I M A Wanderer
Follow My Journey
  • Home
  • About Me
  • Blog
  • Bucket List
  • Photos
  • Video
  • Contact

Ban's Eco Tour

6/8/2015

0 Comments

 
I don't know how I was lucky enough to have happened upon Ban's diving 2 years ago, but the longer I stay here the better I feel about my decision to build my dive experience and career with such an excellent company. Ban's is the largest single diving operation in the world (if my sources are corect) and while founded by a foreigner, is now owned and run by a Thai woman...pretty incredible if you consider that women in this country are still supressed in many ways. The resort is also at least 70% self sufficient. They organically grow all of the fresh produce they serve in their restaurants. All shampoos, conditioners, soaps, and cleaning products they use are made by on-site chemists who use fermented fruits and other organic ingredients. They have a shop where electronics are serviced and fixed to be reused. They organize beach and reef clean ups and personally sort and recycle everything and send it to a recycling plant on the mainland.  They also collect the human waste from all over the island and use it to fertalize all of the non-edible vegitation around the resort...which makes the resort pretty smelly around 4:30-5:00 in the afternoon, but I'd rather put up with it here than in my oceans.  It's really a pretty spectacular operation, and I should know because I've taken the ECO tour of the resort not once, but twice.
It's just really nice to see a company work so hard to protect the environment around them, and in the process they are helping their own business operations....funny how that works.
Picture
Taking the Bans Eco tour
Picture
Hydro green houses...the organic vegtables grow faster than normal soil grown plants
Picture
Picture
Vegitation from around the resort is put through a shredder and put through a turning process to create a rich soil base for growing crops
Picture
Electronics andmechanical items are either repaired or reused.
Picture
Picture
Fermented fruits are used to create soaps and cleaners.
Picture
Picture
hanging gardens
Picture
Solar power
Picture
Human poo used for fertilizer....sounds gross, but this is a small island, where else is it supposed to go?
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Kristen is a travel enthusiast looking to share her journey with the world, and maybe even inspire people to take the leap themselves.

    Archives

    May 2016
    April 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    December 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    December 2014
    November 2014
    October 2014
    June 2014
    May 2014
    February 2014
    December 2013
    October 2013
    September 2013
    August 2013
    July 2013
    June 2013
    May 2013
    April 2013
    March 2013
    February 2013
    January 2013
    December 2012
    November 2012
    October 2012
    September 2012
    August 2012
    July 2012
    June 2012
    May 2012
    April 2012
    March 2012
    February 2012

    RSS Feed

Home  |  About Me  |  Blog  |  Bucket List  |  Photos  |  Contact