Rupununi Tourism

10/08/2017

07/03/2017

Important Travel Update

Travellers who are not vaccinated against yellow fever may be refused entry to the country.

08/12/2016

Special prices at the Iwokrama Canopy Walkway this month! Check it out!

http://iwokramacanopywalkway.com/december-2016-special/

26/09/2016

18/09/2016

Guyana is well represented this year at the American Birding Expo in Columbus Ohio. On hand are Andrea-Salvador de Caires from Wilderness Explorers, Gary Sway from Surama Ecolodge and Indranauth Haralsingh from the Guyana Tourism Authority.

We're at the 2nd Annual American Birding Expo this weekend in Columbus, Ohio. Andrea-Salvador de Caires are on hand along with Gary Sway from Surama Eco-Lodge and Indranauth Haralsingh from the Guyana Tourism Authority. Lots of great folks wanting to learn about Guyan and the incredible birding opportunities in our country's forests, savannahs, and coastlands!

24/12/2015

Sport fishing is conservation. Costa is on a mission to protect the world's waters by promoting sport fishing. This sport is environmentally friendly, sustai...

15/12/2015

I'm looking forward to getting back in the air and doing some more flying over Guyana! Presently in Georgetown, the capital which lies below sea level and defended from the ocean by a Dutch-built sea wall. It's tropical, very tropical here right now and I'm guessing even hotter than Hades. This...

21/09/2015

Indigenous Affairs Minister Sidney Allicock captivated the crowd yesterday at the Rupununi Arts and Music Festival with his grand entrance on a horse, whi

04/09/2015

04/09/2015

Visiting an Arawak Community in Guyana, South America by Karin-Marijke Vis. Check out why this guest post has made Guyana onto our bucket list.

04/09/2015

Rupununi River, Karanambu Lodge.

04/09/2015

The juice of the cassava is best extracted with a matapi!
Photo Annette Arjoon

04/09/2015

The always personable blunt-headed tree snake (Imantodes cenchoa). I photographed this individual a few years ago in Guyana.

13/06/2015

08/05/2015

30/04/2015

Check out the Outdoor Channel this Friday for "The Obsession of Carter Andrews" as he heads in to the wilds of Guyana and fishes for Arapaima at Rewa!

http://outdoorchannel.com/the-obsession-of-carter-andrews

13/04/2015

Extract from 3D/2D adventure series filmed in Guyana and Borneo for Discovery Channel to be broadcast Spring 2015. In this episode Monty and Leo prepare to explore…

04/02/2015

Great piece on the Canopy Walkway in this weekend's Sunday Times!

28/01/2015

Catching a jaguar on a remote camera trap in the Amazon is a rare, happy sight. But catching a jaguar attempting to ambush a herd of peccaries is quite simply astonishing.

28/01/2015

By teaching basic ecology field work techniques to indigenous groups in the Amazon, Stanford researchers find that satellite measurements of rainforests underestimate the region's carbon storage potential.

28/01/2015

28/01/2015

Pale-throated Three-toed Sloth (Bradypus tridactylus) perched in a cecropia tree near the Iwokrama International Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development Field Station during an Operation Wallacea expedition... This species spends nearly its entire life in the trees, sleeping 18 hours/day, feeding exclusively on leaves and coming to the ground only to defecate... Although sloth's are notoriously slow moving, an extremely flexible spine and binocular vision allows them to spot potential predators and mutualistic green algae growing between its guard hairs allow them blend in to the canopy... This individual briefly came into an opening while slowly working its way towards some tasty leaves and took a second to smile for the camera...