Buddy's International Hotel Georgetown

Els writes:<br>Having spent a few days in Georgetown we were ready for a spot more jungle. As it is impossible to visit the Falls under your own steam, we booked a 5-day overland tour, leaving on Monday, 19th October. We were picked up at 6.30 am and spent day one in a by now familiar way: cramped on the back seat of a jeep driven by Frank, the owner of Rainforest Tours, for 8 hours. In the front was Kurt, our 22 year old personal guide, in the back with us was Richard, a ...

Peter writes:<br>After the anxiety and trouble we had entering French Guyane and Suriname, Guyana turned out to be a piece of cake. We asked our hotel in Niew Nickerie to book us onto the minibus to South Drain (not a contender for the most charming name in the world). This turned up on time, already carrying three women, two Dutch and one Surinamese, who were off to stay with relatives in Guyana. The road to South Drain was in excellent condition, apart from a few ...

- 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 ...

... are plenty of spaces, but how would he find them? This isn't Gringotenango or Khao San or Freak Street with cheap hotels lining the streets as far as the eye can see. Where I stayed is as close to a hostel as there is, but no one's there, just a few locals... and me. The prices double for Carnaval. More and more I see other travelers less and less. That's what happens when you go to hard-to-get-to locations. Everybody and his brother go to ...

... that I had been single-handedly trying to throttle into shape. This was on Thursday. As part of the Anniversary celebration, old teachers and students were invited to the school so the administration wanted to the library in order so as to create the illusion that the school had a library that its students had been utilizing all along. The fact that no one lifted a finger to do anything for the sake of the students who desperately need a library but instead ...

... 2 or 3 students who are eager to soak up everything that comes their way. I've had some funny experiences too. I was dressed one day like I would to go to work in NY: in Old Navy stretch dress pants with a striped collared shirt tucked completely in. I received strange looks all day long, but when I was trying to teach the final session of the day, I figured that the girls were staring at my pants because my fly must be as open as the Essiquibo River. It wasn ...

The journey promised to be long and rough when we finally set off at midnight. It got a little easier when a handful of people got off in the middle of the night, affording us a little more room to stretch out in. The road surface, although unpaved, was generally fairly smooth though, and we managed to get some sleep before being woken up at dawn on the edge of the Iwokrama rainforest - a huge protected area of pristine jungle - because we had got ...

... than in any other type of forest, or that the Jaguar (native to Guyana) is an endangered species. But in the end, their projects turned out so amazingly well, and I was seriously so proud of them I almost cried. So here is a quick rundown of interesting happenings within the last month: ** Sunday, March 4th was a national ...

... pudding," pronounced without the "g." Black pudding is a local specialty available only on Fridays and Saturdays. It is spiced and seasoned rice stuffed into cow intestine to make what is essentially a rice sausage. There is also "white pudding". The main difference is...blood. No joke, it's a kosher paradise. The rice in black pudding is seasoned with cow's blood, while the white pudding has no blood. I tried black pudding ...

... you, or stopping to pick up or drop off people in a way that you do not like, let them know. Hand signals work, but the most effective way is to yell at them. Again, make sure your vehicle is either larger or faster than theirs. I have still not seen a working stoplight. Communicating: As I may have told you before, Guyana is the only English speaking country in South America. In general ...