BARTON CREEK CAVE
Tour

Barton Creek Cave

Barton Creek Cave is popular among San Ignacio Cayo visitors who might enjoy floating through the tall, quiet cavern. The experience is impressive and available to anybody physically able enough to step into a canoe.

Barton Creek Cave Highlights

This is a cathedral-like wet cave, once used for ceremonial purposes and human sacrifices by the Maya. A pair of Peace Corps volunteers stumbled on the cave in 1970 and found that it had been looted but still contained an enormous amount of pottery and artifacts. Archaeologists didn’t study the cave until 1998; they found large ceramics on high ledges, plus evidence of 20 human remains, including a necklace made of finger bones.

As your guide slowly paddles you deeper into the earth, the watery sound of his paddle echoing on the limestone. The cave is at least seven miles deep, but tours only go in about a mile or so before turning around.

This Barton Creek Cave tour can combine with Mountain Pine Ridge and departs from Cahal Pech Village Resort in the early morning and is inclusive of transportation, guide, park entrance fees and lunch.

Barton Creek Cave
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Barton Creek Cave & Mountain Pine Ridge
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BARTON CREEK CAVE Tour