Night heron waiting for beetles!
Steps to our place, Lethem
Monkeys in the palms
Victoria amazonica
Victoria amazonica in a Rupununi pond
Into the jungle
Cowboy and anteater
anteater on the savanna
On the Rupununi by Cayman House
Our guides grandfather lives here, Cayman House
The Rupanuni is a gorgeous interior savanna surrounded by rain-forested mountains. It is home to the giant river otter, the black cayman and to the giant anteater. Slowly but surely the Guyanese government is declaring large parts of it protected and village owned ecolodges are being built. We visited Cayman House, a research station where black cayman studies are carried out and Karanambu Ranch where Diane McTurc began protecting the giant river otters. We watched the gorgeous Victoria Amazonica waterlily unfold; this is one of the few places where it is wild
Spinning cotton at Cayman House
Later we flew to Mabaruma, near the Venezuelan border
