Horseback Riding in Belize is a pretty common activity among tourists. While there are many places that take you on tours, it’s nice to be able to do it through a location you are already staying at.

Plenty of packages are made for the serious equestrian rider. You can book packages of multiple days and nights that take you on tours all over Belize- the jungle, the beach, the city. You name it. Courtney and I will be only partaking in a few hour horseback ride if we decide to do that at all.

1. Cotton Tree Lodge, a previously reviewed lodge, also offers horseback riding tours of the jungle complimentary of the stay. If you aren’t staying at the lodge it is also possible to arrange a day trip through them for about $48 a person for a three hour tour.
2. DuPlooy’s also offers horseback riding jungle adventures. DuPlooy’s sits way more in our budget- with 2 hour tours starting at $25 and a half day tour coming in at $40. A full day tour is only $65 a person. The horseback tours will take you to Slate Carvers’, Butterfly Farm and Natural History Center, Cristo Rey Falls or the Belize Botanic Gardens. This sounds a bit more our speed. However, if it is flooding on the day you have planned to depart on a horse, DuPlooy’s will not take you out on the horseback riding tour. Since we are going in the low-season (rainy season) we need to have a backup plan and plan accordingly if we decide to go with DuPlooy’s.
3. Green Dragon Adventure trips also offer horseback riding. They offer trips out of their jungle lodge or out of Belize City. The trip lasts about 2 and a half hours and comes in at a hefty $75 for the trip. That price would rule Green Dragon adventures out of our budget.
4. Jungle Dome also offers horseback riding and is ruled out as the priciest yet. The 2 and a half hour tours are $75 and the all day jungle tour is $110. Ruled. Out. Of. Our. Budget. 100%

We’ll have to decide if we want to add this to our list of activities and our expense list. With all the activities we plan on doing, our “Belize on a Budget” might not be so budgeted. The only thing that makes sense is to stay at a jungle location which offers it. Most likely- Cotton Tree Lodge.

To find out if we chose to go horseback riding and where at, check back for our final itinerary that we will post the morning we leave.