Sunday: we’re going to the zoo, we're going to the zoo!

So Saturday night we made the decision to definitely go to the Belize Zoo- “the best tiny zoo.”

We took the local bus from San Ignacio to the zoo- it took longer than we thought especially since we waited nearly 45 mins for the bus to arrive. When the bus dropped us off, we were literally in the middle of nowhere on the road.

 But the zoo was just a quick walk from the road.  The zoo was 15$ American for admission and the first thing we come to is  Charles, one of the workers, holding a snake that we could hold! Well since I’m about the experiences down here- I was the first to hold the snake! Ekk!

We walked around the zoo, taking pics of the tigers, jaguars, eagles, birds, Mountain cows (ugly animal), and other animals that are wild in Belize! Here are more pictures!

The Tapir/ mountain cow

This is one of the many Jaguars they have rescued

a pretty pathway- i love it when trees make a canopy/ tunnel

a massive bird that we watch for at least 5 minutes - it gave us a show of flapping its wings

the Harpy Eagle

the back of the 2 Macaws- so colorful!

Then we waited for the bus to go back to Belmopan to then catch the connector bus to head back home! We got to the bus station- said bye to Joe and then Raphael waited with us to get on the bus. And it was an adventure getting on the bus- caroline held onto my backpack and we pushed through the line to make sure we got on! And we did- I was fortunate and got a seat next to a woman who lives in PG, and she was very helpful with questions I had along the way 

Finally at 7:30 we arrived home- we both had never been so excited to be back to Hillside! We ran up to where Carol is staying to let her know we survived our weekend and then went to Abby’s house to meet all the new students: 3 pharm students from Drake, 1 PT student from St. Louis university , 1 med student from New Zealand and 6 med students from the UK and then a new PT preceptor, Stacey.