Tour Description
The modern Mennonite settlement of Spanish Lookout lies about 45 minutes north of Crystal Paradise. The area provides excellent bird watching, as well as an opportunity to witness the unique Mennonite way of life.
Mennonites are a Protestant evangelical religious group, which originated in Switzerland and the Netherlands at the time of the Protestant Reformation, among the different groups are the Amish of Pennsylvania in the United States. In 1958 the first two groups of Mennonite settlers left their farms in northern Mexico and made the migration to Belize, then a strange and unknown land called British Honduras. The settlements planted corn, beans, and other crops, and started raising chicken and dairy cows.
