(30 May 2011)
AP Television
Near Tzukim, Arava Valley, Israel – 14 April 2011
1. Mid of children helping to build mud hut at “Desert Days” eco lodge
2. Wide of mud hut building
3. Mid of children helping build mud hut
4. Various of children preparing straw mixture
5. Wide of eco lodge, straw bales
6. Wide of solar panels on top of hut
7. Pan of eco lodge owners Rinat Bashan and Yair Bilensky walking from dining room to pool area
8. Close of grape vines, pan to volunteer preparing breakfast
9. Various of breakfast dishes
10. Wide of kitchen with Bashan and volunteers preparing breakfast
11. Wide of people seated at table, pan of dining hall and guests
12. Pan of Bashan taking fruit juice to guest
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Rinat Bashan, eco lodge owner:
“We came here to Tzukim from the centre of Israel. I’m from Haifa originally, Yair is from Tel Aviv. We were just city people and we came here and we started building everything slowly, slowly. We learned everything here, we didn’t know anything.”
14. Mid of Bashan and children during mud hut building activities
15. Tilt up from mud basin to English guest Alex Lezim with her daughter
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alex Lezim, guest from London:
“No television, we’ve been outdoors, swimming. It’s lovely, really, really lovely.”
17. Mid of children applying mud to walls
18. Wide of mud hut, detail of wall in foreground
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Yair Bilensky, Desert Days eco lodge owner:
“What we do, we dig the hut into the mountain. With the material that we take out from the mountain, we put for a net. Now, because we are in the desert, we have a lot of clay, which is our glue, in the material that we took from the mountain and we use it as a plaster. This is the layers on the hut.”
20. Mid of mud hut
21. Mid of volunteer Silvia Binto arranging guest room inside hut
22. Interior hut, pan to bathroom
23. Mid of Binto arranging curtains
24. Close up of soap inside bathroom
25. Close of composting eco toilet
26. Pan to Binto placing compost inside toilet
27. Mid of Binto washing her hands
28. SOUNDBITE (English) Silvia Binto, Eco lodge volunteer:
“When I arrived at night it was it was not zero degrees but maybe around five to ten degrees (Celsius, 41- 50 degrees Fahrenheit), and inside the hut you would not feel that. Inside the hut the temperature is very good. And now again that it’s during the day thirty degrees (Celsius, 86 degrees Fahrenheit) inside the hut it’s much fresher. So it works.”
29. Wide of volunteers preparing breakfast at dining hall kitchen
30. Wide of dining hall tilt down to orchard
31. Mid of water tilt up to orchard
32. SOUNDBITE (English) Rinat Bashan, Eco lodge owner:
“We use only ecological, natural soaps in the hut and in the dishes, when we wash dishes. So all the water just goes back to the earth. We put plants whenever the water comes from the huts and from the kitchen and that’s it. Very simple.”
33. Tilt down from straw thatch roof to guests at breakfast table
34. Mid pan left of guests having breakfast in dining hall
35. SOUNDBITE (English) Ziv Netzer, guest from Israel:
“We got used to the dirt and the mud very quickly and it’s fun. It’s fun, it’s different.”
36. Pan left of children inside dining hall
37. Wide of child entering pool area
38. Wide of children by pool
39. Various of donkeys eating oranges
40. Various of huts in desert
LEAD-IN:
An eco-village in the Negev Desert offers a unique kind of hospitality to ecologically-minded travellers.
Proving that it’s possible to ‘go green’ even in the desert, everything at the lodge is geared towards minimising the impact on the environment.
STORYLINE:
Everybody mucking in to build a mud hut at this eco-lodge in the Negev Desert in Israel.
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Post time: Jun-24-2017