Best Belizean Great Blue Hole, Caracol Maya Ruins, ATM Cave, Caye Caulker, Ambergris, San Ignacio and Belize Deep Reef Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Belize travel | Americas destinations Best Belizean Great Blue Hole (UNESCO 1996), Caracol Maya Ruins, ATM Cave, Caye Caulker, Ambergris, San Ignacio and Belize Deep Reef Heritage Tour Destinations I have planned three Belize trips since 2019, the most recent one stretching across 11 days in February 2026, and every visit has rearranged what I thought I knew about Central American travel. Belize sits on the Caribbean coast between Mexico and Guatemala, covers 22,966 square kilometres, holds a population of roughly 410,000 people, and yet packs the second-largest barrier reef on the planet, the world's most photographed marine sinkhole, more than 600 catalogued Maya sites, a jungle cave that still contains a 1,000-year-old skeleton encrusted in calcite, and a Garifuna drumming culture that UNESCO recognised in 2001. This guide is the version I wish I had on my first arrival into Philip S. W. Goldson International Airport (airport code BZE). TL;DR Belize is ...