Makouria Travel Guide

 grets Says:  Set within the grounds of the resort, the restaurant is the focus for all evening activities, although most people are in bed by 9pm. See detailed description of the dishes in the Local Customs section. 

 grets Says:  Mark has organised for the staff to put some wine on ice for us, what a pleasant chnge it makes from Beer.We enjoy a very nice Chilean Chardonnay, while Gerald plays wine waiter! 

 grets Says:  This is our last night together, and we make the most of it, eating and drinking until the wee early hours - well way past our nomal bed time at 9pm anyway! Some people have come here straight from the daytrip, and are rather dirty and smelly.Others have been back to the... 

 grets Says:  Although I normally don't have a sweet tooth, I must admit that my favourite dish at this place is the bread and butter pudding we have for dessert the first evening. Yummy! 

 grets Says:  Eddoe is grown and eaten a lot here in Guyana. I have seen it in Sainsbury's at home, but never tried cooking with it!Here, eddoe is served mashed, and it tastes a little like mashed potato. Very enjoyable. 

 grets Says:  One of the things I love about travel, is trying the local food. Here at Shanklands we are served a buffet which contains a lot of food that is unusal to us.Plantain with cheese. I have eaten plantain several times before, and these actually taste more like bananas than... 

 grets Says:  We encounter more mud. This time it is a thick gooey clay substance. The track looks completely and totally impassable. I would NEVER have attempted to drive along this track. It really is too much!Guess what? We get stuck! I take my hat off to four wheel drive vehicles in... 

 grets Says:  It really can't be much further now, surely? Things are going really quite well for a while - until we encounter another large tree across the road. The last two days they've had heavy winds and rain in this area, which has loosened the soil and brought many trees down. The... 

 grets Says:  At last we're on our way again, after getting back onto the track again from the undergrowth. But we're not out of the woods yet, so to speak!There is another tree blocking the road. This one must have been brought down by the passing truck, as it was not there a few hours... 

 grets Says:  This really is a single track road, but it doesn't matter, as there is no traffic here!Isn't there? We are unfortunate enough to meet a logging truck fill of wallaba wood which they use to make telegraph poles. OK! Where do we go?Either side of the track there is dense... 

 grets Says:  We continue on our way. The reason the one truck came this way from Shanklands this morning, was to ensure that the track was free of obstacles and passable to us!At one place, a tree had fallen across the road, so the crew from Shanklands had cleared a way through the... 

 grets Says:  Of course we get stuck in the mud! The other two trucks managed to driver through, we get stuck on a log that has been put in the track to "help". We rev the engine, and all that does is dig us a deeper hole. We spin on the log. We splatter mud everywhere. We get in deeper... 

 grets Says:  Every hour or so, we stop to take a break, to stretch our legs or use the "facilities". At one of the breaks, the drivers provide us with a little snack of chicken pasties. Drinks are always available, either water or soft drinks. Looking at Janet's face, hair style and... 

 grets Says:  In the next section the track is made from sticky brown mud, and again we silde about all over the place. The drivers blame the logging trucks for ruining the track with their enormous lorries. There are many large puddles to negotiate too, and it is quite amazing the angle... 

 grets Says:  The first part of the journey is along a track of soft sand. The vehicles travel at an amazing speed, and slide from side to side along the track. This really is great fun, especially following the other trucks, seeing them waltz along the track, like little ballerinas on...