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Home , Great Blue Hole, Half Moon Caye, Victoria Peak (Belize)

Activities We invite guests to fully explore the resort and the surroundings. We provide the following equipment complimentary with the purchase of any suite to explore the surrounding waters of the or the surrounding areas. Complimentary

KAYAK & PADDLE BOARD The Placencia Resort is on the Placencia Peninsula and sits on the coast of the Caribbean Sea. We invite you to explore the surrounding waters with the complimentary kayaks and paddle boards. Please ask the team for assistance and safety equipment.

BICYCLES Guests are invited to use the complimentary bicycles to explore the surrounding grounds or even ride to Placencia Village. Please ask the team for directions and safety equipment

FITNESS CENTER The fitness center is located next to the tennis courts and is open 7am to 9pm. You will find free , treadmills, and stationary bikes as well as yoga mats, straps, exercise balls, and resistance bands. Please ask if you need assistance.

TENNIS COURTS Guests are invited to play on the Har-Tru Clay Tech Courts. 11 Ask the front desk for tennis racket and ball rentals. World Class Fishing

FLY FISHING FISHING Go fly fishing with Blue Horizon, the only Take a relaxing boat ride out to the Orvis Endorsed outfitter in . Whether world’s second largest barrier reef to you are new to the sport or a seasoned fish in magnificent aqua blue waters! angler, Blue Horizon’s guides will create the Your captain will take you to his favorite experience of a lifetime. spot for your chance to catch snapper, Half Day Trips: A half day trip spans 4 hours grouper, mackerel, jacks, barracuda, and on the water with a professional fly fishing more. Taxes and optional gratuity are not guide, outfitted flats boats, fishing gear, and included. Minimum of 2 participants and a a cooler stocked with beverages and snacks. maximum of 6 participants for reef fishing Maximum two people per boat. Taxes and trips. Private boat options are available. optional gratuity are not included Half Day Trips: A half day trip spans 4 Full Day Trips: A full day trip spans 8 hours hours on the water with a professional on the water with a professional fly fishing guide, outfitted flats boats, fishing gear, and captain/guide, outfitted fishing boats, a cooler stocked with beverages, lunch, fishing gear, and a cooler stocked with and snacks. Maximum two people per boat. beverages and snacks. Taxes and optional gratuity are not included. Full Day Trips: A full day trip spans 8 hours DEEP SEA FISHING CHARTER on the water with a professional captain/ guide, outfitted fishing boats, fishing gear, Charter the Weak Moment for a private day and a cooler stocked with beverages, on the water! Our charters are fully loaded with a captain, mate, fuel, gear, bait and lunch, and snacks. tackle, towels, sunscreen, food, drinks, and anything else you think you might want. CATCH & COOK FISHING Choose from a day of hardcore deep sea This is a reef fishing trip with an island stop trolling for pelagic species, a combination to cook your catch! Only available as a full of trolling and reef fishing, or throw in some and if that is your day, this reef fishing trip includes all gear, desire. All you need to bring is yourself, a hat refreshments, and a freshly cooked lunch. and sunglasses, your favorite tropical playlist Whether you prefer trolling along the outer and an adventurous spirit. Charters are cayes or spin casting anywhere along the available for up to 6 anglers and 4 additional coast, you’ll get to experience it all. non-anglers. Full Day Trips: A full day trip spans 6-8 Includes: hours on the water with a captain/guide, • Captain and a first mate outfitted flats boats, fishing gear, and a • All meals and snacks throughout the trip cooler stocked with beverages, lunch, and • Local alcoholic and non-alcoholic snacks. beverages • Unlimited fishing (and snorkeling as you like) • Optional SCUBA diving for certified divers • Fuel, bait, and fishing gear • Pickup and drop-off

12 SCUBA Diving & Snorkeling

Snorkeling, PADI courses, and Discover SCUBA include equipment. Equipment may be rented for all other divers. Lunch is included.

RANGUANA CAYE BARRIER REEF DIVE FULL DAY • SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER 5 HOURS • SKILL LEVEL: NOVICE Ride out to the beautiful island of Ranguana A trip to the is suitable for Caye to experience some of the best both novice and experienced divers, with dive snorkeling in Belize. Nurse sharks, sea turtles, sites ranging from 35-65 feet deep. Each drift and stingrays can regularly be found along the dive allows you to relax and enjoy the mild reef just beyond the island. Ranguana Caye as you dive along multicolored walls and offers a unique opportunity for snorkelers to steep ridges teeming with remarkable sea life. enter the water directly from the shore, it’s This is a short, two-tank day. that close to the reef!

DISCOVER SCUBA GLOVER’S FULL DAY • SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER FULL DAY • SKILL LEVEL: NOVICE While not a SCUBA certification, this program An hour and a half boat ride gets you to the will allow you to safely dive with an instructor least explored atoll in Belize named by Jacques to get a taste of what diving is all about. This Cousteau as one of his favorite dive sites. Wall introductory dive lesson takes approximately diving from 40-60 ft offers the chance to see two hours with a certified PADI instructor. all kinds of rays, turtles and rivers of wrasse Once comfortable in the water, you’ll explore swimming along stunning coral structures at the reef together, diving to a maximum depth this United Nations World Heritage Site. This is of 40 feet. This is perfect for trying diving a long, three-tank day. before committing to a full certification course. OPEN WATER REFERRAL - PADI FULL DAY • SKILL LEVEL: ADVANCED SCUBA CERTIFICATION Hop on the boat to for a three- MULTI-DAY • SKILL LEVEL: BEGINNER tank dive day. Well known as one of Jacques Prior to your vacation, complete the Cousteau’s top dive destinations, Great Blue knowledge development and pool sessions Hole National Park is a sight to behold for at your local dive shop. Once you’re in Belize, snorkels and divers alike. This is a very deep we’ll spend two days finishing your open dive that reaches the limits of recreational water dives. Leave Belize with your PADI SCUBA diving, and is suitable for intermediate certification and a few completed dives along and advanced divers with at least 25 logged the largest living barrier reef in the world. dives. For safety purposes, all divers taking a trip to the must schedule a “check out dive” prior to departure. After exploring the Great Blue Hole, you visit two additional sites in the National Monument to complete this great adventure.

13 Water Excursions

RANGUANA TROPICAL ISLAND ST. HERMAN’S BLUE HOLE EXPERIENCE TUBING & SWIMMING

Cruise out to the picture-perfect 2-acre Spend your day enjoying the crystal blue private island from Placencia, Belize and waters of St. Herman’s National Park. A scenic spend your day in a pristine tropical paradise. drive through Belize’s citrus and banana farms Paddle board, kayak, hammock nap, brings you to St. Herman’s. You’ll start with a sunbathe, snorkel from the shore, drink, eat short 15-minute hike led by a knowledgeable and play beach games. Bully’s Beach Bar local guide where you’ll learn about the cave’s provides the music and libations while the archaeology and the geology of the surrounding staff prepares a delicious Beach Barbecue. Maya Mountain. Then you’ll settle in and spend Don’t forget to try the shotski at Bully’s Beach the next two hours lazily floating through the Bar! Includes Beach Barbecue lunch and “Maya Underworld.” After lunch, take a cool activities. Does not include beverages. and refreshing afternoon swim in The Blue Hole, formed from the collapse of an underground Bring: camera, sunscreen, swimsuit, hat, towel limestone cave. The river that ran through the Time: 5 Hours original cavern still flows through the cave Difficulty: Easy system to form a sapphire-colored pool at the bottom of the . WEAK MOMENT BOAT CHARTER Bring: bug spray, towel, bathing suit, dry clothes, Charter the ‘Weak Moment’ for an amazing sun screen, cash for souvenirs, camera day on the Caribbean Sea! Charters are fully Time: Full Day loaded with a captain, mate, and fuel, plus Difficulty: Easy towels, sunscreen, food, drinks, and anything else you think you might want! Your day on ATM CAVE the water is totally customizable for a perfect (ACTUN TUNICHIL MUKNAL) day in paradise. You can plan to go fishing, snorkeling, SCUBA diving, or island hopping. The ATM Cave is most famous as an ancient Charters are available for up to 10 people. archaeological site, containing the skeletal remains of Maya human sacrifices, pottery, Bring: hat, sunglasses, bathing suit, camera and other ancient artifacts. Visitors go bananas Time: Full Day over the fully intact skeleton from around 700- Difficulty: Easy 900 AD that literally sparkles, thanks to time and science. You’ll hike to the location, wade BIOLUMINESCENCE TOUR across rushing rivers in waist-deep water, climb

This experience exposes you to one of wet ladders inside a cave in just your socks, Belize’s Natural Wonders! This natural then enter a deep, dark hole in the side of a phenomenon only happens in a few select mountain because a tour guide told you to spots, like where the Sittee River meets (and maybe pee yourself a little – but that’s the Caribbean Sea. Start with a boat ride, okay!). This is one of the more difficult tours meandering through a jungle tunnel and offered in Belize, but the effort is well-worth mangrove ecosystem. When you arrive, you’ll the experience. Warning: This is not a cave be mesmerized by the Dinoagellates. Aside for young children, those not physically fit, with from the majesty of the neon glow, you can knee, hip or ankle problems or with problems also enjoy seeing fish, jellyfish, and other with claustrophobia and or heights. marine life frolicking beneath the surface. Bring: sunscreen, hat, swimsuit or , sturdy

shoes and socks, dry clothes, towel, souvenir cash Bring: camera, comfortable clothes, light jacket Time: Full Day 14 Time: Half Day Difficulty: Easy Jungle Excursions

COCKSCOMB BASIN, JUNGLE RIVER ZIPLINE & RIVER TUBE TUBING, & MAYA CHOCOLATE TOUR Experience the thrill of zipping high above the Cockscomb Basin is renowned for being the South Stann Creek River and rainforest canopy. world’s first and only preserve with Get a bird’s eye perspective of the river canyon over 128,000 acres of lush tropical rainforest. and surrounding mountains. Panoramic vistas Its home to all five of Belize’s large cats: from 11 decks and 7 lines with views that were jaguar, puma, margay, , and . previously available only to birds in flight. Enjoy Explore the jungle trails of this flora and fauna a snack and then hit the river in expedition- sanctuary with a naturalist tour guide. After style tubes as you float below lush vegetation your hike, tube or float down the river for a through jungle rapids. Here you could catch unique, close-up look at the jungle. Next, a glimpse of exotic tropical birds, including you’ll grab some lunch before heading over endangered scarlet macaws, iguanas, and to a nearby cacao farm. You’ll get a front other jungle wildlife. row seat to the ancient practice of chocolate Bring: bug spray, towel, long pants, swimsuit, making. You’ll learn everything there is to closed-toe shoes, sunscreen, camera, souvenir cash know about chocolate, including its many Time: Full Day healthy properties and how the ancient Maya Difficulty: Moderate civilizations used cacao beans as currency. RAINFOREST HORSEBACK Bring: bug spray, sunscreen, hat, light long pants, swimsuit, towel, dry clothes, camera, binoculars, RIDE & SWIM hiking shoes, souvenir cash Whether you’re an accomplished rider or Time: Full Day a novice, you’ll enjoy this unique riding Difficulty: Moderate experience. The horses are well trained and carefully selected to make even the most timid NIGHT HIKE AT COCKSCOMB BASIN rider look and feel like a professional! The ride JAGUAR PRESERVE will take you through pine ridges covered in The jaguar preserve comes alive at night. magnificent ferns, then through the rainforest You’ll get to hike its trails just after dusk for and its magnificent Cohune trees. After, the a one of a kind experience! In addition to trail takes you to the Sittee River where you the elusive jaguar, you may also see pumas, can choose to enjoy a cool, refreshing swim or and - Belize’s national simply relax on the river bank before heading animal. The Preserve is also home to the back. endangered Baird’s Tapir and over 290 Bring: bug spray, closed-toe shoes, light long different species of birds. On most nights, the pants, sunscreen, hat, air is clear enough to see the majestic shape swimsuit, towel, camera, souvenir cash of Victoria Peak, the highest point in Belize, Time: Half Day rising 3,675 feet about . This tour is Difficulty: Easy ideal for nature lovers and intrepid travelers alike. There is a strict 6 to 1 guest to guide ratio. We carry extra flashlights, batteries, machete, and full kit in the unlikely scenario where one is needed.

Bring: bug spray, hat, light long pants, camera, hiking shoes, souvenir cash Time: Half Day Difficulty: Easy 15 GARIFUNA CULTURAL LIVING MAYA EXPERIENCE & CULINARY ADVENTURE & This tour offers an enriching vacation The Living Maya Experience offers you an experience that completely immerses you immensely enjoyable visit to a Mayan home in the culture and traditions of the Garifuna in Big Falls Village. You will experience a people. Long hailed as “the teachers of traditional Mayan home, furnished with all Belize”, your Garifuna hosts, dressed in natural materials, from Balsa wood benches traditional attire, will teach you about the to beds of tree bark. The Living Maya history and tradition of one of Belize’s Experience is a must as the Kek’chi Maya prominent ethnic groups. You’ll learn about culture is quickly disappearing. You’ll spend the many magical and beneficial properties time in a Mayan home that offers a look back of the coconut and the art of traditional to a time when they depended on the land for coconut harvesting, husking, grating and everything from food to furniture to medicine. milk extraction - you’ll be an expert before You’ll even get to help cook (and enjoy!) a the day is through! Your labor of love will be traditional Maya meal. The traditional meal repaid many times over when you sit down that will be served is chicken, prepared only to partake in a delicious Hudut, a coconut- with organic seasonings including recado, based soup with fresh herbs and the catch cilantro & culantro. After lunch, visit Nim Li of the day. Your meal will be served with Punit. This Maya site is named for a carving pounded plantains and fried fish. At the end found on the longest of the site’s twenty-six of the day, you’ll learn the basic drumming stone monuments, or stelae. The longest techniques of the Garifuna parranda and stelae is carved with a figure wearing a large punta rhythms. Let the beat of the Primera headdress and, at a length of 30 feet, is the and Segunda drums revitalize you and end longest discovered in Belize and one of the your night with a sweet treat - a traditional tallest in the Maya world. Garifuna dessert. Bring: bug repellent, sunscreen, hat, swimsuit, Bring: camera towel, camera, sturdy shoes, souvenir cash Time: Full Day Time: Full Day Difficulty: Easy Difficulty: Moderate

XUNANTUNICH (STONE MAIDEN) & BLUE HOLE CAVE TUBING Enjoy the orange groves, banana farms, and a view of the during the scenic drive through the Hummingbird Highway. Once you cross into Western Belize, your journey takes you across the Mopan River on a hand-cranked ferry to reach the ancient site of . The reward for climbing to the top of El Castillo is a spectacular view of both the Cayo District and Petén, Guatemala. After your climb, it’s time for lunch at a local restaurant before heading to St. Herman’s Blue Hole National Park. Here you can choose from an exhilarating cave-tubing experience through the intricate cave system or simply a refreshing dip at the inland Blue Hole.

Bring: bug spray, towel, bathing suit, dry clothes, closed-toe shoes, sunscreen, camera, souvenir cash Time: Full Day Moderate 16 Difficulty: