Guyana (2018)
Guyana is the country my husband’s family is from, and we went in 2018 on a trip to take his mother back to see her childhood home, school, city.
Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America, and one that is often confused in conversation by Ghana in West Africa. This beautiful country contains many of the same flora and fauna as the Brazilian Amazon - in fact it has one of the largest unspoiled rainforests in South America- and calls the Atlantic Ocean as a border. A mix on Indigenous, African, Indian and Chinese peoples, colonized by the Dutch and then the British and gained independence in 1966, it is a country with amazing food, wildlife, and people, and a complicated history.
Favorite memories:
Seeing my MIL’s elementary school and childhood home in Georgetown.
Eating delicious West Indian food.
Taking a tiny prop plane over the bush from Georgetown to Kaieteur Falls (pictured above) - one of the most powerful single drop waterfalls in the world - 4x the height of Niagara and 2x higher than Victoria Falls.
Seeing river manatees in a park in Georgetown.
Going on a river tour of the Essequibo River in search of sloths (which we didn’t see…)
Knowing we were in a country where the jaguar is queen. (I’m a lover of all cats.)
Walking on foot all around Georgetown, from the big central market to the side streets and everywhere in between.
