Essequibo River Tour in Guyana

Pick up in the environs of Georgetown and transfer across the Demerara Harbor Bridge and onwards to the Essequibo River and Roed-en-Rust, where you will board a boat for departure. The first stop is Fort Island the best-kept Dutch ruins in the country. As the original estates upriver became less fertile the Dutch Commander decided to follow the estates that were moving downriver for the more fertile alluvial mud near the coast and built a fort to provide security. It was also the headquarters for the court of policy a church and a slave market. Started as a wooden building in 1726 and converted to brick in 1743 it replaced the first capital upriver at Kyk-oer Al in 1739.

We will re-board our boat to continue to Sloth Island for lunch and sightseeing. We can explore the Island.

After lunch, we continue to the mining town of Bartica where we can make a brief stop on the new boardwalk to have a cold beer before continuing into the Mazuruni River to Kyk-Over-Al, the ruins of the first Dutch stronghold and capital which guarded the junction of the Mazaruni, Cuyuni and the much larger Essequibo River. Its name refers to the fact that from the fort you can see over all the rivers and could not be snuck up on by a ship from the ocean.

We then continue to visit Baracara Falls where you can do a little swimming.

Return to Roed-en-Rust to join your vehicles for transfer back to Georgetown.

Please note rate is subject to change on the Suriname section as it is anticipated that the government will implement a Value Added Tax in 2018.