The impressive caves in Belize

Belize is a country that is known for its superb scenery and especially on the wonderful legacy of the Mayan culture, a civilization that swept through Central America, leaving us important and valuable archaeological treasures.

Within its precious relics are a series of caves and caverns located in the basement that are covered and, in some cases, by rivers that allow us to get into them through a fantastic canoe trip.

Although not all are open to the public within these wonderful caves that have unusual shapes and incredible streams, highlights the Cave of the Stone Sepulcher, or also known as Actun Tunichil Muknal in indigenous language.

If we have the opportunity to enter more on the inside, we might be impressed by the archaeological finds that there can be admired, such as images, pottery vessels and ceremonial tools, ships of more than 1000 years old and even skeletal remains of what could have been human sacrifices.

Possibly, according to historical data that are known, these curious formations hidden in the jungle accounted for the entrance to the Maya underworld, where the spirits of dead could not be bothered, and in other cases there will be ceremonies celebrating rituals that served to communicate with divinities.