5 Sisters was the best lodging we had while traveling, I would highly recommend this place to anyone traveling through the interior of Belize. The downside of our trip – we didn’t have time to experience much more than the most basic parts of their experience, but it was more than enough to allow me to make this recommendation.
This was the room that Sean and I shared. I have other photos of the girls place and the outside, but they are in day 2 :).
The glass on the left contained a punch/rum drink, which was presented to us when we arrived and consumed minutes later. I’m a big fan of any place that gives you rum when you show up at the door :P.
The dinner table that was set for the 6 of us. A beautiful setup – unfortunately because of the dark the view behind isn’t visible yet. We’ll see it again in day 2. The food was great – but I’ll write about that in a food specific post later. For now, we can marvel that my photo turned out as amazing as it did! This sort of photo makes me really glad I bought a new camera a few months ago.
After dinner (and a few more drinks…) we took the walk down 300 stairs from the lodge to a waterfall/lagoon at the base of the cliff.
More camera geekery – these two photos were taken in full-dark, by the light of the full moon. 🙂 We went swimming. I made the brilliant decision to use the waterfall as a water slide. In hindsight, this was a bad idea – the next morning I found that my tailbone had swollen up and it reminded me of the last time I had hit it on something – I almost ended up in emergency because of an infection >.>. (3 days later and a lot of Motrin the swelling had subsided and no one was the wiser…:D) Sliding down was lots of fun though…the waterfall had made the rocks completely smooth.
300 stairs back up later, Sean and I had a game of Carcassonne in our room and then fell asleep.
Day 2 will probably be split up as well, with some more 5 Sisters love at the beginning and then the rest of the day. But we’ll deal with that tomorrow. Later!
I am truly impressed with those night-time shots. Particularly the fact that in the dinner-table photo, you were able to capture the lighting/shadows in the foreground AND the moon/clouds in the sky way in the background. Sweet.
Thanks Kaili – I’m really stoked about these photos as well. I love that the dinner table photo has such brilliant colours in little touches of it. These sorts of photos are very much why I bought this camera – it’s said to have a very good CCD for low-light situations.
Sean just mentioned the camera review link as well and it’s been fixed :).
BTW, did you know that the link you posted to the camera review tries to make an external URL internal? Veeery interesting. And does not work. 😉
So, drunken waterfall surfing in the dark? I think you almost proved Darwin’s theory there, Craig.
Mm…lets say “slightly intoxicated waterfall surfing in the dark” instead. Might be mincing words, but it sounds _slightly_ less dangerous than what you said…