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Sample the full flavor of Belize with our Food and Drink Tasting Tour. In the course of a few hours, we'll introduce you to the ingredients and culinary techniques that make Belizean cuisine special. You'll snack your way through the country's most bountiful farmers' market, learn to make ceviche Belizean style, and visit a rum micro-distillery. Along the way, you'll also take in the most impressive historical sights of Belize City.
Your tour begins at the Belize Tourism Village, the docking area for all cruise ship tenders. A few steps from your tender, you will meet our team at the Wet Lizard Restaurant and Bar and be greeted with a glass of fresh juice or coconut water. From there, an air-conditioned passenger van will guide you through Belize City.
Generally overlooked by tourists, Belize City is in fact a bustling, colorful town that features Victorian architecture from the British colonial era. Among the sights on your tour are Fort George, Memorial Park, the Baron Bliss Grave and Lighthouse, St. John’s Anglican Cathedral, and the House of Culture museum.
After touring the central city, you won't have far to go to visit the Queen's Square Market. Regardless of the season, the market is overflowing with local fruits and vegetables, such as cassava, soursop, mally apples, cashew fruit, plantains, and cocoa. While your guide leads your from stall to stall, you'll be able to sample some Belize's tropical treats. You'll also try johnny cakes or fry jacks, a breakfast staple throughout the country.
As you'll learn, Belizean cuisine reflects the remarkable cultural and natural diversity of Central America's smallest state. Belize brings together tastes from Africa, Britain, the Mayan heartland, and Belize's neighbors both in Central America and the Caribbean. In addition, Belizean cuisine benefits from a long fishing tradition and a rich agricultural sector.
You'll experience the diversity first hand as you continue your tasting tour. Your next stop will be a small tortilleria. You'll watch as the corn is ground, made into "masa" (or dough), pressed into a tortilla, and then cooked before your eyes. Best of all, you'll get to bite into the finished product.
Ready for a taste of the sea? You'll find it at a local open-air restaurant where the chef will teach you to make ceviche from fresh fish, lime, peppers, and other local ingredients. Prepare yourself for an explosion of Belizean flavor. Your tour, however, is not over until you visit the micro-distillery of One Barrel Rum, home to one of Belize's top rum makers and a winner of several international competitions. You'll have an opportunity to conduct your own taste test as well.
With your sampling of Belize's cuisine complete, we'll take you back to the Tourism Village. We'll say goodbye with a rum punch and give you the chance to buy a cookbook to take home a little taste of Belize.
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Group Discount Special:
Reserve a group of 8 or more and get a 10 percent discount on your total price.
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