Barton Creek Caves
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Barton Creek Cave is a natural cave in Belize, known as both an archaeological site and as a tourist destination. It is located in the Barton Creek area near San Ignacio in the Cayo District.
Barton Creek Cave is a primarily single-passage resurging stream cave. By 2002 a cave survey had been completed by the Western Belize Regional Cave Project, recording a total of 6,400 m (21,000 ft) of passages; dye traces at sinking streams above the cave indicated that there could be a further 6 km (3.7 mi) of cave passages beyond the terminal sumps. By 2005 the Xibalba Mapping and Exploration Team had extended the survey to 8 km (5.0 mi).
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Departure Time
8:00 AM -
Return Time
1:00 PM -
Dress Code
Comfortable clothing and foot wear (preferably water shoes like keens, tevas or chacos). Optional: Sun block, repellent, hats. Do not forget your cameras!
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Tour Plan
Barton Creek cave canoeing: This archeological site is located some 20 miles south east of San Ignacio town or roughly about 1hr 20 minutes drive. We will be driving through some orange orchards as well as some open fields and through the Barton Creek Mennonite (Amish) community and farms.
Upon arriving at the reserves we will gear up to canoe through this cave systems, where by hundreds stalactites and stalagmites (cave formations) are seen, as well as inside of this cave systems there are evidence of ancient Maya rituals.
We canoe inside this system about a mile or roughly about a hour and a half. After this tour we drive back to the resort.
This is a half day tour that can be combined with other tours.
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