Santa Elena, Venezuela. A base from which to organise trips to Mount Roraima and Salto Angel (Angel Falls), the two topmost highlights of Venezuela that don’t involve you having to travel anywhere remotely close to its deadly capital, Caracas. If you’ve seen Pixar’s film UP, you’ll have seen the table top mountains that border Venezuela […]
In the early hours of the morning, after the finale of the Rupununi Festival, we boarded the Georgetown-Lethem minibus with Amos to complete and bring to a close our incredible Guyanese chapter. Eager to make our way to Venezuela before dark, we spent virtually no time in Lethem and, upon arrival, hopped in a taxi […]
We have been travelling around South America for 5 months now, and there are a few things I couldn’t imagine travelling without again. I hadn’t used any of these items before the trip but they have quickly become my travel essentials. 1. LUSH Shampoo Bar Such a wonderful concept! A dry shampoo bar (held in […]
‘Why don’t you stay and help me out now?’ I explained that as much as I wanted to, we had already made plans to make our way down to Dadanawa ranch the very next day. But Bob insisted, bribing us with free accommodation and food, and even threw in a free beer if we made […]
The saddest part about travelling is having to say goodbye to beautiful places filled with beautiful people. It was time to leave Guyana’s bizarre, manic capital once again – southbound. We headed to Guyana’s ‘Iwokrama Canopy Walkway’ on the Georgetown – Lethem bus – a horribly bumpy 11 hour journey throughout the night on a […]
After only having to wait an extra hour than planned for our boatman (Guyana timing) we set off for Pamela’s landing in our taxi with newly purchased petrol and mixer, stopping off to pick up two teenage boys who may or may not have been Johnny’s sons. The taxi driver’s car was hardly suited for […]
One of my favourite things about travelling is meeting new people who recommend you places to visit – and it’s always a real bonus when the place, whatever it may be, is not listed in your guidebook.Our Couchsurfing host advised us to visit the small Amerindian village, Moruca, otherwise known as Santa Rosa, based on […]
We crossed the border and jumped in a taxi to Corriverton, the nearest town to the border crossing. After telling our taxi driver our intention to shop around for the cheapest place to stay in the town, he replied saying ‘When you shop around, you get all your stuff taken’. He drove us to the […]
The problem with Suriname is that if you want to visit a particular region of the country but no one lives there, it’s virtually impossible to get there by yourself. Whilst hopping from hostels Zus and Zo and Twenty4, we spent hours trying to plan a shoestring trip to the Central Suriname Nature Reserve from […]
With our newly purchased Spiderman hammocks packed, we headed off to Brownsberg, a popular nature reserve in Suriname. The local bus took us the 2 hour journey to Brownsweg, (£1.50 to go 100km!). From Brownsweg most people organise transport up the 13.5km uphill, rocky, windy, dirt road to the Brownsberg plateau. We asked a few […]
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