I woke up suddenly with my alarm and jumped into action. Fortunately I had packed a bag so I was ready to go. I grabbed it and got going to the office where I was the first person to arrive so went across the street for some breakfast for the busy day ahead.

Ryan and the rest of our group arrived and we got going a little late, but hey its Belize time! On the bus to the Actun Tunichil Muknal caves (ATM) we got to get to know our fellow explorers. At the site we had to walk about an hour to get to the cave and just after starting the walk we had to wade through a river which showed us that for the rest of the day we would be wet. The walk was easy and when we reached the cave entrance the adventure began.

We swam through the entrance and took a walk inside where the guide started explaining the history of the cave. It is one of the only ones open to the public and all the artifacts found here are still in the same place that they were found. There was evidence of blood sacrifices as well as human sacrifices. It is said that the longer the drought lasted the more severe the Mayan sacrifice and the deeper into the cave they went to get closer to the gods. To get to the dry chamber we had to swim, squeeze and slide through the cave (which was great fun). There are 14 skeletons in the cave and we were able to see about 5 of them all of varying ages but were all royalty and only 1 woman was found here.

The stalactite and stalagmite formations were amazing along with all the colours around us. On the way out we went a different route where we had to slide through a narrow gap with only our heads above water and a gap only big enough for our neck to fit through.

At the bus we enjoyed some food and rum punch before making our way to the tubing. The tubing also started with a walk and we decided to go for the option of exploring a cave and not only floating through it. We floated down the river, jumped off some rocks and did some exploring before making our way onto the river again. It was a very chilled ride as there weren't many rapids and it was shallow in parts meaning that we had to watch out for the rocks below us.

Once we were out of the cave the sun was already setting but there was enough light for us to enjoy the river banks and scenery before heading to the bus to make our way back to town.

Here our group split but coincidentally we met up again for dinner and drinks later before calling it a night after a long day.