Getting to Belize isn’t necessarily easy. It’s certainly worth it. After flying from Spokane, my wife, Rowena, and I spent the night in Dallas to avoid a nine-hour airport layover. From there, it was ...

BELIZE CITY – A construction company has essentially destroyed one of Belize’s largest Mayan pyramids with backhoes and bulldozers to extract crushed rock for a road-building project, authorities ...

Wondering what to pack for Belize? This packing list covers must-haves for beach time, jungle tours, humidity, bugs, and ...

It’s not as famous as Mexico’s Chichen Itza. It’s not as tall as Guatemala’s Tikal. But here in western Belize, the Xunantunich Mayan ruins will make your jaw drop. And maybe your palms sweat.

Smoke curled around my body as Maria Garcia, a Yucatec Maya healer, walked around me in circles, swinging a pail of incense. I closed my eyes and inhaled the spicy fragrance — copal resin mixed with ...

SAN IGNACIO, Belize — The same turquoise ­waters that lure tourists to Caribbean destinations slosh around Belize’s island chain. But tiny Belize has a major advantage in reeling in the holiday makers ...

It’s not as famous as Mexico’s Chichen Itza. It’s not as tall as Guatemala’s Tikal. But here in western Belize, the Xunantunich Mayan ruins will make your jaw drop. And maybe your palms sweat.

An image of the damaged site (via edition.channel5belize.com), and some maps illustrating the location of the site (via Wikipedia) The shocking destruction of a Mayan archeological site that dates ...

There are tens of thousands of Mayan descendants in Belize. They’re fighting for the survival of their traditions. Maria Garcia, for example, preserves Mayan knowledge of medicinal plants. But the ...

GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — The leaders of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize announced on Friday that they were creating a tri-national nature reserve to protect the Mayan rain forest following a meeting during ...

With nearly 40% of its lands under protection, Belize already contributes significantly to the IUCN’s post-2020 biodiversity framework of preserving 30% of the planet by 2030. Now conservationists ...