Arawak

... private hospitals, tour health centres, and visit majestic Kaieteur Falls. We also boated up a blackwater creek to an Arawak Amerindian village, meeting the village healthcare worker who also weaves baskets. We met lovely, dedicated people and toured ...

There are so many things I could say about the Arawak Beach Inn.  I guess I should start with what I realized in the end, which is that it isn't about the place you stay, it's about the people you meet.  I wasn't expecting to travel so ...

Today we took a powerboat across the Demerara River to Kumuni Creek and an hour later pulled up at the Arawak Amerindian village of Santa Mission Reservation. Lovely, undeveloped village with beautiful Amerindian children in their British-inspired school ...

... so even now there are many words in Garifuna culture that are only spoken by the women. This is a direct link to the original Arawak women. There is one road in and out of the village the rest is grass ways. There are a right mix of nicely painted, ...

... ; I have not one but three offers for dinner that evening, but decide to stick with my original plan of dining at the Arawak.   The next day the entire Arawak group ends up meeting up on the other end of Shoal Bay, mostly by ...

... the rocks to spot impending storms. There were shaded areas where you can picnic. There's restroom too. We saw the Arawak Indian petroglyph drawings on the rocks that have been preserved and protected by the government. The peculiar rock formations ...

... to the Garifuna culture and it was really interesting. The roots of this culture are actually South America.  Arawak Indians began their migration into the Caribbean islands from the Orinoco River Delta in present day Venezuela in ...

... the hi-rise hotel area near our hotel.  We head out to have a light lunch at Salt and Pepper's at the Arawak Center. The restaurant serves a lot of tapas and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner; all reasonably priced. We eat outside as usual and ...

... is a shopping mall, some street retail vendors, and casinos. We continue to head to the hi-rise hotel area where the Arawak Center is alive with people and music. Arawak Center houses some restaurants; all of which provide indoor/outdoor seating. It is ...

... and oil refining now make up most of Aruba's economy. --Islanders speak Papiamento (a combination of English, Portuguese, Spanish, Dutch, Arawak, and languages from Africa) After the lecture, Paul and I took our books up to the Lotus Pool ...

... , and tons of interesting restaurants. With all the stores closed, we decided to walk towards the Fish Fry area. This is Arawak Cay. Fish Fry is the nickname of Arawak Cay because there are dozens of shanties selling fresh off the Cay fish sandwiches. ...

... ’s what the Garifuna are, a people of mostly African appearance, formerly called ‘Caribs’, who speak an Arawak language.  Apparently they were already a combination of Arawak and Carib even before the arrival of Africans, maybe one ...

... touched including stuff he'd collected from patients bodies. Another day over breakfasti had a look on the tourist map and saw the Arawak stone carvings highlighted as a tourist attraction, I got on a 2.50ec bus to Mesopotamia, which is a cool place name ...