Camping
 
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This our main focus for now. We are here for the camper
who wants to be close to nature and wants a more Maya-like experience. We
offer two main modes.
Tent camping on the lawn - your tent our lawn. Just your basic service
at the moment. We will be building tent platforms in the future, but we're
not there yet.
Hammocks in the champa. The champa can be divided into smaller rooms for
family privacy or just left open for large groups. When our Maya friends
come into the champa, they generally say "This is how I grew up."
For those who want to sleep on a platform instead of in hammocks, we
will be building a loft in the champa, but it is not there yet.
We also have a pair or twin beds, and king-sized bed that can be set up
for those hammock-avoiding people.
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Prices
Tent camping on the lawn - your tent - $3.00bz per person
Tent camping on the lawn - our tent $6.00bz per person
Hammocks in the champa - your hammock - $4.00bz per person
Hammocks in the champa - our hammock $7.00bz per person
Day use - $15.00 Belize
pp for use of facilities and lunch, beverages extra.
Group sales available, prices negotiable.
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Food
   
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We are very proud of Orfalina's cooking. She has run her
own restaurant in Santa Elena, and cooked for several resorts in the San
Ignacio area. We are also proud of the new kitchen, a joint effort between
Carmen and his crew who built the building, and Orfalina's son George who
did the cabinets. Finally, food is just better cooked on the fogon, the
traditional fire hearth.
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See the Menus for details but a day's worth of meals will cost about
$36bz plus beverages.
Menus
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Nature trails
   
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There is a trail that goes all the way around the edge
of SoPilar, a little over a mile - say 9 furlongs or 1.8 K. There is about
a 500 foot difference from the highest point to the lowest.The serious
hiker won't take all the relief seriously, but the casual vistor should
take it easy here. There is a shorter trail over the East ridge that is easy, once you get to
the top of the hill. In
addition we are cutting more trails through the jungle to highlight rare or
endangered plants. We are working on labeling the important species on the
trails.
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Trails are free.
Guides by arrangement
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The El Pilar Reserve
 
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Since the reserve is an international park, you can't
eat or sleep there. One of our prime functions is to provide those services
for visitors who would like to have a different experience, or just stay a
little longer in the park than convenient to the ride back to San Ignacio.
You can certainly go into the reserve on your own but we recommend using a
guide who can broaden your experience enormously. We have partnered with
Luis Godoy of Belize Nature
Travel for this. Luis has been guiding for us for over ten years and is
the best guide we've had, and there are may good guides in the country. He
has helped us with guidence, ideas, and even fitted an elbow or two in the
plumbing. You can reach him
email address luisgodoynatureguide@yahoo.com, or
Phone 501-824 3314
Cell 501-601 4571
(From the US
dial the 011 prefix first)
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Reserve fees are $10 bz for Visitors and $5 bz for Belezians
Luis, and any member of the Guide's Association, has his own price scale
depending on number of people, services to be provided, and season.
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