Guyana Where and What 2023-2024 for website_compressed

Guyana’s 10 Administrative Regions
plain, with a small portion of the hilly
sand and clay region further inland.
The Heritage Museum at Kastev on
the West Coast of Demerara and well
worth a visit. One can overnight in
its breezy rooms facing the Atlantic
Ocean.
A drive over the Demerara Harbour
Bridge, once the longest floating
bridge in the world, built in 1978.
Activities abound for the visitors
in Region 4. The capital city,
Georgetown, is in this region. For
the anthropologists, the Walter
Roth Museum of Anthropology, the
Museum of Natural History, African
Heritage Museum, Indian Monument
Gardens, 1763 and 1823 monuments,
Victoria Law Courts and its statue of
Queen Victoria, the Public Buildings
and Trade Unionist Nathaniel
Critchlow statue in the foreground,
Stabroek Market, City Hall, Cenotaph
War Memorial, the busts of the leaders
of the Non-aligned Movement, St.
George’s Cathedral, our colonial style
State House where the President lives
and Prime Minister’s Residences, Red
House where Cheddi Jagan (Premier
1961-4) lived, the Umana Yana built in
1972 by the Wai Wai Indians with the
African Liberation Monument in the
forecourt.
The Seawall, Promenade and Botanical
Gardens, Castellani House, now an art
gallery where former President Forbes
Burnham lived from 1985 until his
death.
Birders can experience early morning
trips to the Botanical Gardens, the East
Coast Conservancy waterways and
sea shores, Mahaica River, East Bank
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