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At
the junction with the Hummingbird Highway, 73km from Belize City, is
the Guanacaste National Park (US$2.50), where you can wander
through a superb area of lush tropical forest at the confluence of
Roaring Creek and the Belize River.
There's an orchid display at the visitor centre, and several short
trails which head through the park and along the riverbank
The main attraction is a 40-metre guanacaste or tubroos tree,
which supports some 35 other plant species, including a huge range
of bromeliads, orchids, ferns, cacti and strangler figs.
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As
the park is so close to the road, your chances of seeing any
four-footed wildlife are fairly slim, but howler monkeys use
the park as a feeding ground. Birds, however, abound, with over
eighty species, among them blue-crowned motmots, parrots and
squirrel cuckoos. |
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