Guyana is among the smaller countries of South America. It has an Atlantic Ocean coastline and borders Suriname, Venezuela and Brazil. The name Guyana means “Land of many waters” and Guyana has many rivers. The game of cricket is a national obsession in Guyana. The Roraima and Tepuis mountains were the inspiration for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous novel “The Lost World”. | ![]() |
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John Goldhawk The Barbados to Georgetown flight went low over the brochure-blue Caribbean Sea, studded here and there with brilliant white cruise ships. Approaching Guyana on the South American...