Lamanai Travel Guide

 toonsarah Says:  There are eight free activities in total, and you can do two for each night of your stay, so a four night stay would allow you to do all of them. They are scheduled to run every day – two at dawn, two in the morning, two late afternoon and two in the evening. As well as... 

 toonsarah Says:  This activity is another of those included in your stay at Lamanai Outpost. It takes place every morning, and when we signed up we were asked whether we would like to have lunch in the village or back at the lodge after our walk. We decided on the village, which proved to be... 

 toonsarah Says:  On our last evening at Lamanai we did the other of our paid-for activities, the Crocodile Encounter. This started after dinner, at 8.00 PM, so we made our way down to the dock where we met up with Raul and another guide, and one other couple. We were asked to wear small... 

 toonsarah Says:  Although there are plenty of free activities on offer at Lamanai (certainly enough to have kept us occupied for the three days that we were there), some of the additional paid-for options sounded too interesting for us to ignore. The first of these that we opted for was the... 

 toonsarah Says:  This is one of two free evening activities available as part of your package at Lamanai (the other is the Night Walk which unfortunately we didn’t manage to make time to do), and like the others is highly recommended.We set out after dinner one evening in one of the lodge’s... 

 toonsarah Says:  This is one of the “standard” activities included in your all-inclusive package, and was the first that we did, signing up for a trip just an hour or so after our arrival at the lodge. The activities at the lodge aren’t exclusive so you could find yourself sharing with... 

 toonsarah Says:  Older websites may show images of a small and rather jumbled museum, but a newer one has been constructed in recent years and now shows off the archaeological finds from the site to good advantage. These include the original Stela 9, various vessels, a great little display... 

 toonsarah Says:  The southernmost of the excavated temples is the Jaguar Temple. It takes its name from the sculptures on the facade which are said to represent jaguars, an animal of great significance to the Maya. This temple was built in three phases, from 500 to 1200 AD. A significant... 

 toonsarah Says:  This temple lies quite near the High Temple and is the only one we were told we may not climb. It takes its name from the stela, Stela 9, which was discovered, face-down and buried in soil, on its front lower stairs (the only stela to have been found at Lamanai). This stela... 

 toonsarah Says:  The Mask Temple is at the northern end of the complex and is an excellent example of the Lamanai “habit” of building in layers, each on top of an earlier structure. In the case of the Mask Temple, five construction phases have been identified, lasting from 100 BC to 900 AD.... 

 toonsarah Says:  Meals here are good Belizean / international food, served in the open air with spectacular views over the lagoon, but they aren’t fancy and you won’t be offered an elaborate menu. Instead a set menu is posted on the previous evening, and unless you alert staff to any... 

 ally923 Says:   Laman is the only place in Belize I got bitten, but it was bad! 

 toonsarah Says:  Two 16th century churches were built at Lamanai during the Spanish conquest of this region. The first was built around 1540, only to be burned to the ground during a Maya revolt. Raul told us that the Spanish had made the mistake of leaving a local Maya man in charge,...