Feeling like one thing completely different in your subsequent journey?
As a lot as we love Mexico’s main resort metropolis, Cancun, and right here at Travel Off Path we have lined it extensively for years, generally all you want is one thing slightly out of the unusual. You know, straying off the crushed monitor slightly.
If you are planning on a Caribbean journey, however you do not need to go the place nearly everybody else is headed, you must know Spirit Airlines is launching direct flights to Belize, a small, lesser-known nation simply south of Mexico, for under $85.
Belize has these white-sand seashores, turquoise seas, and even Mayan ruins, and most significantly, it feels far much less commercialized:
Where Even Is Belize?
The first nation you move via whenever you go away Mexico and enter Central America, Belize is a small nation of 8,867 sq mi, solely barely bigger than the U.S. state of Massachusetts, characterised by its lush jungle and unspoiled Caribbean coast.
The latter is, with out query, the nation’s main attraction, with unruffled sands extending for what looks like countless miles, and laid-back islands that haven’t but succumbed to the pressures of overtourism, although they’re open to foreigners.
Think Caye Caulker, simply off the mainland, dwelling to a vibrant foremost settlement, distinguished by its vibrant-colored wood homes and energetic seaside bars, or Ambergris Caye, Belize’s largest island, and a extremely sought-after vacation spot for snorkelers and divers worldwide.
After all, Belize’s maritime borders embrace the 124m-deep Great Blue Hole, a deep-azure sinkhole ringed by teal-colored seas, and Ambergris Caye specifically affords easy accessibility to the attraction.
Wait, Do They Have Mayan Ruins Here Too?
To the tradition buffs on the market, Belize has a wealthy native Mayan tradition that is usually overshadowed by its way more well-known neighbor to the north.
Tucked away within the nation’s jungle-clad hinterlands, San Ignacio is a wonderful riverside city dwelling to the ruined Mayan city of Cahal Pech, deserted as early because the ninth century, and largely preserved from looting.
Belize’s crown jewel, nevertheless, is Caracol: one of the spectacular historical pre-Columbian cities, with over 100,000 residents at its peak, it’s dwelling to the ‘Sky Palace’, a monumental pyramid that also holds the title of the tallest constructing in Belize, rising 141 ft tall.
If you are visiting Caracol, San Ignacio is a good base, as most roads resulting in the archaeological zone begin from there, and there are quite a few tour operators you’ll be able to decide from. Prices for this in style Caracol & Big Rock Waterfall tour begin from solely $130 per particular person.
For extra equally fascinating Mayan ruins, lookup Lamanai, well-known for its quaint lakeside setting, and the magical Altun Ha, simply exterior Belize City.
Fly Nonstop To Belize City From Fort Lauderdale With Spirit
Speaking of Belize City, although it’s not the capital, as many have mistakenly claimed within the blogosphere through the years—that title belongs to inland Belmopan—it’s the place Spirit Airlines shall be flying to beginning November 21, 2025.
After all, it’s the largest conurbation within the 417,000-people-strong nation, with over 65,000 residents, and although it is not the nation’s administrative middle, it performs host to its largest worldwide airport.
Soon sufficient, Americans will have the ability to board nonstop flights in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) touring to Belize City’s Philip S.W. Goldson International Airport (BZE).
Flights shall be accessible thrice per week, on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and introductory fares have been set at $85 one-way from South Florida to Belize, and $180 one-way for the return journey. Tickets go on sale August 11.
In the phrases of John Kirby, Spirit’s Vice President of Network Planning, Belize is an ‘unimaginable addition’ to their worldwide service, owing to the nation’s ‘world-class water excursions and exquisite landscapes’.
How To Prepare For A Belize Vacay
If you have by no means actually given Belize an excessive amount of thought, you should be questioning what to anticipate relating to, nicely, Belize as a vacation spot.
How protected is it? What are the entry necessities that apply to Americans? Does it have a kind of annoying Entry Travel Requirements it is advisable to get earlier than flying out? What does the U.S. State of Department advise that Americans do?
Digging up all this information on-line is not all the time straightforward, particularly when you do not even know the place to kick issues off, and people official authorities websites? Straight-up not possible to make sense of at instances.
That’s why we launched the Traveler Tools, Travel Off Path’s assortment of user-friendly, interactive devices that enable you unravel it in underneath a minute, with out opening all these tabs, and all of the pointless fluff.
Check it out for your self right here.
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