Guyana Travel Blogs

The Mini Bus
Sep 21, 2006

This is pretty much one of the most fun things to do in Guyana on a daily basis. This is their form of public transit. There are no bus stops, you just stand on the side of the road and flag one down. On the outside the bus just looks like an old VW van ...

Trip to New Amsterdam
Jul 12, 2006 (20 photos)

New Amsterdam is East along the coast from Georgetown. Our project works at the hospitals and clinics there and I went with Alam to get acquainted with hospitals and staff. It was an interesting car ride along a decent paved road, but the drivers are ...

Jah Man...arrival in Guyana
Mar 3, 2006

... I will be assisted by four youth volunteers from the Guyana Red Cross and other youth groups as well as employees from the Guyana National Blood Transfusion Service (the Blood Bank), as well as the Blood Safety Officer from the Guyana CDC. We have a great ...

Almost October
Sep 29, 2006 (5 photos)

As the first month of teaching at Friendship comes to a close, I can honestly say that it is still going very well and that I do love teaching the students here. However, I have never been so exhausted in my whole entire life, and I cannot even begin to ...

Receptions
May 19, 2006 (2 photos)

... with trip to Kaieteur Falls in the "hinterlands" as the interior is referred to here. Last night reception with Guyana Nurses Association--same story, different continent. One of the nurses performed a skit that was basically a conversation between ...

Iguana Story
Sep 29, 2006 (4 photos)

Hi again from the Caribbean! I'm actually going to take this time and space to tell a story that happened about a month ago, but that I haven't had time to write about until now. So it was around the end of August, and it was a pretty normal Saturday ...

Rodeo in Lethem and Back to School for Final Term
Apr 28, 2007 (11 photos)

... hammock at the Field Station and go on hikes and tours during the day. Another really neat thing is that Guyana has established a non-profit institution, The Iwokrama International Centre for Rain Forest Conservation and Development, to make sure that the ...

An English speaking country - how strange!
Dec 28, 2007 (3 photos)

We arrived quite late to Georgetown and checked into a cute guesthouse called Rima before heading over the road for a quick beer before bed (always got to try the local beers as soon as possible). We met the owner of the bar and he gave us a quick ...

almost done?!?!
Jul 2, 2007 (9 photos)

There are less than 3 weeks left of my time here in Guyana, which is incredibly difficult to fathom. I don't really feel ready to leave, as I've come to really love living and teaching here and I finally feel that I've really adapted to life in this ...

Birthday in Guyana
Nov 21, 2006

... for karaoke night, then some friends came back to our place and just chilled there until way too late. Saturday I celebrated my birthday Guyana style. I just hung out with Annika and Jackie during the day, it was low key day, and it was great. The two ...

The Zoo
Feb 22, 2007 (4 photos)

I went to the zoo the other day. It is a small zoo attached to the botanical gardens-the same place where I saw the manatees. The majority of the animals are birds: parrots, macaws, cranes, and even a few eagles (you can see the photo of me with a very ...

Weekend adventures
Mar 7, 2006

... at the zoo.....we'll see. The other noteworthy event from dinner was that I didn't understand about half of what went on. I know I said Guyana is an English speaking country, which it is. But, here in da Caribbean ma, we be talkin lik dis an rel fas ma ...

Jonestown!--ok, not there yet
Jan 27, 2007 (7 photos)

It has been about two weeks and I am officially known around town as White Rasta.  Ok, so I might be exaggerating a little.  Things are going well and I am gearing up for a week in a smaller town.  New Amsterdam is the capital of the county ...

Election
Aug 28, 2006 (15 photos)

On Monday August elections were held in Guyana. I was posted as an international observer with OAS for polling stations up the coast from Georgetown. It was a very interesting experience. Elections are held every 5 years and there is much political ...

Into the badlands of Georgetown
Sep 8, 2007

... We were eventually towed out by a passing minibus before driving on to the edge of the mighty and fast-flowing Essequibo river. The word 'Guyana' is apparently an Amerindian term meaning 'land of many waters', and it is easy to see why as any map shows an ...

Thanksgiving in Guyana
Oct 10, 2006

... it was an awesome night, everyone was happy to be able to have a taste of home. I am happy I was able to get that weekend to rest and recoop, the week has only just begun here, there seems to be a very valid reasons to party every night in Guyana!

Another week gone
Dec 4, 2006

The week was pretty slow, I am trying to recall what I did, and the only thing that is coming to memory is my weekly Wednesday bar trip with Jackie. Last week was a fish shop. It was really nice, didn't smell like fish, not so crowded and we were able ...

A little Creolese
Feb 3, 2007 (5 photos)

So here is a quick post showing a little bit of how the Creolese language spoken here translates into "normal English." This is probably why the first couple weeks of school I said "what?!" to my students at least a thousand times. After you get the hang ...

People we meet along the way
Feb 13, 2007 (11 photos)

In my brief time here in Guyana, I have run into a few characters and interesting situations.  Please allow me just a few lines to describe my encounters and those Guyanese whose paths have crossed with mine.   Due to my appearance, I ...

Kaieteur Falls
Sep 24, 2006 (17 photos)

Day trip to Kaieteur Falls with all the Canadian interns in Georgetown.  It is supposedly the worlds tallest 'single drop' waterfall in the world.  A quick google search will reveal the the tourism authority made up that statistic.  But ...

keepin' on keepin' on
Oct 14, 2006 (8 photos)

... somebody calling at me like a thousand times that they would stop. but no. they don't stop. I hate it. Everything else about Guyana is good, but man, i hate that. On a more positive note, there is a guava tree in my backyard and the pineapples here are ...

Back At It -- Term 2
Jan 22, 2007 (3 photos)

... to home over Christmas. It's definitely great to be back in Guyana, although the first day or so was pretty rough, and I was wondering if Guyana had always been like this, or if I had just forgotten a lot in the 3 short weeks I was home. I think I've come ...

My Apartment
Jul 13, 2006 (8 photos)

Thought I would put up some pictures of where I am living. Rent is fairly high in Georgetown, especially for foreigners. I have a suite in a decent sized house. It has air conditioning which is great. Electricity is very expensive but I got the ...

Week One at Friendship Secondary Complete!
Sep 9, 2006 (4 photos)

... /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 ...

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

... in our group of WorldTeach volunteers, and they are all so friendly and awesome it is unbelievable :-) And the country of Guyana is just AMAZING. The people are extremely friendly and the landscape is absolutely gorgeous. So our first five days here we ...

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 ...

Stage 1 of our Journey South
Jun 21, 2005 (4 photos)

... of our journey to Santa Elena. Our first stop was Puerto Ordaz, a city which makes up half of the urban package of Ciudad Guyana (with San Felix making up the other half), a mere 12 hour bus journey away, and about half way between Caracas and Santa Elena ...

New Nickerie to Georgetown
Oct 19, 2006

Shoks man!!!

To Border with Suriname
Mar 13, 2009 (8 photos)

We set of this morning to go along the East Coast; this area was a bit different although well built up. Some areas were very clean and modern whilst others were very dirty and run down. We had to fight on the road to get some space along with the cows, ...

To an Amerindian village
Mar 8, 2009 (18 photos)

Well we did manage to get up in time and got the taxi at 6, he drove us some 50 kms to get to the town of Parika, en route we had a new experience of crossing a pontoon bridge. This bridge is about 200 meters wide and is even more unusual in that at one ...