Baganara Island Resort Bartica

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 ...

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, pigs, horses, goats, mules and chickens that were all free ranging over the road. In fact at one place a herd of cows had decided to lie down in the road and all the traffic had to get ...

- In the morning we did a bit more of the chores with a view to going to one of the celebrations in the afternoon. In the end when we got to the place where the celebration was to take place it had just finished, we had been told it went on until the evening. That meant nothing else to do today apart from fill up with water. You certainly need a good filter system for the water since it is contaminated in the ...

At last we have arrived in Georgetown and have made our way to the Pegasus Hotel (N6.49.30.97W58.09.38.90) on the sea front. On arrival we checked with the management and they are happy for us to stay in the guarded car park for a few days, they were especially good about it since it is the premier hotel in Guyana and they did not even insist we eat there. That said the food was very good. Our first priority is ...

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 ...