Lamanai Travel Blogs

For this tour we had to get up at 5:30 in the morning.  Our tour guide was to pick us up at 6:15.  However, we were at our dock until almost 7 before getting picked up!  We had started wondering if we had been gypped!  Luckily we had not paid in full we had only left a $100 depo…

Lamanai I would rate this a 4 star recommended if the access was a drive to type. A 26 mile boat ride up the New River is the easiest way to get to Lamanai. The journey may be as interesting as the ruins of Lamanai itself for the "birder" or a nature lover in general. Lamanai "submerged crocodile,"…

Every year, I try to do at least one ruins trip to see something new and this year was Lamanai which everyone raves about, especially due to the long ride up the river which provides great scenery!  Lamanai means "submerged crocodile" and was once a large city in the Maya civilization, locat…

Woke up this morning, got ready... sprayed myself thoroughly with my 100% DEET... and then headed out to the lobby for the trip to Lamanai.  While waiting for the driver to be ready, I met 2 newlyweds on their honeymoon from Biloxi/Gulfport, Mississippi, Tucker & Danielle.  We ch…

4 Introverts and 1 extrovert on a mission to see Mayan ruins and chill out in Belize.

Lamanai I would rate this a 4 star recommended if the access was a drive to type. A 26 mile boat ride up the New River is the easiest way to get to Lamanai. The journey may be as interesting as the ruins of Lamanai itself for the "birder" or a nature lover in general. Lamanai "submerged crocodi…

From 2001-'03 I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer at Hol Chan Marine Reserve in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye, Belize. I acted as the biologist and environmental outreach coordinator for HCMR. It was a very fulfilling experience. Belize and San Pedro will always hold a little piece of my heart. Note: many of these pictures are scanned images of film photos and are therefore not of a very high quality. They are here for the content. Sorry!

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Lamanai ,"submerged crocodile", I would rate this a 4 star recommended if the access was a drive to type. A 26 mile boat ride up the New River is the easiest way to get to Lamanai. The journey may be as interesting as the ruins of Lamanai itself for the "birder" or a nature lover in general. …