- I feel like I'm Eliza Thornberry
and you're that weird monkey thing
that follows me around and talks to me.
(upbeat music)
So right now, I'm staying in San Ignacio, Belize.
It's a really cool town with lots of stuff to do.
Mayan ruins, lots of nature.
So I decided that I wanted to move closer
to all of the greenery and beauty around here,
and I found this amazing treehouse.
I am so excited to go there.
I think treehouses are the coolest things known to man.
I look at Airbnb treehouses,
even when I have no intention
of moving or visiting that country,
I just look at them to look at them and dream.
My main concerns.
There are mosquitoes here,
so I'm not really sure if I'm going to get eaten alive.
It's really hot,
so not having AC might be the deal breaker for me.
All in all, I'm really excited, still.
For this vacation, I really want to be one with nature
and just enjoy the time that I have left in Belize.
Fingers crossed.
(soft acoustic music)
So, I'm here at Parrot Nest Lodge.
When I first walked in, it was amazing.
I was greeted with a lot of greenery.
I'm in a jungle.
This is really cool.
Look at this cool cabin.
This is fricking awesome.
I'm walking up to my place right now.
There's a nice little, short walk
to these two big treehouses,
and I walked into my room.
Oh, okay.
Right away, I was like, oh my god, this place is so small.
So this is my crib.
You guys are getting the grand tour.
This is, as you can see, the bed.
There's actually some mesh here
that's kind of keeping me safe from mosquitoes
and other things that are around me.
Over here, we've got the AC unit.
See how this works.
Look at it.
It goes both ways.
It goes this way, and then it goes that way.
That's insane.
I'm very used to living inside of a normal hotels.
I was kind of just adjusting to it.
In addition to the treehouse, there were hammocks,
showers, bathrooms, sinks, and home-cooked meals.
I'm really not a nature girl,
I have never been in the Girl Scouts,
I've been to summer camp a bit.
I'm not uncomfortable with being around so many bugs
and so many plants.
So after a while,
I decided that I had seen a lot of the resort,
but I really wanted to see what was around town.
Today is market day, and there's so much going on.
There's food, crafts, music.
(flute playing)
It's a serious event.
Just walking around in general
was really such a fun experience.
Just got some coconut juice in a bag.
It's pretty good.
It was just really great to see all these people
from different parts of town come together.
There's a lot of people here who are farmers,
a lot of people here are conservationists.
They rely on the land
and they're really committed to helping it flourish.
I've adventured around here as much as I can.
The last thing I can do is tube on the river.
So I'm here at the lake, about to go tubing.
Let's hope I don't die.
(screaming)
There's a waterfall in back of me,
we just went down it, it was crazy.
Me and the dogs.
- [Woman Voiceover] The dogs that live there came with me,
and they just jumped on my tube and nearly drowned me,
but it was still really fun.
There was a moment while we were tubing
where we just got to chill and look around,
and realize how beautiful everything was.
I knew I had to leave the next morning,
but I could tell it was going to be hard.
I'd really grown attached to that area,
and the feeling of being away from the city
and everything that I was used to.
- How about you, little guy?
So it's the end of the day, I am really tired,
but I'm really upset that I'm leaving.
God, these birds are loud.
It's so late.
(beep)
This has been such an amazing trip,
I feel like I've done so many things,
and I don't think that I could ever do anything
like this in the US.
I want to come back.
I want to live in this treehouse 'til I die.
(whimpering)
(upbeat acoustic music)
- [Woman Voiceover] So, the next morning,
I woke up to leave.
- Goodbye, angel.
We'll meet again someday.
You don't get to experience such close contact with nature
in a city-like environment that I live in,
and so it was really great
to get the opportunity to come out here
and kind of see a different perspective on how to live.
- [Woman Voiceover] I really feel like I found a hidden gem
that I wish I'd found sooner.
- [Woman] It's a frog.
(crickets chirping)
Hello, frog.
Hi.
Oh, I'm so happy I saw you before I left.