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At the junction with the Hummingbird Highway, 73km from Belize City, is the Guanacaste National Park (US$2.50), where you can wander through a superb area of lush tropical forest at the confluence of Roaring Creek and the Belize River. There's an orchid display at the visitor centre, and several short trails which head through the park and along the riverbank The main attraction is a 40-metre guanacaste or tubroos tree, which supports some 35 other plant species, including a huge range of bromeliads, orchids, ferns, cacti and strangler figs. As the park is so close to the road, your chances of seeing any four-footed wildlife are fairly slim, but howler monkeys use the park as a feeding ground. Birds, however, abound, with over eighty species, among them blue-crowned motmots, parrots and squirrel cuckoos.
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