Today Beth and I got up early and went to Punta Gorda. I quickly showed her around PG and the market (we bought our groceries for the week). After quickly touring PG we met my principal and his twins to go on a trip to Machaca Hill Resort. I heard the resort was gorgeous and I wanted to go there for a while (the GLOW girls were going to go there for their end of the year trip, but then they all changed their minds.) Therefore, I decided to go and bond with my principal and to show Beth a beautiful resort in Belize … since she just ended up sleeping at Peace Corps Volunteers houses all week (Shannon, Mine and Kim’s house).
Before going to Machaca hill we stopped at Mr. Garcia grandmother’s house to get star fruits. I love star fruits and she had a huge tree with many many star fruits on it.
After chatting with Mr. Garcia’s family and picking fruit we went to Machaca Hill Resort. The lonely planet book says that Machaca Hill Lodge is a marvelous rainforest and fishing lodge with a superb hilltop setting overlooking miles of protected jungle stretching down to the Gulf of Honduras. Surrounded by the Laughing Falcon Reserve, an 11,000-acre privately owned protected area, the lodge offers comfortable accommodations and access to unparalleled fishing. Experienced fishing guides take anglers out on eight-hour fishing trips and the lodge has a well-stocked fly shop, and fly-fishing gear for rent. On land, there’s excellent birding, trails to walk and trips to southern Belize at tractions. The 12 beautiful room boast solid wood furniture, ceramic-lined bathrooms, two queen sized beds and verandahs overlooking the jungle and sea. The lodge is 2.4 miles off the Southern Highway, from a turnoff 3 miles out of PG.
It was beautiful the twins, Beth and Mr. Garcia saw the jungle lodge. We took lots of pictures of the flowers and trees. Then we walked down 300 steps to get down to the river. The river was very brown (not too pretty to swim in). The Machaca Hill worker said that there has been a lot of sightings of crocodiles and many fish. Then we took the electric pully tram back up instead of walking back up the steps. We then planned to swim in their beautiful pool for a price of 10 BZD. However, the manager said they changed their policy. They are no longer allowing outsiders to swim in the pool… only people who stay at the hotel can swim in the pool. We were all kinda bummed because we wanted to swim.
Since we couldn’t swim then we went back to Mr. Garcia’s house and Mrs. Garcia was just getting home from her teacher’s workshop and their son Chris was just getting out of high school early. We then decided to go to the park and get cahoone cabbage to eat. (Mr. Garcia picked it up for us and brought it back to his house for us). After finishing the delicious cahoone cabbage we then headed to the PG sea. Beth and I decided not to swim because we soon had to get on the bus and head back to Laguna. The twins (Elton and Emma) had a blast swimming in the PG sea!!!
We went back to Laguna and Beth taught me how to cook an easy tuna casserole meal!
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