Choosing one of our Belize vacation rentals offers you a chance to enjoy a great variety of nature-based activities. Belize’s beautiful reefs offer excellent snorkeling spots, there are many wildlife preserves to see, and the small South American nation has many beautiful rivers to travel down or fish on.

There are also many ruins found in Belize from the old Mayan civilization, making it an ideal destination for ancient-history buffs. Belize has one of the most interesting histories of any nation on Earth. The first Europeans to settle there weren’t explorers or colonists; they were English and Scottish buccaneers who used the area as a base from which to raid Spanish ships. The Spanish had tried to take over the island before the buccaneers’ arrival and laid claim to it, but the would-be colonists weren’t tough enough to stand up to raids from the native local Mayans. The buccaneers had better luck, and kept up their piracy of the seas from 1638 all the way up until the 18th century. At that time, they turned to logwood-cutting for their livelihoods.

Now, Belize is an independent nation, has a stable government, and its economic outlook is much brighter after the recent discovery of oil. It remains a destination that allows visitors to see a place that hasn’t been overrun with skyscrapers and still has a lot of pristine natural beauty to enjoy.