Guyana Project

Mid-week during the project, the group will take a break and have a one-day excursion up the Essequibo River. The volunteers will visit “Fort Island,” which has two historical buildings that serve as museums for the history of Guyana. The museums outline the struggle between the Dutch, French, Spanish, and British to colonize this area in hopes of taking gold back to Europe. The history includes slave trading with African slaves. After a short stop on the island, the group will continue go upriver to another island that is the Aruwai Resort, where there is a swimming pool, beach volleyball, kayaks, paddle boats, a nice vegetarian lunch, and more.

At the end of the project, the group will also visit the famous Kaieteur Falls. Located on the Potaro River, in a section of the Amazon rainforest, Kaieteur Falls is the world’s largest single-drop waterfall. It is four times higher than Niagara Falls and about twice the height of Victoria Falls in southern Africa. The Potaro River eventually empties into the Essequibo River and ultimately the Caribbean Sea. Kaieteur Falls is located in the middle of the country, far from Georgetown. So volunteers will take a private flight from Georgetown to Kaieteur Falls and experience views and hikes in Kaieteur National Park before returning to Georgetown that evening.