Belinda caught her first glimpse of a machine gun about one metre inside the Mexican border and nearly turned to fly home hahah, if only she knew how many she would come across in the next week!!
we booked into a hotel and Tiffany accidentally tried her worst nightmare of a drink made from tomato juice and clam juice hahaha pretty funny face but the rest of us enjoyed the new flavour,
We then all piled back into the two cars and drove up to a huge complex called Caliente (meaning hot)
Owned by only one man this complex included a huge casino, a football stadium, an equestrian centre and a zoo oh and of course a huge racetrack, we had a quick look at some showjumping horses and then headed up to meet some more crazy animals i the zoo.
As you eneter you pass heaps of camels and then it slowly unfolds into a huge array of cages and other animals. Because it hardly ever rains in tijuana there is no drainage throughout the whole city and that included the zoo, all the animals had been moved from their original cages up into smaller cages around the clinic. There is a full time vet there that cares for the animals and despite the fact he had lost and eye and was in a neck brace due to a tiger incident he seemed pretty happy with his job haha.
We started by meeting some baby brown, black and sun bears which were only 10 months old, then went through an array of animals including, lions and tigers and bears...oh my!! and skuns, and rabbits, and monkeys and wolves and seals and llamas, and pot bellied pigs, and water buffaloe and jaguars and mountain lions and rare parrots, humungous snakes and ridiculously big spiders (yukkk)
some of our more up close and personal experience included, patting a young wolf, holding a yellow python that streched over all 5 of our shoulders, shook hands with an adult tiger and did i mention we got to hold albino lion cubs and baby tigers, we also met a rare siberian tiger cub but he was far to heavy for us to pick up!!!
After our amazing experience we had tacos for the first time, well proper tacos for the first time. Lime, coriander, raw onion and chile being the key ingredients. It was the day before a very important religous ceremony in mexico and fireworks were going off left right and centre which made the night interesting!!
On return from dinner to the hotel, we randomly met 2 western australians in the lobby, small small world!! they were engineering students from UWA but surprisingly did not snob us!!
After a wee nap we decided how often are we in mexico and proceeded to get dressed up and head back to the casino i mentioned above. A huge ordeal to park but finally got in for a good night of dancing to live music and life changing cocktails, all in all a great day.
Here is some extra pictures of all the cool animals we rubbed paws with, :)
Thats awesome! I want to go hold a tiger cub now. btw how did Bell cope eating coriander?
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