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Chan Chich has the ambiance,
furnishings and gentility of an English officer's outpost in the jungle
of a strange, but beguilingly exotic new world.
Perhaps Chan
Chich comes by that ambiance honestly. The Lodge itself is
located within the plaza of an ancient Mayan ruin.
And, the land
on which the lodge is located was once part of the property of Belize
Estates Company, a British-owned timbering and logging operation that
owned about 1/5 of what was then British Honduras.
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Chan Chich Jungle Lodge is now part of almost 250,000 acres of
tropical forest under special management and protection by The Programme for Belize (steward of the Rio Bravo lands north of Chan
Chich) and the Gallon Jug Estate, both carved out of the former
Belize Estates Company ownings.
(Gallon Jug Estate
was named in 1943 by logging foreman Austin Felix who found three
old gallon jugs at the site of a new high bush logging camp
established in the area.)
.jpg) Birding is one of the primary activities at Chan Chich, which has
the distinction of having the highest Christmas bird count in
Belize and the fifth highest in Central America.
Chan Chich has also
been recognized as "Wilderness Retreat of the Year" by
Andrew Harper's prestigious "Hideaway Report" and has been
featured in recent issues of both Conde Naste and National
Geographic Traveler magazines.
Chan Chich boasts a 9-mile trail system
that passes through several distinct forest
 subcategories of the general subtropical moist forest designation as the Chan
Chich forest is scientifically
categorized.
Other activities
include driving and
bird watching tours to other parts of
the extensive Gallon Jug Estate, as
well as night walks and night drives,
horseback riding, canoeing and exploring the many unexcavated
Mayan sites in the area. (An extensive
Maya site lies just off the Blue Creek Road, about a mile
from Gallon Jug - - a nice horseback
ride from the Lodge.)
Upper
price tier.
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