Checo Hill is our home, guesthouse and farm in the hills of Cayo District near to the Mountain Pine Ridge. We are located on the outskirts of the village of Seven Miles / El Progresso, a small farming community.
We offer bed and breakfast accommodation, a self-catering kitchen, meals on request and a variety of activities in the surrounding area and wider Cayo District.
We've had a few cloudy days recently - the passage of a cold front, which brought a little rain with it. The views from the overlook behind the guesthouse (or, even better, from the summit of the hill) are fantastic whatever the weather may be.
This is looking roughly southeast towards the Thousand Foot Falls on the very edge of the Mountain Pine Ridge.
We're moving slowly towards reopening the guesthouse to international guests (after a year out of action - for pretty obvious reasons), and as well as implementing all the new coronavirus-related health and safety requirements put in place by the Belize Tourism Board we've been smartening the place up.
New paint on the exterior walls, new jazzy colours on the trim, a good tidy up inside, refinishing the floors, improving the observation tower on Checo Hill... The place will be unrecognisable by the time it's up and running again.
Lots of work involved here - many thanks to our many wonderful neighbours for their help with all of this.
Landscapes of Belize's Cayo District: this is looking across the valley from Checo Hill Farm towards Elijio Panti National Park, beyond which lies the Mountain Pine Ridge Forest Reserve - only 20 minutes away from us.
The national park consists of steep limestone hills covered with broadleaf tropical rainforest and home to many caves; the forest reserve consists of rolling granite hills, covered in Caribbean pine forest and sweeping grasslands. Both are home to many rivers and waterfalls; both are wonderful places to spend a day (or several!) exploring, swimming, birdwatching, etc. We're lucky to have them so close.
Adam got lucky this morning and managed to get a reasonable photo of the usually very fast-moving black-and-white warbler. This species visits us during the winter months, and is typically found on the edge of or just inside the forest - usually darting around like a crazy thing!
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