Caves Branch Belize Underground River Cave

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Related blog post (history of running the Caves Branch River):

Re-connecting with an old friend in the jungle

Belize's Premier River Cave

The Belize Cave Branch River (view from the put-in, shown at right) flows through four caves on its course from the Maya Mountains to its confluence with the Sibun River. Slickrock puts-in near Ian Anderson's Caves Branch Jungle Lodge. If you are interested in Belize cave tubing, you may contact them; they offer cave tubing rather than rafting and kayaking. After the put-in you paddle through several miles of jungle and orange groves before arriving at a rugged section of hills that have eroded into what is known as karst topography.

Huge white cliffs covered with vines rise dramatically from the thick jungle, and suddenly the river veers right into one, where we enter a river cave that soon envelopes us in complete darkness. (the mouth of the first cave is at right.) Using headlamps for lighting the way, the current takes us though the caves, which occasionally pass by openings into the jungle.

The second cave begins with a sump, where the water dives completely underground and leaves no passage. Here we must portage for a few hundred yards through the jungle to one of the windows mentioned above, where we can get back on the river and continue on. Dramatic openings covered with stalagtites and vines pass us by as we move in and out of the caves, and we stop at a tributary which joins the river underground and hike a short distance along this new cave.

No visitor to Belize should miss this fabulous one-of-a-kind experience! This truly has to be seen to be believed.

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