Best Green Hotels: In The Cool Shade of Mangrove Tree
The Today Show is doing a week long series on "the Ends of the Earth" and managed to remind us of a cool eco-hotel, the Red Mangrove Inn in the Galapagos, this morning.
We have talked about this hotel before, but now it is time to add it to our Best Green Hotels map. Claudio Dominguez, who owns the inn, built the place in an environmentally conscious way to protect the wild mangrove trees surrounding the property. The inn is near Puerto Ayora, and the 12 rooms have built-in platform beds plus bathrooms that are almost carved into the indigenous rock.
While the hotel is not 5 star earth killing comfort, this place is far from roughing it. There is a sushi bar on-site, 4x4 trips are offered, surfing, scuba diving, and boat trips are also available via the hotel -- all with perfectly acceptable carbon footprints, of course.
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· The Ends of the Earth [Today Show]
[Photo: amanda.harmel/HotelChatter]
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