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This is a slow place, where the mind and spirit of humans, animals and plants can unite.
This is a slow place, where the mind and spirit of humans, animals and plants can unite.
Business plan for an ecological integrated accommodation and recreation environment at Punta de Herreria with emphasis on research and proving.
Punta Herrería in Departamento de Izabal is a private owned natural reserve of 250ha, located at the river mouth of the Rio Dulce, Guatemala about 144 mi (or 231 km) north-east of Guatemala City, the country's capital place. The closest airport in Guatemala is Puerto Barrios Airport in a distance of 12 mi (or 19 km), South-East.
PH is situated at the Gulf of Honduras opposite of Livingston, the Garifuna town only reachable by water. Livingston serves as the municipal seat of the municipality of the same name. It was Guatemala's main port on the Caribbean Sea before the construction of nearby Puerto Barrios. Today, Livingston is noted for its unusual mix of Garífuna, Afro-Caribbean, Maya and Ladino people and culture. It is an touristic attraction, like the nearby situated natural touristic sites like waterfalls, hot springs or Caribbean beaches.
The Rio Dulce is an extremely important place for all Caribbean sailing cruisers. The habit of these sailors is to sail the Carribben from December to May. In the “Hurricane Season” from June to November it is too risky to sail or leave a boat in this area. Therefore the Rio Dulce became very famous for the best “hurricane hole”. Going 40 sm up the river to the town of Rio Dulce which offers a lot of useful amenities for sailors. Ample marinas with the possibility to haul out the boats for working on the underwater parts, which must be frequently checked or replaced and the hole hull to be repainted it is a perfect combination. Once knowing the boat in the save, sailors fly home to spent the hurricane season at home.
It is necessary for every boat coming into the Rio Dulce to first check in to Guatemala at the port authority and the customs in Livingston. Same by leaving the Rio. Sailors have to anchor in front of the town of Livingston, take their dinghies, doing the paperwork at land and returning back to their boats. Some times timing is bad due to changing weather on which sailors are dependent, and there is no other chance than anchoring over night to access the opening hours of the offices. In the last years it happened frequently that boats where robbed. Either by cutting the lines and ropes, stealing fenders or dinghies and out board engines.
Therefore a marina at this place would make most of the sailors their life easier without the fear of getting threaten or robbed. Additionally it would give them the advantage to know the boat in save harbor and visit the town or the nearby interesting touristic sites.
PH is a 250ha huge property at the corner from the Rio Dulce river to the Caribbean Sea. It is a natural reserve and implies high rain forest, two rivers, sandy beaches, steep coast, a very hilly terrain, and a lot of jungle ambiance all over the place.
It was bought step by step to preserve the natural areas of a tropical rainforest ambiance or help to the nature to get back there again. Parts of the property have been used for raising cattle and are in the process of renaturalization since many years now.
In close companionship with ARCAS, mistreated or illegal domesticated animals are already being monitored in appropriate areas and slowly being used to the wild.
Once more famous the intention is to get funds of people who have visited the place and could make a picture themselves of the
The reserve will be open for visitors and will offer partnerships to animals to get food and accommodation.
Same with trees. It is possible to buy a partnership of a tree to realize the reforestation and new plantation of special threatened trees and plants to prevent them from extinction and to give animals a new home in an appropriate environment.
The former Hotel with reception and restaurant can be used in the beginning to install an information center and to host invited interested potential customers or supporters.
All used energy will be renewable, and an experimental playground to approve and test new inventions for solar and other new technology also to give the visitors an impression what is possible in these days. A close cooperation with Campus Tech, a forward thinking institution in Guatemala City is foreseen to try out new technologies combined with preserving of nature.
All vehicles on land and water if needed will only be electric, if possible horses and other animals will be used for transport to under strike the uniqueness of this place.
Cooperation with ARCAS, ....
This is a slow place, where mind and spirit of humans have space to be free.
This will be a play and test ground for Guatemalan companies and inventions.
Weather new ways of cooking, insulating, constructing, lots of Guatemalan innovative companies will be invited to get involved to to try out new techniques, to exchange with other participants to have a ground to test under real conditions with feedback for a further expansion on the national and international market.
Special trained local people will guide guests on a small tour (1 hour) through parts of the reserve. For more information and excitement a day trip with jungle pick-nick or even a stay overnight in one of the NON LUXURY jungle cabanas or tree houses very spartan equipped with special introduction to techniques like coconut opening, water filtering, jungle cooking & more will be available. Best for couples….
Traditional transportation like horses or donkeys in a dense vegetation is enhancing the natural experience especially for families with kids.
Special tours are available with game quiz for children to get to know animals living in their natural habitat. Determine animals and plants got more and more forgotten in our society and children have the chance to see, smell and touch nature. This makes a learning process much easier than sitting in a school building, reading books and following dry lectures from teachers.
Schools are welcome.
There will always appear domesticated animals to be petted and fed. Important for children and adults to get a relation to nature.
Special Excursions lead by VERENA to get closer to nature by arranging given organic materials in an artistic manner. Some will be evanescent, some will form the landscape.
The small marina will host day time guests with the service to to the “clearing in and out” from the save harbor. A special bonus is to leave the boat there in an attended area and take advantage of the offer to go to nearby attractions like seven altares, agua caliente, playa blanca and of course to experience real jungle live with the guided tours of the reserve.
The hotel, built in the 80th could be resuscitated with its beautiful ambiance with reception, kitchen, bar and restaurant and some cabanas.
In the area of the marina small, spartan constructed and furnished cabanas may host guests who want to take advantage of the amenities of the marina but have their private areas.
Including special guided tours, the very simple jungle huts may be an aim for young honeymoon couples who want to experience pure nature in a jungle ambiance with very basic amenities and introduction in basic cooking, harvesting, etc.
The marina is guarded by watchmen with goose and dogs. All accommodations are connected over radio for emergency calls and an electric all terrain vehicle will be available at all times in case of emergency.
All energy will be supplied by renewable energy, water comes from wells or springs, lots of food comes from our trees or plantations, our boats operate with sails or solar,
We don’t want mass tourism! Only a few chosen will be able to join our project for educational purposes and in special areas with guides and teachers.
At the north east parts there will be lots of jungle eco housing with access to a community only beach. All materials used for building are experimental and of renewable or local harvested products.
This space will be in an area unique to Guatemala and developed, built and maintained in close cooperation with Campus Tec.
Tesla announced the production of solar shingles a few years ago. But it never came to a public release. So why not doing it on our own? This may be an amazing market! ;-)
(We have a friend who is solar dealer and experimented with a Chinese solution 7 years ago. I will ask him for his experience…)
I am sure we can finance at least the whole project with these! If we don’t get in trouble with BP & Co.
Lots of volunteers traveling around the globe want to enrich their own experience but also provide their knowledge of education, ecological building, growing and permaculture, and are welcome to help to build and maintain. The more input from the outside, the wider the range of ideas and finally the diversity of this place.
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