Deep in the Cayo District´s Chiquibul Forest Reserve, Belize’s largest and most impressive Mayan site boasts towering temples (the main pyramid, Caana, is still Belize’s tallest man-made structure) and intricate stone carvings. The jungle setting and relative isolation give it a powerful, almost mystical atmosphere. The nearest town, a 2½-hour drive away, is San Ignacio (see more below), reachable via short flight from Belize City and Placencia.

It´s one of some 30 remnants packed into this tiny country of the great Mesoamerican civilization that spread here between 1500 BCE and 300 CE and flourished until about 1200.

Read more in my post The Best of Belize.

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