About this experience
Explore an extensive network of enormous caves filled with natural crystal formations. Float by tube through hidden chambers few visitors ever see, then wade and swim through crystal-clear pools and follow winding paths to dazzling crystalized walls, towering columns, and ancient Maya pottery fragments.
What to expect
Your guide provides helmets, lights, and jackets. After a scenic 25-minute walk at your own pace, you’ll reach the cave entrance and can take a refreshing swim in clear, spring-fed water.
Your guide will then help everyone onto their tubes and lead you through Xibalba, the Maya underworld, pointing out sparkling crystal formations along the way. You’ll drift past an underground waterfall before emerging at the cave exit, then continue floating downstream to the parking area.
Afterward, relax with a well-earned siesta.
Join us for a truly unique adventure!
At a glance
- Duration: 5 hr 30 min
Plan your experience
Set aside 5 hr 30 min for the experience itself, with additional time to reach your meeting or pickup point.
Before you go
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- minimum child height 50 inches and minimum age 13 years
Local guides to help you plan
Cave Tubing in Belize Guide
Plan a Belize cave-tubing day with practical advice on Nohoch Che’en, guided tours, costs, weather, safety equipment, mobility considerations, and St. Herman’s Cave.
What is included
- Safety equipment: life jacket, safety helmet, and headlamp
- Tube portage service to the cave entrance
- local Belizean Rice and beans with stew chicken and veg cole slaw
- Guided cave-tubing excursion with certified guide and driver
- Round-trip transfers from Belize City cruise port, select city hotels, and water taxi terminals
- River tube with mesh seat bottom, backrest, and headrest
Not included
- Gratuities for drivers and guides
- Water shoes (required; available for rental on site)
Itinerary and highlights
Your Belize adventure begins with a convenient pickup one hour after your ship docks, followed by a scenic one-hour drive into the country’s lush interior. Once you’re fitted with a life jacket, helmet, and headlamp, a gentle 20-minute rainforest walk leads to the cave entrance, while our staff carries the deluxe tubes to the launch site for you.
Settle into an oversized tube with a mesh bottom, backrest, and cup holders as your expert guide leads you into the ancient Mayan underworld. You’ll float beneath towering stalactite columns, then step ashore to explore hidden crystal chambers on foot. Along the way, look for Maya pottery shards over a thousand years old, a sparkling “frozen” crystal waterfall, and a rock formation shaped like a jaguar.
The journey ends with a relaxing 10-minute open-air float downstream to the parking area. From there, you’ll be taken back to the cruise port, hotel, or water taxi.
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Meeting and pickup information
- we Pick up at the Cruise Port, Terminal one EXIT, streetside. City Hotels, Airport, water taxi terminals, Cruiseships visiting the Belize city port, passengers are brought to the FSTV port of Belize.We pick up at the Cruise Port FSTV, the V.i.V guide will meet cruise passengers at terminal 1 EXIT, street side. for cruise passengers the tour starts 1 hour after the ship arrives in port. Cruise ship tenders in Belize typically accommodate between 150 and 250 passengers per vessel. These large, high-speed catamarans, facilitate the 30-minute trip from the ships anchored far offshore to the tourist village. the cruise ships tours arrive within the first wave to shore then independent book tours arrive, making your tour possible. within and hour from the ship arriving in port, you are ashore and ready to explore Belize.
Languages and tickets
- English — Guide
- Spanish — Guide
- Mobile Only
Tour operator
- Tourism Auto Transport Ltd.
Accessibility and practical details
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Not recommended for pregnant travelers
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- All children heights MUST be advised at time of booking
- minimum child height 50 inches and minimum age 13 years
Cancellation policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Questions about this experience
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Cruise ship tenders in Belize typically accommodate between 150 and 250 passengers per vessel. These large, high-speed catamarans, facilitate the 30-minute trip from the ships anchored far offshore to the tourist village. the cruise ships tours arrive within the first wave to shore then independent book tours arrive, making your tour possible. within and hour from the ship arriving in port, you are ashore and ready to explore Belize.
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