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Río Frio Caves

Category: Cave
Location: Mountain Pine Ridge

Fodor's Review:

Río Frio Caves are only a few miles by car down a steep track, but ecologically speaking, these caves are in a different world. In the course of a few hundred yards, you drop from pine savanna to tropical forest. Nothing in Belize illustrates its extraordinary geological diversity as clearly as this startling transition. A river runs right through the center and over the centuries has carved the rock into fantastic shapes. Swallows fill the place, and at night ocelots and margays pad silently across the cold floor in search of slumbering prey. Seen from the dark interior, the light-filled world outside seems more intense and beautiful than ever. Rising vertically through the cave's mouth is a giant hardwood tree, Pterocarpus officialis. Its massive paddle-shape roots are anchored in the sandy soil of the riverbank and its green crown strains toward the blue sky.

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