Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary Belize

Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary
P.O. Box 187
Belmopan, Belize
Central America
Tel: 011-501-820-3032
Fax: 011-501-822-3361
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Xunantunich Maya Ruins - Educational Tour

Xunantunich Maya Ruins - Educational Tour

Monkey Bay specializes in experiential learning programs. Program themes include natural history field studies, national resources and protected areas management, community service, cultural diversity and village homestays, Maya archaeology, and our most popular field course - watershed and marine ecology. Our management team works with client teachers and group leaders to design program itineraries that meet the learning needs, interests and budgets of student groups.

Crossing the Macal River on Hand Cranked Ferry

Educational and adventure activities at the sanctuary include hiking, bird watching, canoeing, swimming, caving and evening campfire drumming. A few of the destinations within an easy day trip include: The Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center; Guanacaste, Blue Hole and Five Blues Lake National Parks; Tiger Bay Ceremonial Caves; Xunantunich and Cahal Pech Maya archaeological sites, the Community Baboon Sanctuary, Gales Point Village manatee and sea turtle watch; and Cox Lagoon Crocodile Sanctuary.

Monkey Bay offers academic programs in:

Watershed Ecology: The Path of the Rain God

Cultural and Natural History

Community Service

Exploring caves of Belize

All of our program offerings can be customized to cater to students and teachers ranging from middle and high school to university levels. Course duration typically is from 10 to 21 days, and group sizes range from 12 to 24 students. Tuition for the program is between $75.00 and $95.00 per person per day and is all-inclusive once arrived in Belize. Monkey Bay serves as home base for these courses from where field excursions to pertinent areas are visited, explored and interpreted. We use school buses for land travel, canoes for river transport, tent camping for overnight accommodations in the mountains, our field kitchen and staff for preparing meals that you will not believe, and village homestay and service project options for cultural exchanges that last a lifetime. Our staff is competent and very well trained. The Monkey Bay Crew offers clean, secure accommodations, provides reliable and safe travel, and creates healthy, delicious meals to cover all needs in a well equipped kitchen.

For more details read on, or contact us.

The Path of the Rain God

Headwaters in the Maya Mountains - 1000ft Falls

This experiential learning program provides students with a journey through a tropical watershed. Starting at the headwaters high in the Maya Mountains, we work our way through rivers, valleys and swamps, to mangrove forests and brackish lagoons, all the way down to its culmination on Belize's magnificent Coastal Zone and Barrier Reef Ecosystem. We teach how a tropical watershed functions through a series of academic activities, and by following the path that every drop of rainwater takes from mountains to the sea. For more information on this course, visit our website at http://www.watershedbelize.org.

Ridges to Reef

The Caribbean Sea and the Belize Barrier Reef -'so this is where all water paths lead!'

The Caribbean Sea and the Belize Barrier Reef -'so this is where all water paths lead!'

This program exposes students to the amazing array of cultural and biological diversity that exists in such close juxtaposition here in Belize. During this journey we visit a Maroon Creole village situated on a tiny sand bar in the middle of an estuary; a Mestizo community nestled in the broadleaf forests of the Maya Foothills; Ke'kchi, and Mopan Maya communities in Belize's southern rainforests; Garifuna fishing villages dotted along Belize's coast and barrier reef, and the list goes on. Along the path of Ridges to Reef, the course visits many of Belize's protected areas.

The objective of the course is to expose students to the different terrestrial and aquatic components that make up Belize's landscape, and to the human cultures that have evolved in their midst.

Conserving the Path of the Rain God

Mountain Pine Ridge - Rio Frio Cave

Mountain Pine Ridge - Rio Frio Cave

This course is mirrored to the Path of the Rain God, but here we focus on the conservation issues that face Belizean communities in the context of watershed ecology. During this field course we travel the watershed from top to bottom and spend time visiting the communities and organizations that work hard to conserve these areas in the face of changing global economic and development pressures. The course visits a host of protected areas, along with private farms, tourism facilities, logging camps and mining operations. Opportunities are created to meet with park wardens and conservationists, local villagers and developers - all of whom depend on the natural resource base maintained by natural watershed form, function and processes.

Mountain Pine Ridge - Headwater Stream water sampling

Mountain Pine Ridge - Headwater Stream Water Sampling

Group Leaders

Group leader with class

Group leader with class

Earn your way to Belize by organizing a program for students at your sending institution. Work with your school administration to sponsor a field program in Belize; advertise, promote and coordinate the program from your end, and leave the rest to us. Custom itineraries give you the opportunity to help design a program for your peers and students, and all you do is get the crowd to Belize.