April - lots of tourist destinations - the zoo & savannah

In April, we had our friend Ben and Duffy's parents visit us. As always, houseguests are the perfect impetus to go see places that we hadn't visited before - thus our blog entries with all of our April photos represent quite a tour of Trinidad and Tobago.

The first stop was the Port of Spain zoo. It is admittedly a small zoo but it has several capybaras - which we think are very cute and which we have never seen in the wild. The zoo also had lots of monkeys, parrots and snow cones.


The zoo is located on the top of the savannah which is a really large park in Port of Spain. The Savannah is often called the world's largest roundabout - and indeed it is a one-way circle. As we walked to the zoo we came across this cricket pitch but we had no bats with us. You can also see in this photo that it is the dry season - thankfully it has rained since then and the park is starting to look greener.