Guyana

Reisgids Guyana Bradt Travel Guide

Editie: 2 2011

South America"s often overlooked English-speaking country lies far off the well-trodden tourist path. Guyana is the ideal destination for the discerning visitor seeking adventure. Within its vast interior, the Guiana Shield (one of the four pristine tropical rainforests left in the world) converges with the Amazon Basin, creating a unique geography composed of coastal waters, mangroves, marshes, savannas, mountains and tropical rainforests.



Bordered by Venezuela, Brazil, Suriname and the Atlantic Ocean, the lively locals – a melting pot of East Ind...

Reisgids Guyane - Petit Futé

De Petit Futé is de Franstalige tegenhanger van de Engelstalige Lonely Planet. De Petit Futé is buitengewoon interessant voor landen waar geen andere gids voor beschikbaar is, met name dus voor de (franstalige) Afrikaanse landen, de Franse overzeese gebiedsdelen, de voormalige Franse koloniën en natuurlijk Frankrijk zelf. De Petit Futé bevat praktische reisinformatie (zoals hotels, eetgelegenheden, verplaatsingsmogelijkheden met het openbaar vervoer), maar ook een keur aan interessante bezienswaardigheden met uitleg en kaartmateriaal. De gids heeft - door het Franse ka...

Reisverhaal The Sly Company of People Who Care

A twenty-six-year-old Indian journalist decides to give up his job and travel to a country where he can 'escape the deadness of his life'. So he arrives in Guyana, a forgotten colonial society of raw, mesmerising beauty. From the beautiful, decaying wooden houses of Georgetown, through coastal sugarcane plantations, to the dark rainforest interior scavenged by diamond-hunters, he is absorbed by the fantastic possibilities of this place where the descendants of the enslaved and the indentured have made a new world.

But he is not just seduced by the country: he i...

Reisverhaal The Wild Coast - Travels on South America's Untamed Edge

In this compelling and elegant travel memoir, John Gimlette returns to Guyana, the Wild Coast in South America, to discover his ancestral colonial history - one of brutal, cruel and often uncomfortable truths. Intrigued by the tale of a distant ancestor who perished on the Wild Coast in 1630, John Gimlette returns to South America to find out what has become of this primeval land.

It is a journey that takes him through the old colonies of British, Dutch and French Guiana, through some of the most fantastic forests in the world and through four hundred years of ...