Belize Events
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17.904247 -87.980027 | 1 The whole of Belize celebrates carnival, but nowhere throbs quite like San Pedro on Ambergris Caye. Kids and adults alike attempt to cover each other in a cocktail of lipstick, paint and… |  |
17.189877 -88.49765 | 2 La Ruta Maya Belize River Challenge Can you undertake the 175-mile challenge of La Ruta Maya? The Mayan Route is a testing five-day canoe race from San Ignacio to Belize City, cutting across the country along the Macal and… | |
17.189877 -88.49765 | 3 Baron Bliss, a wealthy Englishman who inherited his title from Portugal, is Belize's best-loved patron. In grateful commemoration of his philanthropy he is remembered by one and all on 9 March… |  |
4 Feast on Carribean-style dishes and sip on cashew wine at Belize's Cashew Festival, held at Crooked Tree Village. Games and live Punta music are all part of the fun at the event, held in… | ||
17.904247 -87.980027 | 5 Street stalls and restaurants take part in the opening-season party of San Pedro Lobsterfest every year. Sample Caribbean spiny lobster prepared in all manner of guises and quaff fruity… |  |
17.0666 -89.0166 | 6 A fascinating hybrid of Christian and ancient Mayan culture, San Antonio's Deer Dance Festival in southern Belize is off the beaten track, but well worth a detour. Obscure ritualistic dances… |  |
7 Belize celebrates its independence on St George's Caye Day, which offers ample excuse for dancing and a great deal of punta (local music), lasting more or less right through to the country's… | ||
8 Cultural, religious and sporting activities take place on Independence Day in Belize - and the gap between this public holiday and St George's Caye Day on 10 September involves a lot of time… | ||
9 Garifuna Settlement Day showcases the rich, unique Garifuna culture with the commemoration of their first arrival in Belize in 1832. Dance along to local punta music and watch the re-enactment… |  | |
10 Easily one of the most famous dive sites and marine wonders in the world, Belize's strikingly coloured Blue Hole measures 305 metres wide and 123 metres deep. | ||
11 Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System The largest barrier reef in the northern hemisphere hugs the coast of Belize with its splendid and numerous sand cays, mangrove forests, coastal lagoons and estuaries, that together earned the… |  | |
12 Altun Ha, meaning 'water of the rock', basks in the historic glory of being the most discovered Mayan site in Belize and the principal ceremonial centre and trading point in the area during… | ||
13 The city of Lamanai, or 'submerged crocodile', was named after the flourishing crocodile population in the nearby New River Lagoon and dates back to 1500BC, thriving as a community of farmers… | ||
14 The thrilling speedboat ride to Ambergris Caye is almost enough to coax visitors to the idyllic island, let alone the pristine beaches and aquatic sports once there. Fishing, scuba diving… | ||
15 St Herman's Blue Hole National Park St Herman's Cave and the Blue Hole are the two main points of scenic beauty in this lush national park of the same name, where birds such as emerald green jacamars and blue-crowned motmots… | ||
16 The curious name of this national park comes from the different hues of blue detected in the lake that sits gracefully in the middle of it, nestled among the limestone hills that are thickly… | ||
17 There can't be too many opportunities out there to swim with bottlenose dolphins, but this one in Belize has to be one of the best of them - and while you bond, you help researchers too. |  |
