And yet, as recently as October, news emerged that a sizable Mayan metropolis ... is now the biggest urban area in the country, Belize City. Caracol is a stop on the 13-day Belize Reef ...

Not only is the Central American country of Belize English-speaking, but it's also easy to enjoy both reef and rainforest along with some impressive Mayan ruins. Take in the 140ft-tall Mayan ...

Related: I traveled to a ‘Blue Zone’: Here’s how it changed my daily routines I recently had the incredible opportunity to visit Belize ... the ancient Maya city of Caracol lies hidden ...

A detail from a Maya Train system map shows the proximity of the ... Second, an addition through Belize into Guatemala to reach Tikal National Park, a site featuring extensive Mayan ruins. The ...

I was standing in Garcia’s jungle-like garden in San Antonio, a small Mayan village in the western district of Cayo, in Belize ... I wandered the ruins at Xunantunich, an important ...

I was standing in Garcia’s jungle-like garden in San Antonio, a small Mayan village in the western district of Cayo, in Belize. Bordering Guatemala, Cayo was in ancient times a center of Mayan ...

Archaeologists mapping the well-preserved Maya settlement of X’baatún found dozens ... Photos show a few of these stone ruins, partially overgrown by the rainforest. A map shows the layout of X’baatún ...

Archaeologists mapping the well-preserved Maya settlement of X ... Photos show a few of these stone ruins, partially overgrown by the rainforest. A map shows the layout of X’baatún’s ...

Hidden beneath the rainforest of southern Mexico sit the ruins of a massive ancient Maya settlement ... partially overgrown by the rainforest. A map shows the layout of X’baatún’s core ...