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The highway to Georgetown

We arrived in Guyana, today and headed straight for Georgetown. Guyana is a weird looking country. Oh, and everyone speaks English.

First of all, just about all of the buildings are on stilts, and most of them are sporting some pretty trippy designs/colours. All these houses look more or less the same, and they all line the highway (almost) constantly along the 200km stretch to Georgetown.

Secondly, there is livestock ALL over the highway. I have seen my fare share of cattle on the road, but not like this. People with small homes and no land own farm animals, and leave them to wander all over the road since they’ve seriously got nowhere else to put them. Ridiculous.

Thirdly, there are these really weird boxy cars here. When we first arrived literally EVERYONE was driving them. They look like pretty crappy construction and I can only assume they are super cheap. Maybe a build-your-own kinda deal?

Anyways, we lucked out by meeting a very helpful and lovely chap who took us for lunch and got us a sweet deal on accomodation. So, I am going back to enjoying my lavish digs now.