Our Internet connection (in the rainforest) cut out the past two nights, so I was unable to get a blog post up either night. I wrote the post below just before the Internet went down last night.
Tonight, I’m tired from being up at 5:00 in the morning, in order to get to and from Caracol today. So, I want to write an update, but it will be a bit brief.
In short, the trip is going really well. Yesterday, we spent the morning and lunch at Belize Natural Energy (www.belizenaturalenergy.bz), the only company that has produced oil in Belize. Oil is obviously not considered by most to be a sustainable resource. However, this might be the best oil company you ever come across. They are making a lot of money with the newfound oil, but they are doing it in a socially responsible way and in a number of ways that are responsible environmentally. They have a great story, and convincing evidence that they are going about business in a different and exciting way.
We followed that visit with a trip to the Belize Zoo (www.belizezoo.org), which was amazing on a number of levels. Not only did each one of us get to feed a tapir and high five a jaguar, but we also got to meet Sharon Matola, the founder of the zoo. Sharon is an amazing woman who took in a few monkeys that were going to be discarded from a film she assisted with, and has built a tremendous zoo. She is a great example of a citizen leader that has made a tangible impact in the sustainability of wildlife in Belize.
We returned tonight from a long drive from Caracol, a Mayan city that thrived for over 1000 years and at one point was home to over 150,000 citizens (about half the current population of Belize).
Some amazing highlights indeed. I hope to write more tomorrow after our cave tubing adventure!
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