Caves excite me, for some reason. The thought of spelunking has always sounded like a lot of fun - though, I know that if a swarm of bats swooped down upon me, I'd probably think otherwise. Cave tubing through underground rivers is a popular, if seemingly very touristed experience on the Caves Branch River in Belize. I was able to find several websites that set up 1/2 day or day trips on the river, and they definitely seem comparable to trips on the Apple River when it comes to debauchery and age group.
While on the subject of Belize, I came along this photo of the Great Blue Hole. It's a large underwater sinkhole located on the reefs off Belize's coast. It formed when the roof caved in on the cave system underlying the ocean floor. It's over 400 feet deep and believed to be the largest of its kind in the world. It really gained notoriety when Jacques Cousteau declared it one of the top ten dive sites in the world, and it is now protected as part of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (another UNESCO World Heritage Site, in fact); the Belize Barrier Reef is actually the second largest reef system in the world, after Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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