Blogs from Guyana, South America - page 2

Back to basic living again but the location is great it looks like it's been built in a small clearing in the forest surrounded by big trees and just 15 mins walk away there is a canopy walkway 100 feet above the forest, so we were up there with the parrots and the macaws. Most amazing thing is we have Internet, and a bathroom open to the stars. Today we have been on 2 walks before lunch seen spider monkeys and red howler monkeys. And more birds. ... read more

Two nights in the surama eco lodge. Quite basic but clean, must be because the frogs and cockroaches liked our room as well. First night i squashed a few second night i didn't bother. Some good walks and visited a school. The transport was simple but effective, big old rusty Bedford Truck with seating in the back. Trip to iwokarama, we stopped to see a harpy eagle nest, it was 45 mins walk from the road, and after a while staring up this big tree the chick returned, woowzas as fadia said loads. We are now at iwokarama river lodge, this is luxury after the eco lodge. Just finished a birding walk. After dinner we are out on the river with our touches looking for beasties, seems there should are some big black cayman in here. ... read more

In the cara lodge hotel Georgetown, beautiful old building staff really nice. First impressions of George town on the drive through last night is, it's not really the sort of place that you would go out walking about at night. But the location of the hotel is good and we had a good night's sleep. Breakfast was good loads of fruit for my holiday monster. We have met some of the rest of the group one German man and an older English couple, seems okay. Doing a city tour today meet with guide at high noon. ... read more

Our first stop will be in Georgetown,... read more

Tuesday 24th September 2013 Ahh, forgot to mention another frog/toad incident. So before I went on the Grass Pond adventure, I was tossing up wearing boots or just flip flops. I grabbed the shoe and knocked I against the windowsill expecting a spider to come out but instead it was just a little toad!! I left him there and opened up the windows more so he could jump out but he didn’t seem to want to move. When I came back from the adventure, I had just assumed he was gone. I went to bed with the mosquito coil on because there were a ton of bugs out. When I woke up this morning and made my bed, opened the windows, there was the little toad friend again, just sitting on the floor. I ... read more

Monday 16th September 2013 – halfway It’s a usual day back at work and it’s onto those projects I left behind from the first week of the trip. I head over into the room – which is already getting a little bit on the hot side – and get started on the work. I’m still attempting to build them a quote document which will make it easier to quote as well as being more consistent with pricing. All the bookings clerk will need to do is plug in the number of guests (or in their terms PAX), the number of nights they are staying and then yes or no to the 3 options of tours available. But due to some of their more complex/strange pricing, it is making it difficult to then divide between ... read more