Western Belize Tourism, starting to slowly pick up.

Now the hysteria in the USA and some of Europe is dying down over their swindles and gambling with banking credit swaps and other examples of criminality and greed in their major financial banking circles, tourism seems to be picking up a bit around Cayo Western Belize.
Things haven't got back to normal yet, but there is a small trickle flow that seems to be slowly increasing here in March, after the dead months of December and January, during the height of the television media talk shows of self serving PANIC they have been spreading among their own countrymen.

BELIZE LOW BUDGET TOURIST STUDY REVELATIONS

A study of low budget visitors, using cabins, rooms and hostels in Belize, reveal that 80% of the tourist travelers staying overnight in both Guatemala and the country of Belize are European girls in their mid-twenties.
This has implications for advertising purposes by the Belize Tourist Board in our country of Belize, as we can focus advertising on this niche tourist group. It also has implications as to the types of facilities, the décor and services that should be applicable for the private sector

Caving Belize, ATM cave, Actun Tunichil Muknal cave, spelunking, etc.

This is a complete whole pot found inside the ATM cave a mile away from the entrance. Actun Tunichil Cave trip. Twin Town tour operators, about four are licensed to do this trip into XIBALBA, a sacrificial site a mile underground and entrance to the Mayan underworld mythology.
We usually have PACZ TOURS pick up our ATM expedition all day guests at the Falconview Backpackers Adventure Hostel. They are the best. The all day trip runs $80 usa usually. Though in off-season it might be $5 cheaper.

http://folkmusicfl.tripod.com/actuntunichilmuknal/
http://folkmusicfl.tripod.com/adventuresinbelize/
http://westernbelizehappenings.blogspot.com ( news and photos of interest on Western Belize )

Barton Creek Tourist destination.

The Barton Creek Cave trip is by canoe and while not that impressive, if you are a survivalist type, it is way back in the boonies among the old time Mennonite farms, where they do everything with horses, shun modern electronics and gasoline engines. There are even a number of survivalist farms back there into organic self sufficiency. Barton Creek locally is famous for the potato production agriculturally speaking. This cave entrance starts just beyond a creek side camp ground in an orchard, on the side of Barton Creek, where it turns against an overhead cliff and hill ridge, forming a great swimming hole, with ropes strung from trees. Backpackers like it, with their own tents. Barton Creek has a big open sided lodge type structure, on which you can sling a sleeping bag in case it rains. Sometimes they have soft drinks imported from the Twin Towns about 30 miles away. The road getting in there is very rough and the last mile access has to ford the creek, about eighteen inches deep up to your axles on a car, over a gravel creek bottom. It is expensive getting a ride into this remote area. Though the proprietors of Barton Creek Lodge go back and forth shopping to the Twin Towns usually once a day and can arrange a ride for long time campers. You have to pay for renting the canoes to go into the low cave system with a guide. They only have a few canoes, about four. There are a couple of guides working this tourist destination out of the Twin Towns Tourist Operators. Not sure if you can contact them through Pacz tours or not, but I suspect so.