Baganara Island Resort Bartica

... guesthouse where an American PhD student and her boyfriend had been living for the past 5 months, researching the golden frog. She told us that the frogs are capable of moving about if their bit of the plant dries out, she had seen a male frog climb up with three tadpoles clinging onto his shoulders. When evening fell we watched clouds of swifts swirl and swoop over the falls, a spectacular sight. When we arrived at the guest house I was surprised to see Joy and Wilfred ...

... clothes (which isn't saying all that much) to meet the 7pm deadline for buying tickets. The performance didn't start until 8, but we thought we could hang out there, and perhaps buy something to eat, as we'd set out too early to eat beforehand. This turned out to be seriously over-optimistic; we bought tickets easily enough, but when we tried to go through into the venue we were shooed out by a large woman who told us in no uncertain terms that the doors wouldn't ...

Els writes:<br><br><br> We decided to leave further trips into the bush bush for Guyana as we particularly wanted to visit the Kaieteur falls there. So we took ourselves off to the bus station in search of a bus to Nieuw Nickerie, which lies at the very edge of Suriname on the Nickerie river opposite Guyana. There were lots of mini buses, all with shiny plastic covered seats and no space for luggage. We did not investigate whether any of ...

First thing today is to go to the Police office to book out the vehicle, it opens at 8 am but we had to wait until 8.30 before he had finished getting dressed. Once he opened it was just a case of copying the vehicle details into a ledger and then we could enter the ferry compound. To get in it was a double metal gate, but they only wanted to open one side and that was half blocked for us by an overhanging roof; that meant that they had to go to the out gates and open them and ...

In my fear of puking all the way down the Essiquibo river, I took the precaution of taking a motion sickness pill as it was going to be about an hour by bus from CPCE to Parika then an hour plus on the speedboats from Parika to Bartica. But I enjoyed every second of the journey. It wasn't like it was the first time that I was on a speedboat (I used to go on the small ones when we went up the Demerara River to visit my dad's family). These were much bigger and probably ...

Two weekends ago I traveled by speedboat to the interior town of Bartica. It is possible to arrive by car, however the condition of the road makes it a long and sometimes impossible (impassible?) journey. We drove an hour out of Georgetown to arrive at the "stelling", or boat launch area. After waiting for enough people to arrive, we boarded our "speedboat." I only say speedboat because that is what the locals call it. Sure, the ...

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 your correct address (or the one that you prefer to use) is not on both of these lists, let me know so I can change it. Or, if you have an address of someone I'm forgetting, I ...

Okay, so this is the first time I (Paul Watkins) have officially written in my own 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 she is doing as apposed to our last supervisor. We have had some other volunteers come to visit us and that has always ...

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 close to one of the best days of our lives when the downpour came yesterday :-) We've started our teaching practicums and they are going very well! Basically what happened was that it was broadcast on local TV ...

We're still alive and relatively well-hydrated. No sunburns yet but some are getting mosquito bit--no malaria on the coastline so no worries until tomorrow 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 two nurses, one a GNA member and the other ...