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The dining room, decorated with charts aegean marine and maps, has a wraparound deck but no electricity. If you dine here, the vegetables that are served are mostly grown on the island. The resort uses solar panels for some power and generators for compressing the tanks.

820-2004, www.belizezoo.org. It s open daily from 8 am to 5 pm, except aegean marine during major holidays. The entry fee is US $7.50 for foreigners. Your tour can be stretched out to a full day if you walk to the Tropical Education Center and spend time there also. The Tropical Education Center is across the road from the zoo and covers 84 acres of savanna. It has observation decks that can be used for bird watching, a labeled self-guided aegean marine trail, and an iguana breeding center. Here, you can sign up for a half-day guided canoe trip down the Sibun River or join the zookeepers for a night tour of the zoo.

Ambergris Art Gallery, aegean marine 226-2695, ambergrisart@btl.net, at the Sun Breeze Hotel, carries works from the best painters in Belize. Large paintings sell for US $2,500 or more. If you are an art connoisseur, this is a good place. I spent more than an hour here and could have stayed much longer. aegean marine They carry paintings by Eduardo Papo Alamilla, an exceptional painter who does realistic images of Belize. Papo has been painting since he was 16 and has developed an international reputation. Another painter featured at the gallery is Marcos Larios, originally from Guatemala. An admirer of Papo, Larios uses far more vivid colors than Papo and his scenes are busy. He has had exhibitions in California, New York, Chicago, aegean marine Arkansas, Colorado, Guatemala and Puerto Rico. Walter Castillo is from Nicaragua and his paintings are a bit more interpretive than those of the other two. Castillo likes to paint scenes about Maya, Creole and Garifuna people. He taught himself to paint, to read and write English and to play the guitar and drum. He has had exhibitions throughout Central aegean marine America, the United States, Europe and Asia.