On the bus leaving Lethem. Goods being loaded up and a chance to run to the shop to buy bananas for the trip.
Motorbike between seats at the back.
A puncture stop. This is Guyana's main road connecting Georgetown to the border town of Lethem. By bus, it takes 14 hours to cover the less than 500 km stretch.
Madonna. Alton's childhood friend who owns the shop and hammock shelter for waiting bus passengers at Surama junction.
Walking the six km from the junction to Surama village, passing through forest and by cows.
Surama village, in a grassy savanna, surrounded by forests and mountains.
A typical house, with living quarters upstairs and a semi-open storage area on the ground floor.
Surama resource centre, with an internet connection, used for the eco-tourism bookings and the village administration.
A house on the edge of the forest.
The Cabral's house. I was recommended to stay with them by Alton from Moco Moco, who used to spend his childhood summers here looking after his grandparents cows, and who was a family friend.
Typical of the area- corrugated iron roof, bright colours, verandah, croton and hibiscus bushes and a well.
Eating with four of the six Cabral children and a friend. We had lots of rice, chicken, mandioc fried with egg, while parents were in Georgetown.
Vasco on his Dad's bike inside the village bar and disco area, where I had my hammock slung up. Ricardo, the father, was part north-Brazilian and named two of his boys after Brazilian football teams- Vasco and Flamengo.
Children from the house next door, collecting water from the Cabral well.
The Cabral daughters, dressed fashionably, who guided me through the forest to the top in the rain.
Trees in the mist.
Lush forest on the way back down.
Having a laugh and posing for photos in the forest.
Embracing a tree which was growing over rocks by the river.
Wild plums, also known as caja in Brazil. Collected from the forest floor under a single tree. We got there before the monkeys.
Palm tree fruit. The thin flesh was edible as was a kernel-sized nut in a tough shell.
Large trunk and liana monkey ladders.
The verandah with its hammock, a good place to relax.
Lisa and boyfriend Greg on a village path.
Lisa had a bowl with jamoon fruit in it, picked from a tree down the path, which she was eating with salt.
Sunset with an eagle flying over the hills. This is an incredible area for bird-life, having a mix of forest, savanna, rivers and lakes, which support hundreds of species.
