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Green Building
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Vegetarian Food |
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Wedding Location |
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Honeymoon Package |
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Eco-Museum |
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Museum Artistry |
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Edible Garden |
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Birding |
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Belize
Native Orchids |
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Belize
History in Bottles |
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Nature Swimming Pond |
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Nature Sanctuary
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Dear Orchid Garden Hotel
Staff
We appreciate all the meals
(delicious meals) and the comfort of home away from Home. Thank
you so much for providing us somewhere to stay and the wonderful
Service!
We enjoyed the scenery and
the friendly environment!
You all are absolutely
Amazing and we will recommend you to anyone coming to stay in
Belize.
Thank you so much for
everything
Your friends from Minnesota
June 28
2008
Great service. Good food and
very beautiful place. Maria Belize
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Museum of Tropical Treasures |
This
is a living museum of
Belize tropical treasures. Here, we can show you how
we
utilized and recycled our natural
resources in the construction and
decoration of the museum.
The Eco-Museum is dedicated
to show
our Visitors the beauty of nature in
harmony with our Belizean culture.
The Orchid Garden Eco-Village
Restaurant is a large,
tranquil space with low walls
constructed out of river stones,
topped with lengths of thick
bamboo harvested from the banks
of the Sibun River.
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This allows natural light to
stream into the space, through
the fine mesh netting which
keeps the insects out. The
weight of the roof is taken by
trunks of logwood and other
hardwoods, and the roof is
insulated with cohune palm
leaves.
In the centre of the space is an
open area planted with typical
rainforest plants. Taking pride
of place in this central area is
a massive Ziricote root, draped
with white and purple orchids.
The opening in the roof above
this space increases the natural
light, and allows any rain to
flow in curtains directly off
the steeply sloping roof,
providing the restaurant with
its own waterfall whenever it
rains!
The tables are made from thick
slices of 50 + year old
mahogany, cut from what was left
by the loggers when they
harvested the main trunks. The
restaurant space is bordered on
one side by a butterfly
corridor. There is an adjoining
“Stone Room” exhibiting the
different kinds of igneous,
sedimentary and metamorphic rock
found in Belize.
The Orchid Garden showcases more
than 100 of the 300+ native
orchids and bromeliads found in
Belize, and a number of these
can be seen in the restaurant.
The overall effect is a sense of
being in a “green” building
promoting a feeling of inner
peace and an appreciation of the
beauty of the home-grown
materials, harvested for this
purpose in an eco-sustainable
way. Birds, butterflies,
basilisk lizards and geckos can
normally be seen and / or heard
whenever you are in this space,
which helps put you in touch
with your tropical surroundings.
The Exhibitions
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Maya Life Tree
Cohune |
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When Maya farmer clear the forest
for milpa
purpose, they spare one kind of tree due to its
many uses, that is the Cohune Palm
Cohune palm is abundant in Belize
rainforest, we use it's leaves for the ceiling,
people use it for roofing, use the trunk as
siding, it's heart of palm for food and it's
nuts for oil and charcoal, it is a symbolic tree
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The Wood Changed
History of Belize |
When the Spanish controlled
Central America and Mexico, the valuable
logwood, or the dyewood or tinto (the local
name), attracted the British baymen, they came
to cut the logwood and ship it to Britain. At
that time, 50 Tons of logwood almost equal the
value of shipping freights for one year.
This wood make
Belize the only English speaking
country in central America,
This hard wood grows in the swamp areas, it is
as hard as iron, no insect can eat it, it is
an ideal material for making posts.
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National Wood |
In this restaurant, all the
tables are natural mahogany
trunks, after loggers harvest the
mahogany, they left the stump of the tree. We go
and cut two more layers, and use them as our
tables. Even our tables are reclaimed.
The majestic mahogany can grow up
to 130 feet in the
rainforest, and take 50 years to
mature, due to its beautiful color and
long-lasting, it is one of the most sort
after material for furniture. If you go to the
top of the rainforest canopy, it is very easy to
find mahogany; they are average 30 feet higher
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Bamboo is a treasure but most of
unknown to many Belizean, there are a lot of
treasure in Belize waiting for people to
explore.
Bamboo is one of them. Many of
the bamboo in this building is nearly 16 years,
they are still in good shape, bamboo is a kind
of grass, but they are tall and strong, bamboo
could be used for furniture, construction,
gifts, arts etc.,
The best part of Bamboo is bamboo
shoot which is delicious
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Out side of the bamboo
Windows in this Museum,
is an experimental butterfly farm, there are
more than 700 varieties of butterflies in
Belize, which is out numbers all the butterflies
in north American
The butterfly have 4 life cycles,
the egg cycle is quiet. The teenager life cycle
of a butterfly is as a caterpillar. This period
of their life, is spent as an eating machine.
After they tired of only eating and being Ugly,
They hide Themselves in pupae for remodeling,
when they are done, they emerge as
beautiful butterflies who are happily flying
around. Butterflies are beautiful and have
sex only during their last stage of life |
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The Belize
rainforest is home
to epiphytes. Epiphytes like
orchids and bromeliads grow
on the tree instead of in the soil.
They hang from trees and get their nutrients
from the moisture and dust in the air
Bromeliads, A Plant with Its Own Water Tank;
These are plants that collect water in their
centers
The water forms pools that can support miniature
ecosystems! Many of these pools support
bacteria, insects, crustaceans, tadpoles, frogs
and even birds. The most well known bromeliad is
the pineapple, Pineapple, the miracle fruit from
the Americas. The pineapple has served as both a
food and a symbol throughout human history in
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Mother of Cacaoš |
Mother of Cacaoš
This is a very hard wood that
is used popularly for fence Posts which will
grow again after been posting.
Our traditional used to
soothe tired irritated eyes. The leave have
been used as a poultice for wounds
In the Philippines,
Gliricidia
(Madre Cacao) is washed and pounded to
extract the juice from the leaves. It is
then applied to the area affected by
external parasites once to twice a day for
one week. In Guatemala, the bark and leaves
of Gliricidia are used to treat human skin
diseases
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A simple way to a
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Belize Airport Hotel
Belize City Hotel |
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First Night
Belize Airport Hotel Package
US$70
pp ( Double Occupancy)
Price Includes;
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1 Room Nights
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1 Dinner
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1 Breakfast
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One Eco-Village Tour
Price Includes;
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3 Room Nights
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3 Dinner
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3 Breakfast
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One Eco-Village Tour
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Zip lining and Cave tubing at Jaguar Paw
40 minutes
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New River, the starting point for our river cruise and the ancient Mayan
city of Lamanai 50 minutes
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The terminal for the water taxi to Caye Caulker or Ambergris Caye and
the snorkeling in Shark/Ray Alley and at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve on
the Barrier Reef
25 minutes
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The highway junction in the village of Teakettle (starting point for the
awesome ATM Tour (Underground Expedition to the Cave of the Crystal
Maiden) 45 minutes
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The Belize Zoo
or the Baboon Sanctuary
20 minutes
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The International Airport
20 minutes
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Belize FAM Tour |
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Museum of
Tropical Treasures
Edible Garden & Birding Courtyard
Living Museum of Tropical Savannah
Eco-system
Museum of Nature Artistry
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Museum of Tropical
Treasure |
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Living Museum of
Tropical Savannah Eco-System |
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