Guyana Where and What 2023-2024 for website_compressed

Guyana’s 10 Administrative Regions
birding sites, Mangrove tours, market
day experiences in Georgetown and
East Coast Demerara.
On the Linden highway, a number of
Creeks and resort facilities are located
– Jubilee Resort & Amusement Park,
3V’s Resort, Pandama Retreat, Marudi
Creek & Resort, Splashmins Fun Park,
Aziza Akousa Nature Resort Creek,
Umbrella Resort, Red Water Creek,
Hauraruni Creek, Madewini Gardens
Resort, Takatu Creek, Yarrowkabra
Creek. St. Cuthberts Mission can also
be accessed from the Linden Highway.
Going down the Demerara River
and turning into the Kamuni Creek
is the village of Newtown, where
the Chinese first settled on arrival in
Guyana followed by the indigenous
village of Santa Mission and further
down the Arrowpoint Nature Resort.
Guyana’s history offers the visitor an
interesting mixture that is reflective of
European architecture.
It is advisable to take some time off
and drive around our ‘garden city’ to
experience some of our old colonial
buildings that were constructed in
wood, standing elegantly alongside
new and modern concrete structures.
In some cases they are being dwarfed
by these new edifices. Take a visit
inside some of them, if time and
access is permissible.
Harpy Eagle
by Nathan Chinapen
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African Liberation Monument is
located in the foreground of the
Umana Yana (burnt down in 2014
and since rebuilt)). The monument
consists of 5 polished greenheart logs
encased in a jasper stand on a granite
boulder. This monument was unveiled
by former President Linden Forbes
Sampson Burnham on ‘Namibia Day’,
26th August, 1974 in honour of all the
thousands who have struggled for
freedom from human bondage.
City Hall
This majestic building of ‘Disneylike
feature’ is an exquisite example
of colonial architecture. Of special
attraction is the tower at the front of
the building. The architect was Dr.
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