Country Info
- Georgetown
- Capital
- Guyana Dollar (GYD)
- Currency
- 697,181
- Population
- GY
- Country Code
Georgetown Slideshow
Top Hotels in Georgetown
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Cara Suites Georgetown
8 reviews -
Le Meridien Guyana Pegasus Georgetown
88 reviews -
Cara Lodge Hotel Georgetown
28 reviews
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Regency Suites Hotel Georgetown
7 reviews
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Tower Hotel Georgetown
14 reviews -
Buddy's International Hotel Georgetown
16 reviews
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Friends Hotel Georgetown
2 reviews -
Herdmanston Lodge Georgetown
54 reviews
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Roraima Residence Inn Georgetown
5 reviews
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Sleepin International Hotel Georgetown
13 reviews
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The Eldorado Inn Georgetown
14 reviews
Georgetown
Travel Blogs from Georgetown, Guyana
Last of the Guianas!!
... seemed quite lively and I was getting lots of looks and car beeping at me. After walking down a pretty long avenue, I spot the Georgetown cricket club. Looks nothing like you see on TV and strange to think Test matches are played there, but still, I ...
This is a top pick! 
The Local Bar Scene
... me, I am now going to be co-facilitating the national youth aids conference that is going on in December. The neat thing about Guyana is that I get the opportunity to work on these awesome projects, and I am doing this one with someone else that is only ...
The 2nd Georgetown in 2 months
I arrived in Georgetown Guyana at 9:30pm and was greeted at arrivals by Leeann who is a PhD student working here under Linda Peake from York. She was kind enough to come and meet me at the airport and has also assisted me by answering my hundreds of ...
An action packed Sunday
... day of the weekend. There was a football match going on in the day, so we were off to Bourda Stadium to watch the game, Guyana won 3-2 against Trinidad & Tobago. It was so neat to be in the stadium, they love their football here. At the end of the game ...
Phagwah
... mixed with water and sprayed at me through a super soaker. Our first stop of the day was a 40 minute drive from Georgetown across the Demerara Harbour bridge to a rural community temple where women and children were dressed in beautiful Saris and men ...
First Weekend
... Ocean and hung out on the seawall. We were called to another party and I walked in and I think every white person in Guyana was present, it was pretty funny. It was a farewell party for someone who worked for the Canadain Commission. Met someone from ...
Six days shy of 3 years abroad...
... The following day I got the opportunity to join a group of women in a community about 20 minutes outside of Georgetown. Red Thread is trying to establish Community Outreach Groups for survivors of domestic violence in different regions of the ...
Kaieteur Falls; Oh my God!
... . We got back on the Friday afternoon and were due to fly to Caracas in Venezuela on Sunday. We spent Saturday exploring parts of Georgetown that we had not yet seen and discovered that many people live in very nice houses indeed. We also paid a last ...
Guyanese Channa Masala
Leeann and I have decided to go on a one week diet to cleanse ourselves of the sugar and alcohol cravings which have consumed the last 3 weeks of our life (for some reason we have been unable to stop ourselves from partaking in such activities as eating ...
Another weekend in Georgetown
... recognize me, instead of the conductor yelling "white girl" from the bus, the yell "D'urban" which is my stop. I am discovering Georgetown has a small town mentality, I may not know the people here, but everyone knows me, and everyone knows what I do, so ...
Kumuni Creek, Arawak village
... not. Either way, I'll take my parrots home-grown or rescued, not poached.) Crazy place, but very beautiful outside of Georgetown, which we have all seen enough of despite its colonial tropical charms and crazy minibuses and taxis driving without any ...
Leaving Guyana
... , arrived an hour later after being awakened by Otis. Now an hour late to the airport, and with VERY FEW flights out of Guyana per day, we were pulled over at a checkpoint manned by Guyanese soldiers wielding AK-47s. I wanted a picture, but the other ...
Arrived in Guyana
Arrived in Guyana very tired and was met by our IT/ComputerGenius intern Alam and the project driver. Headed to Georgetown, about 45 minutes away. I was put up at a rather well protected hotel, which apparently used to be the Russian ...
Mettem/Metagee
As promised, here is the recipe for another Afro-Guyanese dish. It is called Mettem or Metagee, and can be served with fried fish, or just on its own. Ingredients: -eddo -cassava (yucca) -sweet potato -plantain -coconut milk -tomatoes ...
Arrive tour public hospital
... Center of U of G at reception last night--really great Caribbean/Indian food and plum juice. Learning a lot and getting ideas! Georgetown Public Hospital does 500 deliveries/month!!! Darlene and I dropped our jaws at that, also 10% C/S rate to our ...
Kaieteur Falls
Well I am wasting no time jumping on the tourist bandwagon here in Guyana. This weekend, myself and 9 other Canadians hopped on a 16 seater plane and flew into the Amazon rainforest. We went to visit Kaieteur National Park which has the tallest free ...
Youth Network Camp is in Dire Need of Your Help!
... me at mishkabobala@hotmail.com. Members of the Guyanese diaspora in Canada can make sure your donations reach us in Guyana. Visit Guyana and volunteer to be a camp facilitator this August, or volunteer your time with the Literacy Program! Because I ...
Funding, a cold, broken computers...
... the beginning of the month) that she would rather I focused my research on urban issues since I have spent most of my time in Georgetown, rather than to try to tie the Mazaruni trip into an area of focus for my thesis. Either way, I would be happy ...
Day to Day
... walk outside at night alone and only carry a small amount of cash on me whenever I go somewhere in the day. As for Georgetown... it is a crumbling colonial capital (and I am surprised to see that all of the colonial structures are wooden and not stone ...
Getting Settled In
Hey Everyone Well I am here and still kicking! It has been a whirl wind of activity ever since I have gotten here. The flight was ok, didn't sleep much, but it was only 8.5 hours so I can't complain. My apartment is bigger than some of the places ...
Stricken with
... of group toured a girls orphanage and reported it was heart-rending. I {heart} Imodium! That and good old Coca Cola, bottled in Georgetown, got me through the day lying in my sultry room and throwing up in the sink because I couldn't make it down the ...
greatness in guyana
As my plane landed at the Cheddi Jagan international Airport in Georgetown,Guyana as i started to disembark the plane it hit me, a burst of wonderful heat, hotter than a volcano. I cleared customs quickly without any trouble. I collected my luggage and ...
Cookup
... , Indo-Guyanese, Afro-Guyanese, Amerindian and Chinese, have spread the cuisines of their ancestral countries of origin throughout Guyana. It seems that Guyanese people overall, both eat and prepare cuisines from all groups, but the foods remain linked to ...
Georgetown, Guyana
Georgetown is Guyana's largest city. I stayed at the Le Meridien Pegasus and the staff service was amazing. They went out of their way to make me feel confortable. Too bad I couldn't see the city at night, the only free time I had, because unfortunately ...
The Last Two Weeks
... was recorded. It was awesome though, I was beaming afterwards. This weekend was Guyexpo, it is a trade show showcasing everything Guyana makes. It was cool, went there on Friday night, there was live entertainment on a stage, a big beer garden and ...
March 19th Mothers' March
... 8217;s intentions and hard work, the march almost didn’t go off. As I mentioned in a previous post, Guyana and specifically Georgetown has inadequate drainage systems for the amount of yearly rainfall. It has rained almost every day ...
Week One at Friendship Secondary Complete!
... /exhausting/daunting/inspiring all in one. We (all WorldTeach volunteers) were warned that the first week of school in Guyana was usually a little bit hectic, as teachers and the HeadMaster were probably still trying to figure out the Time Table, or ...
Georgetown Calling
... , and charged only the regular flat rate of 400 Guyana dollars (about £1.20). Of course, our main aim in visiting Guyana was not to see Georgetown but to visit the interior, and in particular the Kaieteur falls. More of this next time. Language lesson: ...
dolce and guyana
... Guyana. a heavily forested country. i travelled through the amerindian villages in the south, through the dense jungle to georgetown. Guyana is bursting with different cultures and thats what makes it so interesting. its rough, edgy and exciting and ...