BELIZE ADVENTURE BLOG

By Slickrock Adventures | December 6, 2012

Sometimes you have to get creative to get to Belize on the cheap. I just found out about a sale going on for discount US flights. These are only deals on domestic routes, but it covers flights from January through May. Visit this link and see if you can find a good deal on AirTran from your town to one of the places you can fly to Belize from (Houston, Miami, Charlotte, Atlanta, or Dallas). Then s

By Slickrock Adventures | December 5, 2012

We keep track of flights to Belize for our website, which we update weekly. I just found the lowest rates from Canada to Belize that I have ever seen. Round trip from Montreal to Belize is $554 and from Toronto it is $553. You can view more about this on our Belize flights web page.

By Slickrock Adventures |

When we first started running sea kayaking tours in Belize we were kind of inventing things as we went. There wasn’t anyone else doing it and there were no examples to follow. Our first trips launched from a sandy beach just past the end of the sidewalk in the little town of Placencia. Our guests would camp there the first night and then the next morning we would set out in our sea kayaks lo

By Slickrock Adventures | December 4, 2012

Learning to roll a sea kayak can be more difficult than learning to roll a river kayak simply because there’s more boat to roll up. That’s why on Adventure Island we use river kayaks for the first stage of teaching our guests how to roll, only graduating to sea kayaks after you’ve already gotten the feel for rolling up in a lighter boat. Adventure Island is also one of friendlies

By Slickrock Adventures | December 3, 2012

Will the conch season in Belize have to be shortened? Might we need to control the amount of conch that we eat year per year? These are a couple of questions that Belize, including other Caribbean nations, might have to consider as Caribbean ministers will come together to discuss a conch petition for CARICOM during Caribbean Week of Agriculture 2012 in Antigua and Barbuda. A United States petitio

By Slickrock Adventures | November 30, 2012

This article in the New York Times highlights recent discovers about a particularly unique jellyfish, Turritopsis dohrnii, more commonly known as the immortal jellyfish. Even though we don’t see this species down in Belize, we do see two varieties at Glover’s Reef, the Upside Down Jellyfish and the Sea Thimble Jellyfish. They are discussed in this post following the brief excerpt from

By Slickrock Adventures | November 29, 2012

Okay, so this isn’t specific to Belize, but being the only surf center in Belize with direct shore access to a surf break we’re pretty much just crazy about anything cool or new that’s happening in the surf world. So we were pretty excited about this new video put out by GoPro, the folks who make those cool small, lightweight, waterproof, and self contained video cameras designed

By Slickrock Adventures | November 27, 2012

Belize is famous for it’s underground rivers, the most amazing example of which is probably The Caves Branch River. We include a floating river tour of The Caves Branch River in our Belize Adventure Week package. But apparently, Belize is not the only place with such amazing natural wonders — witness Puerto Princesa Underground River in the Philippines: The Puerto Princesa Subterranea

By Slickrock Adventures | November 19, 2012

Much of Belize’s topography is composed of a ‘karst’ landscape, which consists of deeply eroded limestone hills. Karst lands are typically honeycombed with caves, and Belize is no exception. The country is famous among international cave explorers, who have discovered and mapped innumerable Belize caves. Belize contains the second largest underground chamber in the world, over 1/