Guyana collage

 

Ibike: Guyana (Guiana)

 

Cultural Tours in Guyana                    

Guyana: Many Peoples, Many Waters (extraordinary, nature and Amerindian cultural immersion bike and boat tour through Guyanese savannah, Amazon rainforest and river estuaries.)

Many Peoples, Many Waters Registration Information

Wakapoa Ada Mekeabo Workshop  ("Ada Mekeabo" is Arawak for wood work, hence Wakapoa Woodworking Workshop)

Guyana Bibliography

Clarifying "Guiana"
If you are a little confused by "Guiana," there were once three "Guiana's" in South America: British Guiana (now Guyana), Dutch Guiana (now Surinam) and French Guiana.  They are often confused with the three Guinea's in Africa: Guinea Bissau (former Portuguese colony), Guinea Conakry (former French colony) and Equatorial Guinea ( former Spanish colony).  To confuse matters more, there is Papua New Guinea in Asia.

The infamous Jonestown was in Guyana, but its only connection to anything Guyanese is geography.  The camp or settlement, of estranged Americans, was an very isolated outpost accessible only by small plane, 150, mostly uninhabited miles, from the capital.  There were no roads to it.  It had no political, economic, cultural, social, philosophical or religious connection to Guyana, so it falsely taints the country.  The "town" has now been reclaimed by the forest.

 

 

 


photo by Kevin Deame

Wakapoa Barbie doll chair
Wakapoa Woodworking Workshop also has doll furniture available for sale and export

 

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