-dried meals in our shed in Moab and Cully drove them down to Mexico, along with

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 26, 2011

Two days ago we visited Five Sisters Lodge, a remote eco-resort on Mountain Pine Ridge. It takes an hour to get there on a bumpy road, but it’s worth it. This small facility is Belizean owned and operated, the only place on Mountain Pine Ridge that can make this claim. The summary: it’s fabulous. You wouldn’t call it 5-star, like many of the others we are visiting, but no one would be uncomf

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Mick and Lucy Fleming bought the farm that became Chaa Creek the same year that my partner Cully started Slickrock Adventures: 1977. Their original 140 acre farm eventually grew to 365 acres and into Belize’s first and foremost environmentally active eco-resort. It’s hard to figure out how to describe this amazing place and what to include: their absolutely stunning Belize lodging options with

Posted by Slickrock Adventures on July 23, 2011

We just finished an exquisite dinner at Ka’ana Boutique Resort, a truly lovely hotel just outside of San Ignacio, Belize. I’m not even sure what a ‘boutique’ resort is, and I think I’m supposed to know, because no one else asked, and they were nodding their heads like they understood… but maybe it means the best of everything, because that is obviously what they are shooting for here.

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Yesterday I flew to Belize for my Belize Tourism Board tour of hotels in Belize. I arrived one day early to visit Crystal Paradise Resort, our new Cayo eco-lodge. We will be staying there for two of our Belize packages next season… our Belize Adventure Week trip and our Mayan Odyssey tour. Crystal Paradise was built by the Tut family. They own 21 acres outside of a small village called Cristo Re