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This Belize Journey Takes You Deep Into the Maya World, Where River Travel, Ancient Temples, and Howler Monkeys Converge

The Mask Temple at Lamanai, with its soundtrack of howler monkeys. There are Caribbean vacations — and then there are journeys and explorations that take you to a different time and place. In Belize, that transition begins the moment you leave the coast behind and head inland. The air gets heavy and fragrant. You can see the mountians ahead. You can hear the birds, the monkeys and now nature is calling. What you’re following is not just a route — it’s a path into a civilization that shaped this country for more than 4,000 years. The Maya presence in Belize reaches back millennia, with...