CHOCOLATE from Placencia
Chocolate is happiness that you can eat.
Learn cacao cultivation, chocolate making and the history and culture of chocolate in the Maya world and beyond, from 4,000 years ago to the present.
Ixcacao Chocolate see organically grown cacao trees, taste the fruit, sample Maya style hot chocolate and eat loads of amazing fine dark farm-to-table chocolate while you make your own from bean to finished product. Located a 2 hour drive south of Placencia, in Toldeo district, Ixcacao Chocolate, a Kekchi Maya family business, is the country’s oldest Belizean owned chocolatier.
Che’il Chocolate is a micro-factory located in Maya Centre community, only an hour drive north of Placencia Village. You can get a great introduction to organic cacao farming and Maya style chocolate making in Belize’s world famous Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Preserve
Ixcacao Chocolate see organically grown cacao trees, taste the fruit, sample Maya style hot chocolate and eat loads of amazing fine dark farm-to-table chocolate while you make your own from bean to finished product. Located a 2 hour drive south of Placencia, in Toldeo district, Ixcacao Chocolate, a Kekchi Maya family business, is the country’s oldest Belizean owned chocolatier.
Che’il Chocolate is a micro-factory located in Maya Centre community, only an hour drive north of Placencia Village. You can get a great introduction to organic cacao farming and Maya style chocolate making in Belize’s world famous Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Preserve
Ixcacao Chocolate
- Ixcacao Chocolate & Lubaantun or Nim Li Punit Maya Site - $130 US per person
Depart: 8am - Return: 5pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
- Ixcacao Chocolate & Spice Tour - $130 US per person
Depart: 8am - Return 5pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
- Ixcacao Chocolate & Waterfall Tour - $130 US per person
Depart: 8am - Return 5pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
- Ixcacao Chocolate & Zipline - $175 US per person
Depart: 8am - Return 5pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
- Ixcacao Chocolate, Nim Li Punit & Belize Spice Farm - $145 US per person
Depart: 7am - Return 6pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
- Ixcacao Chocolate, Nim Li Punit & Waterfall - $145 US per person
Depart: 7am - Return 6pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
- Ixcacao Chocolate, Spice Farm & Waterfall - $145 US per person
Depart: 7am - Return 6pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
Che'il Chocolate
- Cheil Chocolate & Belizean Bitters - $130 US per person
Depart: 8:30am - Return 4pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
- Che’il Chocolate Nibble - $65 US per person
Depart: 8am - Return 12pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
- Che’il Chocolate & Cockscomb Jungle Tour - $120 US per person
Depart: 8am - Return 5pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home, bathing suit and towel.
- Che’il Chocolate & Monkey River - $165 US per person
Depart: 8am - Return 6pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes. Depart from Buba Wuba’s Smoke Shack
What to bring: walking shoes, also recommend wearing lightweight long pants, and bringing a long sleeve shirt to put on for the jungle hike, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate to take home.
- Che’il Chocolate & Rick’s Coffee Experience - $130 US per person
Depart: 10am - Return 6pm
Includes: transport, park entrance fee, lunch, taxes.
What to bring: walking shoes, camera, sunblock, bug spray and extra cash to buy chocolate and coffee to take home.