The Carara national parque is about 1km from the Crocodile bridge, it straddles the dry forests of the northwest and the rainforest's of the Pacific lowlands. And it's HOT!
We went there in search of Scarlet Macaws, having read all about them in the book 'Last of the Macaws', a true Belizian story about one woman's plight to save the last 200 birds in Belize (before the Canadian electricity company Fortis built a dam and wiped out their habitat).
The place is literally buzzing with life and sounds, we set off at 7am and managed to see the macaws deep in their daytime nesting spot high in the trees (at night they fly to the mangroves on the coast to take refuge in a safer area). The monkeys were huge, about 3.5ft tall and they moved in packs, the video really doesn't do their tree jumping beauty justice! You can hear the screeching background noise of the bugs and birds, amazing.
There was so much growing - everywhere fruit trees were spilling out treats for the residents and the size of the older trees were outstanding, some 250ft tall and everything seemed to exist perfectly together. We spent 5 hours exploring the trails with our heads permanently cranked towards the jungle canopy, fabulous fun.
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