Chiquibul Forest Trek

The Chiquibul Forest Trek is located in west of the Maya Mountains into the valleys of the Chiquibul Forest Reserve, Chiquibul National Park and Caracol Archaeological Reserve. It is notorious as the trek that Jack Osbourne completed with Trekforce for his second series of 'Adrenaline Junkie'.

The trek starts at the site of 'Natural Arch', a huge 100 metre high limestone archway over the Chiquibul river.

From here, it heads north-west to the largest cave system in the western hemisphere, Chiquibul Chamber.

Eventually, after days spent trudging through the varied broadleaf rainforest, you emerge at the ancient Mayan ruins of Caracol. The bewilderment of clean tourists sighting a bunch of sweaty trekkers appearing from the jungle is a magical moment! 

That night there is the chance to watch a very impressive sunset over the Belizean rainforest.

In July 2007, the trek was completed with the addition of seeking the very remote and legendary Nohoch Ch'en sinkhole. At over half a kilometre across, surprisingly, not many people had been there and no-one knew for certain where it was. Read the blog entry below:

 "They made it ! At 1916 GMT we received another sat. phone call from Matt (the Trekforce Leader) confirming that the team had found the sinkhole. This is fantatsic. The team had achieved their objective of trekking to the edge of one of the largest sink holes in the jungles of the western hemisphere. Very few people have achieved this and in the true challenging spirit that is becoming a unique part of every Trekforce expedition, they made it.

"Matt reported that they had follwed a compass bearing for a few days and alongside their amazing local guide had found the sinkhole deep in the jungle; he then turned the phone to the team who let out a great cheer ! Serious tingles down the back of the neck feeling as we know how great the trekkers must have felt when the jungle suddenly opened up to reveal the awesome sight.

We are so proud of the Trekforce leader, Belizean guide and the team. This is the first Trekforce trek in 10 years to find the sinkhole and just proves what can be achieved when a team really pulls together. This is a trek that no-one will forget. The area is very special and they know how priviliged they are to have reached their objective - very few people in this day and age can say they have been to such a place, deep in the rainforest of Central America............"