OCT 12

Sometimes vacationing can be difficult for an EcoGeek. It's best to find something sustainable and close to nature...but only if there's high speed internet.  If you really want to get back to nature, without losing touch, check out The Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary.  It is only a few miles from Belize City and it is located in Central Belize.  Monkey Bay is a very unique campground located within 1,070 acres of tropical forest, riverine and savanna habitats.  It also Borders the Sibun River which flows from the Maya Mountains to the Caribbean Sea.   

The majority of the drinking and bathing water in the campground is supplied by rainwater.  The showers are heated by passive solar heating; they are simply stored in large black barrels and gravity feed down to the shower stall.  Another extremely interesting part of the Monkey Bay campground is an unexpected relationship between the outhouses and the kitchen.  The outhouses are designed to capture the methane gas from your waste and that gas is then transferred into the kitchen to power the stove burners. Not only is this amazingly sustainable, it's also just gross enough to give you an amazing story to tell your friends.