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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to San Ignacio, Belize by TravelPod blogger Dimparcio titled “ATM caves” Dimparcio’s travel blog entry: “Happy valentines day…. Its another earlyish start and we tuck into our pre ordered full English brekkie (or at least Belizean equivalent) at 7 am ready to depart at 7:30… I am not overly jovial at this early hour when we had the choice of departure time but I bow to everyone else’s eagerness and later in the day I am glad I did so… Tim, Doreen, Stefanie and myself are making the trip, I waste precious more minutes of my life wondering why some of the others came on this Gap trip since they never do any of the activities?? We pick up 2 Americans, Scott and his daughter Grace and head on out to the ATM caves. It is a bumpy journey, the bumpiness magnified by having a flat tyre; we stop to fix the tyre but no one has the right spanner for the wheel nuts so we carry on the caves arriving with a tyre in absolute tatters — ah well : this is Belize and you learn to just go with it!! It’s a 30 — 40 minute hike from where we ark to the entrance to the caves, I must say our guide looks far more the part then we do with his combat trousers, rucksack and even larger machete — but us townies manage ok and we soon get to the cave entrance…. Wow; the entrance itself is impressive as we enter into the water and swim into the cave…. This is only a taste of what is to come. After swimming, wading, walking and clambering …