Chan Chich Airstrip
| Chan Chich Airstrip | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Private | ||||||||||
| Location | Gallon Jug | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 17°34′00″N 089°02′49″W / 17.56667°N 89.04694°WCoordinates: 17°34′00″N 089°02′49″W / 17.56667°N 89.04694°W | ||||||||||
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  Chan Chich Airstrip Location in Belize | |||||||||||
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Chan Chich airstrip is in Gallon Jug, Belize.
It is the only reasonable means of access to the luxury eco-lodge created by Sir Barry Bowen in his private game park deep in the Belize rainforest, adjacent to the Rio Bravo Conservation area. (Arduous tracks accessible to 4WD vehicles are the only other connection less remote areas.)
The airstrip also serves the needs of the wider Gallon Jug community, including the ranch where efforts are being made to breed a strain of cattle more suited to the tropics, by cross-breeding with English Hereford bloodlines.
The lodge has been serving tourists since 1988. [1]
Winner of Condé Nast Johansen's award for "Most Excellent Lodge, México & Central America 2010 - 2011" [2]
References
- ↑ http://www.chanchich.com/history.html, accessed 26 Sept 2012
- ↑ http://www.johansens.com/belize/orange-walk-district/chan-chich-lodge, accessed 26 Sept 2012
