Lamanai Mayan Site and Safari River tour from Belize City

Embark on a thrilling adventure to the Lamanai Mayan Site in Northern Belize, where you’ll explore the ancient ruins and cruise along the scenic New River. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Mayan history and natural beauty!

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Orange Walk - After being picked up by your driver, you’ll head north from Belize City for about an hour. During the drive, your guide will share insights into Belize’s history and culture. Enjoy the scenic views, including the Belize River and quaint villages. You’ll stop at a landing site near Orange Walk at the toll bridge, where you can use the restroom before boarding a comfortable, canopy-covered motorboat. Here, you’ll meet the captain who will guide your river and Lamanai tour. As your river adventure begins, keep an eye out for tropical water birds, crocodiles, howler monkeys, and manatees. You’ll visit the Mayan site of Lamanai, enjoy a served lunch, and then take a guided tour of the site. Afterward, you’ll return by boat to the landing area to catch your bus back to Belize City.

New River - A highlight of this tour is the boat ride to the Lamanai Mayan site. Along the way, you’ll encounter a variety of tropical birds, crocodiles, green iguanas, manatees, howler monkeys, and even a Mennonite community. Your knowledgeable tour guide will provide fascinating information about the flora and fauna of northern Belize.

What's Included
  • Air-conditioned vehicle
  • Lunch
  • Food and drinks
  • Bottled water
  • Parking Fees
What's Not Included
  • Alcoholic Beverages
Additional Information

This Lamanai tour has become one of the most popular Mayan sites to visit as our guests get to experience a tour of the New River in Northern Belize as they make their way to the site. This river tour offers a great opportunity for our visitors to view some of the country’s tropical birds and wildlife such as howler monkeys, crocodiles turtles, and manatees. At the the site upon arrival, you will be served lunch which is a homemade Belizean meal. Bottle water and fruit juices will also be available. Your tour guide will then take you through this amazing ancient Mayan city of Lamanai. The highlight of this tour is visiting the mask temple where you get to see the largest mask of an Olmec person in this region. You will also visit the high temple which allows you to overlook the new river lagoon. Your tour of this ancient city culminates at the Jaquar temple. After a short stop at the shopping area, you will be brought back to the landing area by boat for your transfer to Belize City

  • Infant seats unavailable
  • No public transportation nearby
  • Not recommended for people with back problems
  • Not recommended for people with heart conditions
  • Not stroller accessible
  • Not suitable for pets
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • We will pick you up from any hotel, water taxi terminal or the Municipal Airstrip within Belize City
Location
Orange Walk
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Anthony_o
Jul 30, 2024
Best decision ever - Booking Albert was one of the best decisions of our holiday. Excursions at our hotel were overpriced and lacklustre but Albert was the complete opposite: professional, friendly, informative and genuinely passionate. We learnt so much about Belize, its people, culture and places. Communication was brilliant, he was on time and we booked him for a second day that was also great!
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S4720xaleem
Oct 27, 2023
Wonderful Day At Lamanai - When I contacted Albert about some tours, he set us up for this one. He was prompt when he picked us up, shared information when as we drove north from our hotel and was with us the whole way. He arranged for us to join a regular river tour which stopped to point out wild life, give a history of the area and of Lamanai. Once we got there, we had a wonderful tour of the ruins and there was plenty of water to stay hydrated. A great lunch was provided with some free time before heading back. It was a full day tour and totally worth it.
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T3358oserich
Apr 20, 2022
Lamanai Trip with Dean - Albert and Dean were exceptional to work with in planning our trip. Albert answered my many questions and really went out of his way to make sure that we got a great tour and were back at the airport in time for our flight to Ambergris Caye. They picked us up right on time and Dean took us out for the tour. they even help out bags for us and dropped us off at the airport for our flight. The company they partnered with for the river and site tour were awesome as well. A very well run and friendly group to work with and I would highly recommend them.
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Reedmangreg
Dec 3, 2021
Trip with Albert to Lamanai - It took me a while to post this 2nd review as sadly TripAdvisor didn't allow me to do it for the 3 months after I posted my previous one here called Trip with Albert to Xunantunich - needless to say we took 2 trips during same week with A Plus Adventures and despite 6 months going by I believe people like Albert need these reviews and deserve to be known as they are the great people who share their country, history and culture with people like me, like you, like us. Similarly to our other trip with A Plus Adventures, Albert picked us up from our resort and we did about 45-minute (from Belize City) drive in his SUV where then he "transferred" us over to another nice gentleman who was our both, the boat captain, and the tour guide through the New River tour and the magnificent Lamanai - I have reviewed Lamanai separately if you are interested, here I will just say a dream come true it was, enjoyed it way more than Chichen Itza and despite being completely different I would compare it joy wise close to visiting Matchu Picchu - Belize is an extremely underrated place when it comes to Mayan ruins and may be that's the beauty of it, fewer people know about it leaving all of these amazing places virgin and greatly untouched! The tour itself includes thus the round trip drive, the round trip boat ride, the entrance fees to the Lamanai park and of course the tour guide is included in that - an excellent value. You can get to Lamanai just by the car but we thought that the combo of boat ride and the walking tour were a truly great combination. Take some sunscreen with you, and some water as while it's nice and breezy on the boat (sunny though!) it's very humid and hot within the forest/Lamanai sites. Lastly, an excellent lunch was included in the tour - very tasty home made food prepared by our tour guide's wife :) Highly recommend this company and this excellent tour - it's a full day full package, you won't regret it!
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Loren928
May 9, 2021
Lamanai Mayan Ruins and Cultural Tour - Everyone should travel to Belize. The tourism industry is back! We came to Belize for a scuba diving trip and went on several land excursions too. Yesterday we had the best tour of Lamanai (the Mayan ruins in northwest Belize). At 8am, Albert Alvarez (from “A Plus Adventures Belize”) picked us up from the Radisson in Belize City and we drove about an hour to pick up Amir Reyes (local tour guide for Lamanai) from Tower Hill Village). From there we drove through the Mennonite community and farmland. Albert and Amir taught us about the variety of cultures found in Belize. Then we passed the small village of Indian Church (population of 236 people). When we arrived in Lamanai, we had the whole place almost to ourselves. Amir gave an excellent cultural and historical tour as we walked through Lamanai. It was great taking pictures of all the Mayan ruins without any other tourists getting in our pictures. Really an amazing experience. After that, we had a delicious lunch at Las Orquideas Restaurant in Indian Church. And on the way back to the hotel we made a quick detour to see trucks filled with sugarcane pulling into the sugar processing plant. Albert and Amir were both very friendly, knowledgeable and enthusiastic about sharing their knowledge of Belize with us. Overall, it was a great tour and a great day. Everyone should come visit Belize and book a tour through A Plus Adventures. We’ll be returning soon.
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