The Caves Branch cave system is the most popular and frequented cave in Belize. It is conveniently located and easily accessible. Visitors come from all over the world to do the cave tubing tour here. (this tour is usually combined with the zip-line tour, see the 'combo-tours' page for the combination tours information)

Tour Description: This underground river experience combines cave-tubing and cave exploration through Spectacular crystal formations over 5,000,000 years old.

This is the most popular inland cave tour in Belize. This amazing tour departing from Belize City, takes approximately forty-five minutes drive up the Western Highway and then about fifteen minutes to get to the parking lot of the Nohoch Chi'en Archeological Reserve.

During your trip, your guide will be explaining historical and geographical facts about Belize, and also how the ancient Maya civilization used the caves for rituals and ceremonies.

At the site you have access to the modern changing and rest room facilities. After everyone has prepared to get wet, your guide will hand out to each person, a life vest, an inner tube and a head lamp. For those who need to keep any personal belongings safe and dry through the caves, ask your guide to place it in the dry bag.

Next a tour safety briefing then you will take a short walk through the jungle that will bring you to the cave system. At this time the guide will lead you across the crystal clear water of the Sibun river to the opposite bank. Your jungle trek commences here. Along the way you will learn about the traditional medicinal plants and herbal remedies that the ancient Mayan civilization used for thousands of years. This little jungle trek will take about 35 to 45 minutes depending on psce.

You now reach the entry point into the Sibun river. Put on your life-jackets ad head-lamps, then your guide will assist you into the river and onto your inner tube. "The cave adventure begins", you will now float on your tubes through the caves seeing magnificent rock formations, cave bats (maby) and waterfall. Imagine turning off the lights and feel time stand still as you float through an ancient ceremonial center. This portion of the tour will take about 35 to 45 minutes.

Exiting the cave you float down the river through the jungle for another 20 to 30 minutes to the point where you started your journey.

Indeed this is the best and safest adventure you will ever experience. This trip is good for all different ages and fitness levels.  

What to bring: sun block, bug spray, towel, dry clothes
Suggested Footwear: Hiking shoes, wet shoes
Tour Duration: 4.5 hrs     

Remember our CAVE-TUBING SPECIAL!!! (cruise ship pax only)
Overnighter's price $65.00 USD P.P

Includes Entrance Fees !!!!!!!
$55.00 USD with Lunch

Cave Tubing & Zip Line Combo: $95.00 USD
Overnighter's price is $115.00 USD P.P

We will take care of your every need while in Belize. Our Cave tubing tour includes rum punch for only $2.00, just request it when booking your tour.

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?IMPORTANT NOTICE!!!?

During the months from July to November of every year Belize experiences the rainy season. For the most part it is dry and sunny but there are sudden rain storms that come along every so often. Because of the unpredictable nature of the rains, it is difficult to give warning when the rivers will be flooding their banks. The rains cause the rivers to rise and hence the government closes the cave tubing park. Once the park is closed this means that we cannot do the cave tubing tour, but there are alternative tours.

The rains may occur two days prior to your arrival and may cause the government agency in charge of the park to close it on the same morning of the booked tour. DO NOT worry, you are on vacation and you are here to have a great time with ?Explore Belize Caves?!

More Information on the Caves Branch River

From the Mountain Pine Ridge, the Caves Branch River descends into the valleys of the Sibun Hills and joins the Sibun River. On its course, it passes through green forests that hide white cliffs under a blue sky.

Rugged describes the hills from the head waters of the Caves Branch between Cooma Cairn and Baldy Sibun to its link with the Sibun River. The catchment basin is only 88 square km, but a substantial river pours out of its bowl. All along its course, the limestone of the hills and valleys pirates the surface water to form underground streams that feed the Caves Branch. The Caves Branch itself flows for only 10 km before it also is swallowed by the limestone hills through which it has forced a channel to meet the Sibun. Where the river flows on the surface, there are cut banks as much as 10 meters deep into the limestone and is protected from further piracy from the limestone below by accumulating cobble, gravel and shale that has cemented into a non-porous bed. The valley which the Caves Branch has carved is only 2 km wide and the steep sided hills which are more like cliffs average 30 meters in height. Erosion has isolated the hills from each other and cut them into many shapes and sizes so to climb one hill, one must descend into the next valley to ascend the next. Geologists call this limestone terrain cockpit karst. The most effective way to hike the terrain is to travel through the narrow and winding valleys between these hills. The hilltops are nearly bare rock and are deeply fissured. The plants which grab foothold on the tops are succulents since the rainfall runs off the hilltops or percolates into the fissures. The slopes of these hills are really short cliffs, one set on top of another all the way t the top. Trees on the way up manage a precarious toe-hold and are easily buffeted down during high winds. During heavy rains, hundreds of small streams, some lasting a mere four hours, flow down the hillsides and into the valleys below. Water, which percolates into these hills form more enduring underground streams and over the millennia, they have dissolved thousands of caves into the landscape.

Since the 17th century when Europeans arrived to log the forests, the caves have been used as shelter from the rain and cold by the loggers, chicleros, and hunters who followed. These days rural Belizeans may picnic in the mouths of these caves and more unscrupulous visitors hunt pre-Columbian artifacts the Mayas left behind, The Mayas were the first to venture into the caves. The most reknown in the area is the Petroglyph Cave wit its hieroglyphic texts on the walls. Possibly all of these caves contain pottery, shards of pottery, and even burial grounds. The Mayas had a special reverence for the caves since their entrances were considered to be the entrances to Xibalba, there Underworld. According to their creation stories, several deities inhabit these caves.