Situated close to the Belize zoo, it was a bed and breakfast run by the Foster's. The Foster's are filmmakers who have done lots of work with nature documentaries featuring the nature and animals local to Belize. They have lived quite the adventurous life!
We we arrived the girls instantly fell in love with the hammocks and tree swing. Rob got attacked by a swarm of bugs (the first and really only attack to the trip) and we settled in for the day. Playing outside, walking the nature trail, doing some quiet time and having some lime water; our trip was starting off pretty well.
We left the guest house to eat at the local restaurant, Cheers. The kids played on the outdoor play set, Anna talked Spanish with a young adult from El Salvador and we had extremely slow service which caused us to rush our way through our dinner and the BEST tamale I have ever eaten in my life. It was amazing. I will have dreams about this tamale.....
After Cheers we headed to the Night Zoo (more on that later) and then back to the Savannah Guest House for the Night where after the girls got put down (they had been awake 18 hours) we sat and talked with Mr. Foster and another couple staying there.
We woke up in the morning, had the included breakfast of eggs, banana bread, bananas, papaya and pineapple and then Mr. Foster gave us a tour of the grounds and explained the film making secrets involved in nature documentaries to us. We fed crocodiles on his property, got in the cage with a margay (spotted leopard) and toured his film lab which was currently housing a tan of piranha's and a couple tarantulas. This was one of Rob's favorite parts of the trip.
The lab where some of the documentary work is done.
The girls thought feeding the crocodiles was cool but the highlight was getting in the cage with the margay.
The margay had been trained to jump 8 feet high and in return earn a baby chick for his meal. It was crazy being inside the cage while Mr. Foster got him to do all of this. I mean we were in a cage, with my children, WITH a wild leopard. It was surreal.
After that we packed our bags and headed off on the Western Highway towards Belmopan, Belize and the Hummingbird Highway.
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