My wife and I are burning paid time off in Belize and I managed to get in some riding today on a rented 250cc dual sport Lifan which did the job just fine.
I was told there are virtually no trails in the country. Deep jungle like they have here would grow back over the trail quickly. So I'd be looking at a mix of dirt, gravel, and a touch of sand on a handful of dirt roads. The bike rental owner Emma was brilliant -- Motorbike Rentals and Alternate Adventures, highly recommended -- and hooked me up with Les, another renter who would ride the same day and had some riding experience in the country.
The two of us set out and hit 3 areas today:
Cockscomb Basin
Mayan Sky - by the river
I was told there are virtually no trails in the country. Deep jungle like they have here would grow back over the trail quickly. So I'd be looking at a mix of dirt, gravel, and a touch of sand on a handful of dirt roads. The bike rental owner Emma was brilliant -- Motorbike Rentals and Alternate Adventures, highly recommended -- and hooked me up with Les, another renter who would ride the same day and had some riding experience in the country.
The two of us set out and hit 3 areas today:
- The road to Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Preserve - The Visitor Center has a very old pickup truck with a large tree grown through its bed.
- The road inside Mayan Sky zip lines - they were nice and let us in to explore this road that gets progressively overgrown. Had a few small water crossings, cleared some trees and eventually decided that 4-foot high grass and brush was too deep to continue through. Les saw a big snake (unknown kind) along the way.
- Road to Red Bank - this was wide, fairly open, but narrowed to a big mud hole in the road that was our signal to turn around. Sorry, no pictures of this one.
Cockscomb Basin
Mayan Sky - by the river
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