Belize’s Ecological Tours & Services Launches New Website

Ecological Tours & Services launched a new web site, www.BookBelizeTours.com, specializing in cruise passenger shore excursions. As a local tour operator, BookBelizeTours.com is able to offer private and personalized tours. Trips include cruise excursions, Belize City Shore Trips and extended vacations. Activities available include a cave tubing adventure or a snorkeling trip at the second largest barrier reef in the world.

Ecological Toursis one of a few businesses that have offices on the pier. Guides are trained and licensed by the Belize Tourism Board and operations are accredited by the Caribbean Tourism Organization (CTO). The company has customized tours exclusively to fit cruise ship times and ports. Packages are priced 30 to 50 percent less than excursions offered on the cruise ships and are more private and customized. Tours do not have the crowds normally seen when booking through the cruise ships.

Among the most popular tours is the Cave Tubing and Zipline Adventure. Once the entrance to the underground cave system is reached there will be time to experience a 15-foot cliff dive, after which a guide will hand out miner’s lamps and cave tubes. The gentle currents will take adventurers cave tubing through the cave system. Intricate crystalline formations line the cave and the majestic rise and fall of stalagmites and stalactites add to the serene opulence of nature.

Clients can experience Belize’s jungle on a zipline adventure. Shark-Ray Alley is a shallow cut to the south of Hol Chan where nurse sharks and sting rays congregate. Guides sometimes chum to attract the sharks, and snorkelers can jump in and swim with them. A Jungle River Cruise takes clients on a scenic waterway to see crocodiles, howler monkeys, iguanas, and lots of birds. Lush tropical foliage lines this waterway. Clients disembark at Burrell Boom, a community which was once a logging camp, for shopping, refreshments and a locally prepared lunch.

A tour of Aztec ruins takes clients to Altun-Ha (Maya for Stone Water), which was a trading post to the Maya World during the Post Classic and Classic periods. This was home to the largest carved Jade Head depicting the Sun God Kinich Ahau. Weighing in at almost nine pounds, this has been Belize’s most valuable find. After this travel back to Belize City for the other half of the tour. See historical sites such as the Redbrick St. John’s Cathedral, where Kings from the Mosquito Coast were crowned and the colonial mansion once occupied by British Governors.