AmbergrisCaye.com Casamayaresort accomodation services activities adventure medecine contact rates Casamayaresort Welcome to Casa Maya Eco Resort! Casa Maya Resort in Belize is a jungle and eco resort featuring quality comfortable accommodations at reasonable prices, including spacious thatched cabanas with private baths and hot showers, comfortable guesthouse for budget travelers, friendly bar, excellent dining room, activities pavilion, lecture areas, tours, adventures and other convenient amenities for great vacation. The hub of activities at Casa Maya is the large central pavilion, which contains the dining room, lounge, and game and lecture areas. Our Jungle Bar is in its own building adjoining the pavilion. Finally we got our new swimming pool! New: Badminton, Beachball, Volleyball and we have 6 new bikes! We now got a partner for beach vacation in Belize: The Salamander Hideaway 11 Miles North of San Pedro. Please feel free to book a “surf & turf”combination; jungle, adventure and beach vacation! See on our rate sheet. To view this site in German please click here. Casa Maya has a series of nature trails on the resort grounds offering interesting and educational walks. Our Orchid Trail features hundreds of orchids, while the Medicine Trail introduces you to many of the herbal plants so effective in traditional Maya medicine remedies. Birdwatching observation points offer convenience to see some of the nearly 300 varieties of birds that live or migrate here. Casa Maya is located near San Ignacio in the Cayo District of Belize, as may be seen in the Map of Belize. NEW! Toll free phone number for you 1-877 833 0679 Casa Maya specializes in high adventure interactive rainforest jungle experiences. Our tours and treks are individually personalized for small groups staying at the resort, tutored by highly qualified professional guides. The adventurous types can trek lowland and upland jungles, the Maya Mountains, remote wilderness areas and wild rivers with rare and endangered birds, animals and plants. Interesting places like the Belize Zoo, and the Jaguar and Howler Monkey preserves are easily accessible to everyone. You can explore hundreds of caves and sink holes, many world class, or go on canoe and kayak treks to remote whitewater rivers, and we have a waterfall so high you have to look at it in installments. An unbelievable variety of birds, butterflies, orchids, exotic flowers and wondrous animals abound in Belize's exciting world of jungle wonders. All this is safely available at Casa Maya in comfortable convenience with competent professional guides and friendly courteous staff to insure that you will have the experience of a lifetime. New in our program: Accomodation with a Belizean family near the Guatemalan border. Attention : This is no touristic program - this is more a cultural exchange. You can learn a lot of these families as well as the families like to learn from you. There is no privacy but it’s the best way to get to know Belizeans and it’s a real adventure. Please contact us for more information! NEW! Toll free number for you! Just give us a call at: 1-877 833 0679 or give us a call and we’ll call back! Royce, thanks very much for your work on this beautiful site. Our guests love your special way of information – it’s made with love and passion, heart and soul and exactly the way how we wanna do our job for our guests. :-) Casamayaresort accomodation services activities adventure medecine contact rates accomodation Thatching has the wonderful ability to cool by a natural refrigerating process. The thatch leaves absorb water when it rains, and the moisture slowly evaporates, lowering the temperature by evaporative cooling. The humidity on the back slope of the Maya Mountains, where we are located, is much less than on the coast, and we are also at a higher elevation, so we don’t use, or even need, fans or air conditioning, as our weather is pleasant and comfortable in the evenings. CasaMaya is a true jungle lodge, tucked away in a quiet private jungle valley, constructed of jungle materials. The cabanas and buildings are thatched with bay leaf palm and the framework material is an exotic hardwood called milady. All of our building materials were harvested in a sustainable way from the local jungle and constructed by local Maya craftsmen, in the same manner as their ancestors. There are ancient Maya ruins and caves on the resort property. Our beds had mosquito netting, but it was mostly for psychological support, as we have very few bugs and virtually no mosquitoes, except after prolonged periods of rain, which is rare. Some time ago we screened all our cabanas. The local caves are homes to millions of bats, which sweep our skies every evening, gathering what mosquitoes and flying insects escaped the night before. The chachalakas, parrots, chickens, brown jays and other birds dine on the bugs, competing with the lizards and frogs, while armadillos and opossum harvest the worms and grubs. It is a great natural balancing system of the upland rainforest jungle and our guests reap the benefits. Although we have a few deer, tayra (bush dog), fox, gibnut and other small animals in the jungle around the resort, you will have to travel into more remote areas to see the large cats, crocodiles, tapir and other rare tropical animals. While at the resort, you will sleep in the soothing peace of pleasant jungle sounds, and no background noise, 60 cycle hum, horns, sirens, overhead jets screaming, diesel trucks roaring or trains pounding the earth. It is just a nice peaceful tranquility in a lovely cabana with an enchanting glorious world unfolding each morning from your window. Our thatched cabanas are very spacious with tables, chairs and two double beds. Each cabana has its own private bathroom with a toilet, washbasin and hot water shower. The high thatch roof keeps the air cool during the day and adds to sleeping comfort at night. Our cabanas are located on the hillside above the pavilion offering a lovely view of the resort and the Maya Mountains. Each has a full veranda on all four sides where guests can relax, or lounge in a hammock waiting for toucans or a flock of parrots to fly by. GUESTHOUSE with family rooms A comfortable guesthouse is serenely tucked away in the trees below the pavilion. It is organized into four rooms with two beds (3 upon request) in each (newly renovated). There are separate bathrooms for men and women with hot showers. The budget traveler will find these accommodations attractively priced at $35.00 per room per night (plus local tax; 3rd person plus 5 US$ and 4th person plus 5US$). Special group rates are available. The guesthouse is available for student, youth adventure and budget travel groups as well as individual travelers and families. Casamayaresort accomodation services activities adventure medecine contact rates services Casa Maya has an excellent dining room, in fact we think it is one of the best in Belize. Our kitchen offers Belizean foods with a Continental flare, serving fresh seafood, stuffed chicken breasts, rolled pork tenderloin, filet mignon, tasty vegetarian dishes, etc. We feature wholesome unadulterated foods, with no additives, chemicals or other modern-day food enhancements. Wherever possible, all foods used are organically raised either at the resort or in the local area. We have our own chickens to lay real eggs, not the chemically constituted ones like those from the mass producers. Meals are designed to be a culinary delight with special sauces and fresh herbs grown in our gardens. Fruits and vegetables are picked when they are ready and ripe (instead of hard and green so they ship better). Meats are grown without steroids, enzymes and growth enhancing chemicals. Our guests will find that the food tastes delightfully different too Our bar is located next to the dining room, offering comfortable relaxation with full bar service. Our Orchid Trail has around a thousand orchid plants with over 100 varieties. These include most of the many varieties of orchids and bromeliads found in Belize, grow in the hills and river valleys of the Cayo District. Unfortunately it has not been maintained before we bought Casa Maya, but we’re on the way to re-create the orchid trail. A fascinating Medicine Trail winds through Casa Maya introducing guests to the captivating world of rainforest healing herbs and medicines. Special seminars and programs are arranged for groups who wish to learn the use of jungle medicine from Mayan Healers. The medicine trail has not been maintained either. We’re actually recreating. All those Maya healing plants are still on the property. In the meantime we’ll visit a nearby medicine trail if you’re interested. Casamayaresort accomodation services activities adventure medecine contact rates activities Adventure Trips Casa Maya offers an intriguing variety of Day Adventure Trips which are interesting for anyone who would like to see the natural beauty sites in the Maya Mountains, and Belize rivers, caves and jungles. High Adventure Treks You can explore the sacred magical caves with their haunting Maya sacrificial artifacts, or take a jungle canoe trip to count crocodiles, iguanas, giant storks, howler monkeys and slithering jungle creatures. Overnight campouts are an exciting opportunity to experience the jungle at night. Environmental Tours Environmental educational adventure trips take you into deep wilderness areas to see lowland and upland jungles, remote rivers, mysterious caves, rare rainforest environments, and the cloud forests of the Maya Mountains. Jungle Survival Courses A week long course is designed to develop self reliance through critical decision making, teach survival techniques that may be useful in all aspects of one's life, demonstrate the delicate and fragile balance of our tropical eco systems, and illustrate the beauty of the fauna and flora of the unique Belize tropical rainforest environments. Archaeology Tikal, Caracol, El Pilar and Xunantunich, amongst the most significant Mayan ruins in Central America, are within easy adventure distance of Casa Maya. Many visitors want to see all of the Mayan ruins, truly an impossible task as there are hundreds of them. However, we do trips to many unknown and seldom visited sites. Birdwatching Belize is a birdwatchers paradise. Our guests have counted well over 200 species of birds while staying at Casa Maya, including rare and endangered Scarlet Macaw, Ocellated Turkey, Keel - billed Toucans, Collared Aracuri, Jabirui Stork, Whistling Duck, and Blue Crowned Motmot, to name a few. Traditional Maya Medicine Seminars Week long courses in Traditional Maya Medicine are organized for groups. Maya Healers instruct on identification of useful herbs, preparation of herbal remedies, and philosophy of Maya healing. Guests are transported in comfortable vans for field trips and supervised by well - known healers. Casa Maya is a fully licensed Belize Tour Operator License #092-031 The Casa Maya Adventure Program is focused on enjoyment and education while protecting the wonders of the fascinating tropical environments of Belize. Our adventure trips and treks will show you wonders and introduce you to adventures that can be found no place else on earth. We sincerely ask that you leave everything as you find it. For example, our Orchid Trail has nearly a thousand orchid plants for you to see as you stroll through the jungle, but if each visitor takes one, how long will it be before they become rare? Every pottery shard, arrowhead and artifact that leaves in someone’s pocket is valuable knowledge lost. Break off a chunk of lovely cave dripstone and you destroy a few thousand years of nature's work. There are deer, agouti, ocelot, jaguar, tapir, peccary, warrie, gibnut, crocodiles, and an endless variety of jungle animals to see, but if they are hunted and killed, the National Zoo will become the only major adventure trip in Belize. Our guides will take you to mysterious and hidden places very few people ever see, but we ask you to help us protect these unique sites by not divulging their locations to others and by leaving everything as it was when you arrived, thus your children and future generations will be able to enjoy them as much as you did. Belize is special, but very fragile. There are a number of interesting environmental activities available on the grounds of the resort, such as nature walks, bird watching, the Orchid Trail, and the Medicine Trail. Bird watching areas have been prepared for those interested in the great variety of our flying creatures. Our Orchid Trail has around a thousand orchid plants with over 100 varieties. These include most of the many varieties of orchids and bromeliads found in Belize, grow in the hills and river valleys of the Cayo District (actually not available) A fascinating Medicine Trail winds through Casa Maya introducing guests to the captivating world of rainforest healing herbs and medicines. Special seminars and programs are arranged for groups who wish to learn the use of jungle medicine from Mayan Healers. (actually not fully implemented). Casa Maya adventure programs are individually designed to suit the desires and needs of our guests. Most visitors to Belize are surprised at how much there is to do in this small tropical paradise, especially in our inland jungles and mountains. Day Adventure Trips - to give you a fun-filled introduction to our fascinating caves, rivers, archaeology ruins and natural wonders. These are private trips, which leave from the resort in the morning and can be selected on a day-by-day basis. Interested in our adventure packages? Then please click the link below adventure First time in Belize? Then you might want to read our first trip information Monkey preserves are easily accessible to everyone. You can explore hundreds of caves and sink holes, many world class, or go on canoe and kayak treks to remote whitewater rivers, and we have a waterfall so high you have to look at it in installments. An unbelievable variety of birds, butterflies, orchids, exotic flowers and wondrous animals abound in Belize's exciting world of jungle wonders. All this is safely available at Casa Maya in comfortable convenience with competent professional guides and friendly courteous staff to insure that you will have the experience of a lifetime. Some guests may wish to "interact" in a comfortable hammock with a cold drink as they wait for the next flock of yellow-headed green parrots to fly by, while others will want to go caving or canoeing in the Class IV rapids in a whitewater trip. Less vigorous experiences are plentiful with bird watching, orchid hunting (there are over 300 varieties in Belize) or exploring the fascinating wonders of jungle medicine. Your program will be designed to meet your individual desires. Our adventure activities are organized under the following interest areas Casamayaresort accomodation services activities adventure medecine contact rates adventure Overnight Adventure Tours Overnight Adventure Tours - for those seeking a really in-depth experience in our rainforests and jungles. These overnight tours are designed to take you on truly interactive wilderness adventures deeper into the remote jungle areas of Belize. High Adventure Treks High Adventure Treks - for the true adventurer seeking thrills and excitement doing rare and unusual things in rare and unusual places. These multi-day treks take you into the deepest wilderness areas where humans rarely venture. Raspacula Wild River Trek Raspacula Wilderness Trek - an opportunity to explore and camput in a remote upland jungle riverine environment and see many rare and endangered animals and birds. Few have ventured here. Chiquibul Wilderness Trek Chiquibul Wilderness Trek - for the truly adventurous type exploring upland jungle plateau country filled with rare animals, birds and fascinating karst geologic features Adventure packages Our guests may simply rent a cabana and select whatever adventure programs they are interested in after arrival. Or they may choose one of our all inclusive Adventure Packages, which have been prepared to help you with planning and budgeting your trip. Casa Maya Adventures are designed to be all-inclusive, at a fixed price, and include round trip transportation between the airport and Casa Maya, comfortable cabana with private bath, all meals eaten at the resort, and a full selection of Trips, Tours, and Treks. Most of your local transportation needs are also supplied. THREE TYPES OF ADVENTURE PACKAGES ADVENTURE TRIPS - You can make your own selection of any of the interesting fun-filled day trips we offer. There is a modest additional charge for the extended day trips to Tikal ($35), Caracol ($20) and Caves Branch Tubing ($25) ADVENTURE TOURS - You can make your own selection of any of the Adventure Tours or Trips we offer. Adventure Tours are often overnight excursions into the remoter areas of our jungles ADVENTURE TREKS - These excursions can be booked individually or as a package to include round trip airport transportation, cabana, food and a fascinating selection of high adventure treks to wild and unusual places All adventure packages are priced for couples and singles. Please contact us for family or group price quotes. ADVENTURE TRIP PACKAGES (Each trip includes a guide and lunch is provided on full day trips) (All trips include a guide and transportation) (All FULL DAY trips includes a guide, lunch and transportation) Trip Selection Cahal Pech Ruins - Half day - $35 per person Xunantunich Ruins - Half day - $35 per person Mopan River Tubing - Half day - $50 per person Che Chem Ha cave - Half day - $80 per person Macal River Canoeing - All Day - $120 per person Mopan River Whitewater Canoeing - All Day - $120 per person Mountain Pine Ridge + Caracol Ruins - All Day - $130 per person (minimum 4 persons and weather permitting) Aguacate Lagoon - All day - $75 per person possible fishing Big Rock Waterfall - All day - $100 per person Horseback Jungle Ride - $45 per hour per person minimum 2 persons per trip Extended Day Trip Selection (Includes lunch, guide and transportation) Tikal - $150 per person (does not include departure fee at border crossing) Caracol - $130 per person * Additional stop - Rio On Pools and 1,000 Foot Waterfalls - $30 extra Actun Tunichil Muknal - $150 per person (not easily available) Jaguar Paw Cave Tubing - $125 per person (minimum 2 persons) Mopan River Canoeing (Upper - 3.5 hours) - $80 per person Mopan River Canoeing (Lower - 6 hours) - $100 per person 4-Day Adventure Trip $1300 for couple sharing or $1075 for single in large cabana with transportation, complimentary welcome drink, all meals at the resort and daily activities, for 4 days and 3 nights, plus two trips of your choice from the Trip Selection. An example: · Day 1 Pickup at airport - arrive at Casa Maya · Day 2 Big Rock Waterfall - All Day · Day 3 Xunantunich + Mopan River Tubing · Day 4 Transport to Belize City 5-Day Adventure Trip $1625 for couple sharing or $1200 for single in large cabana with transportation, complimentary welcome drink, all meals at the resort and daily activities, for 5 days and 4 nights plus an Extended Day Trip and two trips of your choice from the Trip Selection. Example: - Day 1 Pickup at airport - arrive at Casa Maya · Day 2 Barton Creek Cave Tour & Rock Waterfall · Day 3 Tikal Trip · Day 4 Aguacate Lagoon Trip · Day 5 Birdwatching- Belize Zoo - Transportation to Belize City 6-Day Adventure Trip $1875 for couple sharing or $1475 for single in large cabana with transportation, complimentary welcome drink, all meals at the resort and daily activities, for 6 days and 5 nights plus an Extended Day Trip and three trips of your choice from the Trip Selection: (An example) · Day 1 Pickup at airport - arrive at Casa Maya · Day 2 Macal Canoe Trip · Day 3 Barton Creek Cave + Big Rock Waterfall · Day 4 Cave Branch Tubing Trip · Day 5 El Pilar Archaeology Trip · Day 6 Birdwatching- Belize Zoo - Transport to Belize City 7-Day Adventure Trip $2025 for couple sharing or $1650 for single in large cabana with transportation, complimentary welcome drink, all meals at the resort and daily activities, for 7 days and 6 nights plus an Extended Day Trip and four trips of your choice from the Trip Selection: (An example) · Day 1 Pickup at airport - arrive at Casa Maya · Day 2 Barton Creek Cave & Big Rock Waterfall · Day 3 Caracol Trip · Day 4 Macal River Canoe Trip · Day 5 Horseback Jungle Ride · Day 6 Xunantunich and Mopan Tubing Trip · Day 7 Belize Zoo - Transport to Belize City ADVENTURE TOUR PACKAGES SELECTION OF OVERNIGHT TOURS Upland Wild River Canoe Tour Lowland Jungle River Canoe Tour Vaca Plateau Tour Chiquibul Environmental Tour Las Cuevas Family Nature Tour Aguacate Lagoon Family Tour 5-Day Adventure TOUR Package $1600 for couple sharing or $1150 for single in large cabana with transportation, complimentary welcome drink, all meals at the resort and daily activities, for 5 days and 4 nights, plus your selection of any Tours or Trips. 6-Day Tour Package $1900 for couple sharing or $1450 for single in large cabana with transportation, complimentary welcome drink, all meals at the resort and daily activities, for 6 days and 5 nights, plus your selection of any Tours or Trips. 7-Day Tour Package $2175 for couple sharing or $1750 single in large cabana with transportation, complimentary welcome drink, all meals at the resort and daily activities, for 7 days and 6 nights, plus your choice of any Tours or Trip. · Day 1 Pickup at airport - arrive at Casa Maya · Day 2 Tikal · Day 3 Mini Jungle Survival Tour · Day 4 Mini Jungle Survival Tour · Day 5 Upland Wild River Canoe Tour · Day 6 Upland Wild River Canoe Tour · Day 7 Birdwatching-Belize Zoo - Transport to Belize City 5-Day Jungle Environments Package $1650 for couple sharing or $1200 for single in large cabana with transportation, complimentary welcome drink, all meals at the resort and daily activities, for 5 days and 4 nights, including: · Day 1 Pickup at airport - arrive at Casa Maya · Day 2 River Environment - Macal River Canoe Trip · Day 3 Cave Environment - Barton Creek Cave + Las Cuevas Cave. Overnight at Las Cuevas. · Day 4 Upland Jungle Environment - Chiquibul Wilderness · Day 5 Lowland Jungle River Environment - Caves Branch · Day 6 Belize Zoo - Transport to Belize City Please add local tax to all rates. Casamayaresort accomodation services activities adventure medecine contact rates medecine The work of the great Maya traditional healer, Don Elijio Panti, who recently died at 105 years old, helped make the world aware of the wonders of Maya traditional bush medicine, an effective natural method of healing, where a trained healer uses natural herbs and remedies to help the body heal itself, and return to natural balance. It is easy to get confused with what appears to be a wide selection of natural cures, with labels like jungle medicine, rainforest remedies, herbal healing, bush medicine and others, but basically most refer to the same system of healing, perfected through many centuries of practice in Maya world of Central America. Belize is the very heart of the Maya healers world Maya traditional medicine is actually a very sophisticated medical practice. Maya traditional healers study throughout their life working to be more effective in bringing the total human into harmony with body, environment and spirit. Maya healing shuns the technology and chemicals, the detached involvement of so-called "Western Medicine," where lab tests and computers diagnose the ill, chemicals are prescribed ("take two pills a day and make another appointment if the pain doesn't stop"), and the doctor slips out the back door to go golfing having no knowledge of any of his patients other than the name of their insurance company. Maya traditional healing is involved healing, with a full awareness that the body, mind, emotions, environment and spirit are interconnected, all of which must be considered for an effective cure. It is healing with a heart. A good bush doctor will always take time to learn about his patient as a person, knowing that a good remedy must be in harmony with one's lifestyle Modern western medicine has made great strides in devising chemicals and drugs to bring cures and relief, and in recent years the pharmaceutical companies have launched extensive campaigns to identify the "active ingredients" of the jungle herbal cures used by our bush doctors. Experience has shown, however, that such synthesized active ingredients are not always effective when isolated from the Maya healers consortium of ingredients Belize, home to many highly qualified Maya healers, many of whom are descendents or students of Don Elijio Panti, is a treasure trove of healing herbs, with literally thousands of useful plants growing in the wild. Surrounded by this wonderful pharmacopoeia, ancient healers experimented and developed effective natural healing methods that were refined through the centuries. Traditional healing has not only survived the ridicule of modern western medicine, it is now experiencing a renaissance and new respectability, as the amazing effectiveness of herbal cures is becoming better known Belize is the heart of Maya Traditional Healing. At Casa Maya, we organize lectures, classes, seminars and workshops for individuals or groups. We have our own Medicinal Trail on the resort grounds, with hundreds of medicinal plants in their natural surrounding (actually re-organizing the medicine trail). Our programs are guided by well-known healers, and our facilities include lecture areas, full facilities for the preparation of herbal remedies, and comfortable vans for field trips. Our workshops include lectures by Maya healers, identification of medicinal plants, collection, preparation and use of remedies. Anyone interested in learning more about the fascinating world of Maya natural healing, should contact us for arrangements Casamayaresort accomodation services activities adventure medecine contact rates contact Please send us an email to: info@casamayaresort.com Casa Maya Eco Resort Mile 68½ Western Highway San Ignacio, Cayo District Belize, Central America Phone: 501-820-4020 Fax **501-820-4020 NEW toll free phone number available NOW please dial 1-877 833 0679 Casamayaresort accomodation services activities adventure medecine contact rates rates Our rates for the season 2005/2006 are: - US$110 per cabana for single occupancy - US$120 per cabana for double occupancy - additional $35 for each extra person A double room in our new renovated family rooms is 35 US$ per room for up to 2 persons, 40 US$ for 3 and 45 US$ for 4 persons Full meal plan is 40 US$ per day per guest, breakfast and dinner are 26 US$ Please add local tax to all rates. Gratuities are not included and are appreciated. Packages 4 nights 5 nights 6 nights 7 nights rates for adventure packages please see adventure double occupancy 540.00 US$ 650.00 US$ 750.00 US$ 850.00 US$ single occupancy 820.00 US$ 960.00 US$ 1095.00 US$ 1250.00 US$ All packages include transportation from and to Belize City International Airport, accomodation in one of our beautiful cabanas, full meal plan, welcome drink, all non alcoholic drinks and taxes. Packages ‘surf&turf’ together with the Salamander Hideaway Resort 4 nights 5 nights 6 nights 7 nights double occupancy 695.00 US$ 795.00 US$ 895.00 US$ 995.00 US$ single occupancy 1195.00 US$ 1335.00 US$ 1475.00 US$ 1825.00 US$ These packages include transportation to and from Belize City International Airport to Casa Maya Resort, return flight from and to Belize City to San Pedro, accomodation in one of the beautiful cabanas of Casa Maya Resort and Salamander Hideaway Resort, full meal plan in both resorts, a welcome cocktail in both resorts, a half day excursion to Xunantunich, a stop at Belize Zoo if time is available and all taxes. RESERVATION POLICY: A non-refundable deposit of 50% per person is required to hold space on all packages. No space will be held without receipt of deposit. Full pre-payment is due at Casa Maya 90 days prior to arrival. CANCELLATION POLICY: All cancellations must be received in writing prior to 90 days 100% of deposit may be transferred to another date. Between 45 - 90 days 50% of package may be transferred to another date. Less than 45 days may not be transferred or refunded. All cancellations have a $100 processing fee per guest. ATTENTION: We accept credit cards (Mastercard and Visa). Exchange rate for credit card payment is 2.07. Prepayment has to be authorized via email and then with a credit card authorization via fax. Thank you very much! [Casamayaresort] [accomodation] [services] [activities] [adventure] [medecine] [contact] [rates]