Bacalar - Birding, Day 3, Villas Ecotucan

Day 3 found us once again up at 5:30 and on the road by 6:30, this time we are heading to Villas Ecotucan to walk along a road above the lagoon and to take advantage of a botanic trail that is a part of the grounds of Ecotucan.

The access road between Villas Ecotucan and the houses below was a fabulous birding site.  Again, my camera just wasn't up to the task.  Of course it had NOTHING to do with the photographer!

One of the cabanas at Ecotucan.



It was a fabulous morning!


After our morning of Birding we returned to our accomodations at Casitas Carolina and made a few reparations to ourselves and headed down to the Free Zone in Belize. I guess if you are close you should go just to say you've been, but in all honesty you really only ever need to do it once, if at all.

We then headed in to Chetumal to the Maya History Museum which is highly recommended.   A lovely museum.   Then we went to Sergio's Italian restaurant and stuffed ourselves!   YUM!  A walk along the malecon and back to Carolina's to sleep.

Bacalar - Birding, Day 2, Kohunlich

Day 2 on our birding trip to Bacalar found us up at 5:30 and on the road by 6:30.  We stopped several times along the route and were never disappointed in the numbers and varieties of birds.  I took some photos but my little point n shoot is just not up to the task of long distance action bird shots.  Trust me when I say we saw a lot of birds.

After we got to Kohunlich we continued to be amazed by the sheer volume of birds we were seeing. 


Add to that the ruins themselves.

and of course the intrepid friends we had with us -