Caribbean Cruise

Our next stop was Belize. We did a ship excursion and had a great time on it. Cave Tubing! We went by bus out to the jungle, walked a path thru the jungle carrying our inner tubes with a helmet and head lamp . When we got to the cave opening we all got into our tubes and floated 1/2 mile thru the cave, what an adventure! We came out the other side and floated out thru the sunshine down the river. They fed us lunch then up in this wooded grass roofed structure that was up in the tree tops.
Belize is a very poor country, garbage just everywhere but the jungle and cave tubing was a great experience. It's in a protected area like in the US we'd have a national park. Our guide for our group of 8 was very knowledgeable about the local trees and poisonous plants and where their natural medicines come from. He picked us some "allspice" leaves as we went down the river, amazing to smell that out in the jungle, smelled like we should be having pumpkin bread!

We were glad to get off the Rickety bus and back to the big boat!