What to do and see in Toledo District, Toledo District: The Best Budget-friendly Things to do

TIDE Tours is the premier tour operator in Southern Belize offering fascinating & unique travel experiences for over 15 years! We pride ourselves at carrying out environmentally responsible tours to Toledo’s most pristine attractions. Our goal is to enhance our guest’s interest, understanding & appreciation for the natural and cultural wonders of Belize, Central America. Through our professional and qualified tour guides and staff, we are able to create amazing vacation packages and tailor make your holiday. Toledo offers the ultimate tropical getaway! We are Belize’s only destination to experience the richest in cultural diversity, caves, waterfalls, Maya Temples, Snorkeling Adventures, Sport Fishing, Birding, Kayaking and so much more all in one destination! Toledo truly offers the best of both worlds!

Warasa Garifuna Drum School is a cultural and educational landmark situated in the historic Saint Vincent Garifuna land on the edge of Punta Gorda town. Our traditional thatch museum and school, created from traditional materials only in the local historic style, and decorated with Garifuna cultural artefacts from the past 100yrs and also modern paintings and handicrafts, is a living museum. Guests may look around around at items on display, or choose a more hands-on way to experience the rich history and heritage of the Garifuna through an interactive lesson or performance in traditional drumming, dancing or drum-making for individuals or groups. Warasa also welcomes local Belizean school groups to this authentic educational site.

Eladio's Chocolate adventure is a family operated business that process chocolate using ancient tools and techniques as past on by our Mayan ancestors. Its a business that showcasing from the seeds of a cacao to chocolate bar. At Eladio's we provide the following packages: 1. Handmade Mayan Chocolate Demo, 2. Mayan Food, 3. Mayan Homestays, 4. Mayan Music and Dances, 5. Organic Farm Tour etc......

Living Maya Experience is a cultural home visit that offers guests a fascinating glimpse into a fast disappearing in which the local Kek'chi Mayas depend upon the forest and found everything in it to satisfy their needs from food to furniture to medicine. We showcase a Mayan home as it would have been fifty years ago before the modern world bean to impinge. An inside tour in the Mayan home whereby guests get the opportunity to hear a brief history about the beliefs, traditions and other cultural activities such as playing the traditional musical instruments, grinding corn, coffee or cacao bean on the grinding stone and making corn tortillas. Guests can also roll up their sleeves and get involve in the food preparation over the traditional open "fire-hearth". Visits are highly interactive and fun with all five senses involved. A trail tour around the yard guests get to taste, smell and gain more knowledge about the local herbs, medicinal plants and spices used to season the Mayan cuisine. We offer traditional Mayan dishes for lunch( vegetarian & non-vegetarian). Living Maya Experience is an authentic, educational cultural tour.

At its new location in Punta Gorda, The Maroon Creole Drum School offers classes in Creole and West African drumming, drum making workshops and culture presentations as well as fire hearth cooking classes with traditional recipes. Handmade crafts and art are on sale too. Under the direction of Emmeth Young, one of Belize's most experienced and versatile drummers, the Maroon Drum School aims to educate, share and preserve the music and traditions of the Creole people of Belize. Emmeth is from the small village of Gales Point Manatee, settled by escape, or maroon, slaves in the late 1700's. The Maroon Creole Drum School's project "Drums Not Guns" directly supports local youth mentor-ship and cultural preservation.

Discover the Real Toledo and be inspired by its people and natural beauty, let PG Tours help you create your own wonderful memories. Interact with the locals, learn through their experiences and see firsthand how life is for the variety of cultures living here past and present! PG Tours offers you a truly "authentic" experience! Leave daily 8.30am from our office, or we can collect from your hotel

This Mayan site is known for its 25 intricately carved stelae, including a figure wearing a large headdress ("Big Hat").

The largest Mayan ruin in Southern Belize, dated to 700-900 AD, includes carefully cut limestone blocks which needed no mortar to hold them together.