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Located at Mile 32, in the Hummingbird Highway, St. Herman’s Blue Hole National Park is one of the few places in Belize where nature, geology, and Maya history come together in a compact area. The park covers over five hundred acres of forest and limestone hills and protects two major attractions — St. Herman’s Cave and the inland Blue Hole.

For the Maya who once lived in this region, caves were not just openings in the earth but sacred spaces that connected the human world to the underworld. Archaeologists working in St. Herman’s Cave have found fragments of pottery, broken vessels, and torch remains that point to ritual use more than a thousand years ago. Entering the cave today, you follow the same passage where those ceremonies once took place, guided only by light and the steady drip of mineral water that still forms the stalactites above.

Beyond the cave, the park’s forest shelters many bird species and serves as an important water catchment for the Sibun River Valley. A short trail connects to the Inland Blue Hole, a collapsed limestone sink where an underground stream rises to the surface. The pool’s clear, cool water is a welcome stop for swimming after exploring the cave system, and it also demonstrates the way Belize’s underground rivers flow through the porous limestone beneath much of the country.

Visitors can walk the self-guided trails, join a guided cave tour, or combine the visit with cave tubing or birdwatching in the surrounding forest. Our licensed guides can explain both the natural formation of the cave and its archaeological background, giving you a clear sense of how people and landscape have interacted here over time.

St. Herman’s Blue Hole National Park offers travelers a balanced experience — part exploration, part education. It is an ideal stop for those interested in seeing how Belize’s natural systems and its ancient culture remain linked beneath the same forest canopy and is easily accessible as it is right off the highway if you are travelling to our many tourist destination South of Belize like Hopkins or Placencia.