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Cave Adventure: Explore Maya Caves and River
4.6
17 Ratings
Belize City
Embark on a thrilling adventure at Nohoch Che’en Park where you’ll go cave-tubing through mesmerizing formations, hear captivating Maya stories, and float along the Caves Branch River.
Embark on a thrilling adventure at Nohoch Che’en Park where you’ll go cave-tubing through mesmerizing formations, hear captivating Maya stories, and float along the Caves Branch River.
Duration:
2 hours, 45 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Nohoch Che’en Caves Branch Archaeological Reserve - With limited availability, secure your spot on this exclusive tour by booking online. Tours are exclusively for online reservations, so be sure to book early. The cave tubing adventure takes place at the archaeological site known as Nohoch Che’en. It’s an easy and enjoyable family activity led by…
- Nohoch Che’en Caves Branch Archaeological Reserve - With limited availability, secure your spot on this exclusive tour by booking online. Tours are exclusively for online reservations, so be sure to book early. The cave tubing adventure takes place at the archaeological site known as Nohoch Che’en. It’s an easy and enjoyable family activity led by an excellent guide. For those seeking more excitement, the Crystal Cave segment is optional. The park offers restaurants, ample parking, and modern restroom facilities. The guide provides helmets, lights, personal flotation devices, and tubes. Enjoy a 25-minute guided walk through the forest, where the guide will point out diverse plant life, wildlife, and share local customs and folklore. At the cave entrance, take a refreshing swim and capture plenty of photos. The guide will then lead the tube float, navigating the river and stopping to showcase cave formations. Enjoy a stop by the waterfall for a splash and more photos. After exiting the caves, the float continues for another twenty minutes, allowing you to relish the sounds of birds, the wind rustling through the trees, and the sunlight. The tour concludes at the parking lot.
What's Included
- Use of helmets, jackets, lights, tubes
- Guide service
- Convenient parking area with facilities, restrooms, showers, changing rooms, gift shops, restaurants
- Use of helmets, jackets, lights, tubes
- Guide service
- Convenient parking area with facilities, restrooms, showers, changing rooms, gift shops, restaurants
What's Not Included
- Gratuities
- Park entrance fee
- Gratuities
- Park entrance fee
Additional Information
Join a small group tour where there’s no rush or hurry, allowing you to see more and spend ample time taking photos, swimming, and exploring various formations. The guide acts as the “motor,” guiding you through the caves on a float.
Meet at the Park, where your guide will provide you with a helmet, tubes, personal life jackets, and headlamps. The guide…
Join a small group tour where there’s no rush or hurry, allowing you to see more and spend ample time taking photos, swimming, and exploring various formations. The guide acts as the “motor,” guiding you through the caves on a float.
Meet at the Park, where your guide will provide you with a helmet, tubes, personal life jackets, and headlamps. The guide will lead a walk through the forest, sharing insights about the forest, Maya mountains, wildlife, and local customs.
At the caves, enjoy a refreshing swim as the guides lead you through a series of caves, showcasing formations and sharing stories of the Maya world “Xibalba.” Near a waterfall inside the caves, continue downstream for another 20 minutes, enjoying the float on the Caves Branch River. The tour concludes at the parking area.
- Children minimum height 40 inches, must be accompanied by an adult
- reserve your tour for early in your vacation, should the park be closed due to flooding, you may reschedule or cancel and be refunded
Location
Nohoch Che'en Caves Branch Archaeological Reserve
Nohoc ch'en Parking lot
Directions: Drive to Mile 37 George Price Highway, proceed thru Franks Eddy Village on the pave road, continue for 6 miles on the pave road and arrive at the park barrier. pay the park admissions , Here you will see the V.i.V. booth, the V.i.V. guide will be there.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.6
(17 Ratings)
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77lesterm
Apr 28, 2025
Cave and jungle exploration - We had a great cave trip. Our guide had good information to share about the jungle and plant life, and expertly guided us through the cave and its many formations. We definitely recommend a cave trip with V.i.V..
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Lucie_s
Sep 25, 2024
Cave-Tubing Xibalba - Awesome tour, Abner was a very good guide and had lots of interesting facts about the maya culture and nature to share, our group was only 4 persons strong and it was cool to explore the caves in such a small group. We even could explore a bit by foot and jump into a cenote, which is part of the caves.
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Carolyn_k
Feb 18, 2024
Fantastic! - This was an amazing fun experience! So beautiful and interesting. Our guide, Tracy, was wonderful! She was informative and fun. Would definitely recommend.
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Ldpollio
Feb 15, 2024
Awesome Experience!!! - We loved our cave tubing experience!! Our guide Tracy was great! We took our 6 year old daughter and she loved it too! You get lots of time in the caves and we got to enjoy some extra time swimming! Would highly recommend this experience when visiting Belize!
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Dionne_s
Jan 3, 2024
Great family activity! - Family took a day trip cave tubing. Abner and Nady made the experience unforgettable! The caves were beautiful and the hike was lovely.
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Charles
Oct 24, 2023
Awesome Experience! - Excellent Guide very informative and helpful. The caves were visually stunning and a must see if you are traveling to Belize. Our guide gave us an adventurous and safe experience.
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Taylor_o
Oct 11, 2023
Cave Tubing - My boyfriend and I planned a last minute cave tubing excursion, and we are so glad we did. Cave tubing was one of our most fun activities we did in Belize. Our tour guide (Marco) was so outgoing, friendly and incredibly knowledgeable on not only the caves, but the surrounding wildlife as well. Marco is very passionate about his job, which made our experience so enjoyable.
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Eileen_c
Jul 29, 2023
Very Cool - Very cool experience! We all enjoyed it very much as a family. Even the hike through the jungle was memorable Thank you
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Holly
Jun 28, 2023
Great Very Do-Able Relaxing Adventure - If you have a rental car, this is the way to go!! We saved about $30 per head. We went on a Monday at 10:00 and avoided all the cruise ship crowds and had huge stretches of water all to ourselves. Our guy was a few minutes late picking up another couple from a hotel, but no biggie - we're on "island time". Abner from VIV was our guide and he was absolutely wonderful. The "hike" was maybe 30 minutes and hot (bring water bottle), but not hard, then the tubing part was absolutely delightful. They had tubes waiting for us and we only carried them a short distance at the very end. I'm upper 40s, not necessarily in shape and I was fine. Our teens LOVED it. Our family has done a ton of crazy stuff around the world and this was top of list. A different company said the water in the caves was too low and tried to get us to go on a different tour, but VIV had no issue at all, so make another call if you're being told no.
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Excursion332207
Jul 8, 2023
Poor communication and lack of transparency - The tubing experience itself was standard- the guide provided a few random tid bits about leaves, etc as we walked in to the sites with the tubes at the base of the cave.
What was problematic to me was communication and honesty. We booked a 10am tour as we had to be in the city at a certain time. The evening before, they contacted us asking if we could change it to a 11am. We said no, because we couldn’t. We did not hear from them again. The next morning it was raining so we confirmed that the tour was still happening and they said yes, at 10 as planned. We arrived at 930, as per instructions to arrive before start time. When they hadn’t arrived by 10 we messaged them. They said there were car problems. This exchange happened a few times until they pulled up at just before 10:30, which is also when a second group showed up. We spoke to that group, and viv tours had booked them for 12 but the night before asked if they could come at 11, then 10. The other travellers apologized that they couldn’t make it for 10.
In short, viv tours last minute changed the time of two group tours, trying to make it more convenient for the tour company, and also lied about car troubles when it was just that they were starting later as they intended.
I am not impressed and based on this would not use their company again.
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