Bartica, Guyana Travel Blogs

Speedboating
Feb 27, 2007

... , with a bunch of friends (new friends to me). Very picturesque...see photos included! After a few drinks we returned to Bartica and went to another local hangout. Sunday is the day when everybody relaxes by the river; they listen to music, socialize, ...

Week 1 of Orientation over!
Aug 7, 2006 (17 photos)

... just roaming around everywhere...through the roads, on your front stoop, on the beach...just anywhere and everywhere. Also, the town of Bartica is known as "the gateway to the interior" because from the town you can get to any place within Guyana's inland. ...

Greetings from Guyana!
Aug 5, 2006 (10 photos)

... awesome. We also had some great group-bonding times at the local bar/restaurant :-) So today we traveled from Georgetown to Bartica...first took a 1 hour bus west to Parika, then got on the ferry for a 5 hour boatride down the Essiquibo River. Let me ...

Rain!
Aug 11, 2006 (6 photos)

Hey! So yesterday it rained and it was like Christmas. We had been having lack of water problems for a couple days and it was getting really rough since we didn't have much for showering, flushing toilets, laundry, drinking, etc. So I think it was ...

Bartica: Rainy Days, Bucket Ways, Rolling Hills an
Oct 3, 2007 (7 photos)

... vests and the water was calm. The only thing was that my butt was numb by the time the boats pulled into the stelling at Bartica.   I absolutely fell in love with Bartica. I had never been there before. In fact, I had no idea that it was on the ...

Life in Bartica
Aug 17, 2006

... travel log. Katie usually does a good job at updating our travel log, but we have been really busy lately. We have been in Guyana for almost six months now and things are going pretty well. We now have a new supervisor and she seems to really know what ...

kodak link for pictures
Aug 19, 2006

... ). Ok, I think that's finally all for now! take care, katie p.s. I didn't get to write in captions for the pictures, sorry. There are a bunch of our host family during training and some of Bartica. I will put up more pictures from training soon.

Teaching Pratice
Aug 25, 2007

About a week was spent in this interior town where kids came to "summer school" and we taught random lessons to familiarize ourselves with the kids and how teaching in Guyana works.  We learned it does not work.