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Cayo gots an amazing write up in the February edition of Hemispheres Magazine. Caracol, Rio Frio Cave, and MPR are described and shown in pictures. Blancaneaux Lodge is where the author stayed, and it gets a great review. The Flavors of Belize cookbook also got a great mention in the article too.
"You stop at a military checkpoint, then proceed to the Rio Frio Cave. Belize is riddled with caves, many of which contain human remains. The Maya would perform ritual sacrifices in these places because they believed they were portals to the underworld, through which the Sun God, in the form of a jaguar, would travel at dusk. The Rio Frio Cave is open-ended, so it wasn’t used for sacrifices—but it was used, as evidenced by the Mayan pottery fragments scattered around. The crown jewel of the Cayo region is Caracol, a sprawling ruin that once was one of the most powerful cities in the Mayan world. At its peak there were maybe 150,000 people living here, roughly half the present population of Belize, and the whole city was clad in plaster. It was mysteriously abandoned 1,200 years ago and rediscovered by a logger in 1937."
