Actun Tunichil Muknal Cayo

After being delivered back at the marina we jumped into our rental car and headed for the hills. On the way we stopped at the Belize Zoo. This little zoo with local animals should not be missed. We also stopped at the Prison Gift Shop. The gift shop sells inmates arts and crafts.

We drove up to San Ignacio and found the Parrot Nest Lodge …

So today we were Indiana Jones for the Day.

We went and saw Actun Tunichil Muknal or ATM. We had 7am start but our tour guide was crook so it ended up being an 8am start, spewing, could of slept in. All good our replacement tour guide was heaps better.

So we got a bus ride to the middle of no where, then trekked through some …

... , on the advice of some girls we met during our diving certification. One of the main attractions in the area is Actun Tunichil Muknal, a huge cave in which the remains of Mayan sacrifices and offerings still exist. There´s a whole bunch of wading, ...

... puttered around the village. It gave me time for my climbing muscles to recover for our next trip the following day to Actun Tunichil Muknal cave.          We went with a different guide to this cave, a local ...

... cave explorations. I decided it was time to head underground, so I signed up for a tour of the Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) cave, where ancient Mayan pottery and even human remains have been found from rituals and sacrifices performed ...

... Just make sure you don't step on the pots,' the guide told us as we arrived at the main chamber of the Actun Tunichil Muknal caves. We reached the caves after a hike through the subtropical forest of the Tapir Mountain Reserve jungle in western Belize. ...

Yesterday, Evan, Andy (dude from Indy) and I took an all day tour to the Actun Tunichil Muknal caves outside San Ignacio. These were originally discovered back in the 80`s and contain tons of INTACT Mayan artifacts from the late classical period circa ...

... ;San Ignacio was to do the 'ATM tour'. No, not a trip around old Mayan cash machines, but a walk/swim through the Actun Tunichil Muknal cave. The cave, aka 'The Cave of the Stone Sepulchre', is about a 45 minute drive followed by a 45 minute trek ...

ATM stands for Actun Tunichil Muknal which is Mayan for something like Cave of the Stone Sepulcher. We did a day tour which involved a jungle trek through rivers to get to the cave which we swam into. Then after climbing over ...

San Ignacio is the adventure location in Belize with the Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM) caves being one of the many attractions. I had never done any caving before but the tour sounded right up my street.  They described it to me ...

Jan 9th - Today we went spelunking in the Actun Tunichil Muknal caves near San Ignacio.  It was really a good day, myself Colm and Beck even got to have a kickabout with a footy when we stopped on the way there.  A 45 minute trek ...

... of shamans and skeletons of ancestors remain visible today! I was able to witness all this and more within watery Actun Tunichil Muknal Cave (ATM for short), an incredible adventure awaited me, deep within a cave hidden away in the Belizean tropical ...