Country Info
- Georgetown
- Capital
- Guyana Dollar (GYD)
- Currency
- 697,181
- Population
- GY
- Country Code
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Travel Blogs from Guyana
Guyana Red Cross Society
Today we met with the Secretary General of the Guyana Red Cross Society, Dorothy Fraser and the President of the Rotary Club of Georgetown, Anna Lisa Phang, to discuss the status of the Rotary Project with the Children's Convalescent Home. The ...
Fast cars slow banks
... and it instils fear into the passangers at the time, whom are mainly Brazilian gold diggers.....there is plenty of gold in Guyana and Brazilian companies. There are also women who go there; they are also gold diggers but of a different variety. ...
All at sea!
Third day and it is our 1st at sea. Just 90 miles off the coast of Venezuela and still rocking and rolling! To be honest I quite liked being rocked to sleep and the constant movement in bed is quite comforting in a child like way. Only ...
kodak link for pictures
Hello Everybody, Just wanted to let you know that I put some pictures up on the Kodak website, so if you get an email from Kodak, it's not an advertisement, it's from us! Also, I just updated some of the addresses on here and on the kodak list, so if ...
CANOPY WALK AND GOODBYES
At 5 AM we got up and had breakfast and were driven numerous miles away to a Rainforest Canopy Walk, actually totally installed in 31 days by 3 skilled Canadians. The swaying walk connecting the trees was often about 100 feet above the ...
Poor goat
On bus 8 hour bus ride to Guyana I was propositioned by a hooker, accused of being a government agent and I saved a pregnant goats life that had been hit by a car. A good days work. The day before I finally got into the jungle and saw a huge number of ...
Longest boatride ever
... . The pictures didn't really come out. Anyway we got to the mouth of the Esquibbo (or something) river in Guyana, then had another day's journey up the river to Bartica. Bartica is interesting, with donkeys and bulls roaming the streets, ...
Arrived Safely
... of our hostess, Rotarian Dorothy Poole with the Rotary Club of Napean Kanata, who has offered us accommodations at her home here in Guyana. It is a lovely old colonel home filled with many memories of an era gone by. Dorothy is most ...
BIG TRIP SATURDAY
WOW!! In less than a half hour this morning I spent over $1000, US.......ouch!! On Saturday i will start a trip to two major falls-Kaietur being one of them - and then I go to the Iwokrama Rainforest for a 3 day 2 night Greenheart ...
University of Guyana
This afternoon we had the opportunity to meet Tabatha Mallampati, Director of the School of Nursing at the University of Guyana. We were invited to participate in the 3rd year nursing student's presentation (29 students) of their various research ...
WIPEOUT!!!!
The day started well enough with a lovely breakfast and I said goodbye to Surama as I was motorcycled, daypack backpack and all, 8 kilometers away to Surama Junction with the road connecting Georgetown in the north with Lethem in the south, on the ...
IWOKRAMA RAINFOREST
Part Three, consisted of flying from Ordinuik Falls to an airstrip in the Iwokrama Rainforest. This time a kind old gentleman traded seats with me and he found out how cramped I had been in the back. We flew at about 140 miles per hour, ...
Guyana
... . T&T is on the fast track to becoming a first world nation by 2020 with a straightforward plan called '2020'. Conversely, Guyana looks like it is going nowhere fast with its poor infrastructure and very impoverished people. The sad part is that there ...
Archer Home
Every Easter Monday is kite flying day in Guyana, at the National Park and on the Seawall. It is a public holiday and there was a feeling of excitement and celebration. This morning my hostess, Dorothy Poole, and I visited the "Archer Home", a 25 bed ...
GEORGETOWN...YOU LOOK GOOD TO ME!!
Awakened at 4 AM, hopped into a Toyota minibus, my head an inch from the ceiling going down 400 kms of hard packed clay with zillions of potholes at 80 to 110 kms per hour, swerving from side to side , stopping at ferry crossings, 4 to 5 police ...
A pretty cool place
From the Guyanese border we put into this small van bound for Georgetown, We had in mind a nice bus which is easy to sleep on, But not here. It was the only transport so we had no choice we believed it once we saw this town named Lethem. We jumped in ...
New Year in Georgetown... Crazy place
... the minibus, in full view of everyone! A couple of hours in and we got to the border of Iwokrama Rain Forest. Guyana is the most heavily forested country in the world and the whole interior is completely heaving with Malaria, Yellow Fever and Dengue ...