Debbie got a good tip that Tanisha Tours is a good outfit to use for a tour of the Mayan ruins of Lamanai. If you head out from San Pedro, you get the pleasure of a fun zipping boat ride on the river through the mangroves. This was for sure more exciting than the ruins though the ruins were interesting. Your tour guide Daniel has been doing the tours for 20 years so he is quite experienced and has loads of knowledge on the wildlife of the area. He and his helper can amazingly spot a small bat or lizard amongst the mangrove as they wiz by in the boat. They are always willing to turn around and show the animals to the people. If you come from San Pedro, breakfast of banana nut bread and juice, lunch of local styled food, and water during the tour, and a rum punch or beer is provided. The only down side is that the trip to the ruins from San Pedro via boat is about 3 hours (including an unpleasantly bumpy 1 hour bus ride), but the fun boat ride makes it well worth it. The other option (not with Tanisha tours) is to fly with TropicAir and you will still get to do one portion of the boat ride but I think the portion you do if you go with Tanisha is more interesting (possible dolphin spottings when traveling through the sea and sharper turns when navigating through the mangroves).
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