Short version : Great guides, nice ride, amazing waterfall, great swimming, and good food.
You know those amazing waterfalls you see beautiful people swimming through in movies and travel advertisements? Well Davis falls could easily be one of those locations. This is an amazing place to kick your Instagram feed into high gear!
To get there, you have a 1.5 hour drive in a comfortable cart pulled behind a tractor. The trip through orange groves and jungle is really nice, and we saw lots of birds and even some coatis. My favourite part is when the guides jumped out and picked some oranges for us to eat (we were lucky to be there during harvest). What a treat, fruit right off the trees!
There is a 30 minute walk through the jungle. The trail is a bit rough at the moment with some short steep sections, and there is a bit of scrambling over rocks to get to the pools at the falls, so you should be comfortable moving over a few rough sections of trail. I am not that fit and I managed it fine, so you don't need to be an athlete.
The falls are beautiful. There are two pools to swim in, one right below the falls. The water is clean and the perfect temperature for swimming. The tour gave us a lot of time to swim and sun before walking back to the tractor.
From the tractor, we made a short 5 minute walk to another pool on the river for lunch. This was the Belizean special of rice and beans, and chicken. The food was good, and they catered for the vegetarian in our group. As a bonus, we got orange juice from the local orange processing plant.
After lunch, we got to swim in a deep pool in the river next to our lunch spot. When everyone was satisfied, we climbed back into the cart and made the return trip, happily chatting to the guides and other passengers.
The guides were friendly and went out of their way to make the day enjoyable. This area is literally their back yard, and you can really tell they love the spot and are enthusiastic to share it. I cant recommend this tour enough.
