Vacation Packages from the Belize Jungle Dome

Written by Andy Hunt


Following up from our new schedule of Adventure Day Trips in Belizerepparttar Belize Jungle Dome is pleased to announce its Schedule of Belize Vacation Packages for 2005

Designed for Families, Groups and Individuals our Vacation Packages offer yourepparttar 133983 best in Belize Adventure Vacations taking inrepparttar 133984 Jungle andrepparttar 133985 Tropical Islands. This years pre-packaged All Inclusive Deals include :

3 Day: Jungle Express Belize Zoo, Mayan Temple Exploration and Jungle Horse Back Riding 4 Day: Explorer Belize Zoo, River Cave Tubing, Jungle Horse Back Riding, Explorerepparttar 133986 Sacred Mayan Temples and a Belize River Trip

5 Day: Mayan Adventure Belize Zoo, Disocverrepparttar 133987 Ancient Mayan Temples, Jungle Horse Back Riding Adventure, Swimming Holes, Tikal and Belize River Boat Trip 6 Day: Surf & Turf Belize Zoo, Explorerepparttar 133988 Ancient Mayan Temples, Jungle Horse Back Riding Adventure, Snorkeling inrepparttar 133989 Tropical Seas, Beach BBQ, Manatee Watching and Swimming with Sharks and Rays at Hol Chan Reserve 7 Day: Ultimate Adventure Abseiling Throughrepparttar 133990 Jungle Canopy, Caving Exploration, Jungle Horse Back Riding Adventure, Blue Hole Scuba Diving, Amigos Wreck Scuba Diving and Swimming With Sharks and Rays

A Close Encounter with Wild Dolphins

Written by Gustasp Irani


My first glimpse of Tangalooma’s famous wild dolphins was fromrepparttar boat that ferried us to Moreton Island 75 minutes from Brisbane, Australia. They arched their black silken bodies out ofrepparttar 133982 water as though to greet us as we docked atrepparttar 133983 island’s main pier. I was down atrepparttar 133984 pier later that night for an up close and personal meeting with these friendly sea mammals; a group of eight that frolicked inrepparttar 133985 floodlit waters as they waited forrepparttar 133986 party to start.

Along withrepparttar 133987 other guests ofrepparttar 133988 Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort,repparttar 133989 only one onrepparttar 133990 island, I trooped down torepparttar 133991 beach, picked up a fish in each hand from a bucket and stepped intorepparttar 133992 water. Immediately a dolphin swam up to me. Large, gentle eyes looked into mine; pleading to be fed. I bent over and heldrepparttar 133993 fish inrepparttar 133994 water andrepparttar 133995 dolphin gratefully accepted my offering in its smiling mouth. And then lingered on a while, I like to believe to say thank you, before swimming out and repeatingrepparttar 133996 ritual withrepparttar 133997 next guest who stepped up to feed it. The wild dolphins that visited this little outcrop every day ofrepparttar 133998 year to bum a snack and say hello to us, their distant cousins that lived onrepparttar 133999 land, was only a fraction ofrepparttar 134000 thrills that Tangalooma had to offer its guests. Over two days in this island paradise, I would snorkel with schools of colourful fish, scuba diving within shipwrecks, ride All Terrain Vehicle (ATV) across sandy banks and even go tobogganing down desert dunes. Indeed, still recallrepparttar 134001 moment I lay flat on my stomach on a plank atrepparttar 134002 summit of a sand dune and looked downrepparttar 134003 treacherous plunge ahead of me. The moment of panic, however, had passed. I had already committed torepparttar 134004 tobogganing run and focused my attention on doing it right. I graspedrepparttar 134005 front ofrepparttar 134006 plank and lifted it offrepparttar 134007 sand and made sure that my elbows and feet were well up inrepparttar 134008 air so that they did not get scraped as I raced downrepparttar 134009 dune.

‘Let it rip?’ Alcester, our Tangalooma Wild Dolphin Resort tour manager and guide queried. ‘Let it rip!’ I responded. The next moment I was tearing downrepparttar 134010 face ofrepparttar 134011 dune. I don’t know what speeds I reached, but it seemed like over 100 kmp and withrepparttar 134012 ground whizzing under me, no more than a foot from my face, it was both terrifying and exhilarating. When eventually I came to a complete stop atrepparttar 134013 bottom ofrepparttar 134014 dune I stayed still onrepparttar 134015 plank, savouringrepparttar 134016 thrill ofrepparttar 134017 ride. A little later I was trudging uprepparttar 134018 dune for one more zany run down its slope. It wasrepparttar 134019 culminating highlight ofrepparttar 134020 island safari which started with a drive through dense native forests that emerged onto a bleak desert inrepparttar 134021 middle ofrepparttar 134022 outcrop.

Back atrepparttar 134023 resort I checked in atrepparttar 134024 resort’s dive unit and kitted up – tanks, wetsuit,repparttar 134025 works – for an underwater adventure. A little boat ferried us torepparttar 134026 dive site atrepparttar 134027 far end ofrepparttar 134028 island whererepparttar 134029 rusted superstructure of sunken vessels spookedrepparttar 134030 sky aboverepparttar 134031 water. Soon I was swimming with fellow divers around battered hulls of ships resting uponrepparttar 134032 seabed and admiringrepparttar 134033 new marine ecosystem of colourful coral and tropical fish that had evolved around these ghostly galleons. I felt my pulse start to quicken when Lea, our dive leader and my diving buddy, led us into heart of one of these wrecks. Sensing my apprehension, she held my hand while we swam through an underwater passageway. I emerged fromrepparttar 134034 ordeal withrepparttar 134035 sense of elation that comes from having confronted my worst fears and survived. The rest ofrepparttar 134036 dive was a visual delight. Soft coral swayed torepparttar 134037 rhythm ofrepparttar 134038 currents while brilliantly hued fish in amazing shapes and sizes waltzed around us in this bizarre underwater wonderland where life flourished inrepparttar 134039 midst of ancient wrecks.

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