By George! We’re in Georgetown!

We had a lie in this morning and didn’t get up until 10am. Aoife and Ben were at work but picked us up at lunchtime and we went to pay for our trip to the interior and then for lunch at the Oasis café. It is a new European café and we had a nice sandwich lunch. The cappuccino was good. Aoife and Ben went back to work and Sarah and I walked around Georgetown. It is a small city and a bit underdeveloped. There are open sewers and the traffic lights don’t work. Luckily the traffic is so jammed that no one can go fast enough to have a bad accident. Georgetown is rundown but there are some old colonial buildings, which we liked. We looked round the cathedral, and then past the town hall, high courts and parliament. On the way to the Botanical Gardens two schoolboys walked next to us using us as shields against other schoolboys across the road that were throwing stones. At the botanical gardens we saw manatees for the first time ever. We then went to the Walter Roth Anthropological Museum. This was free and had some interesting exhibits on Amerindian tribes in Guyana. We had Chinese takeaway at Aoife’s and then went to get the overnight bus in to the interior. The bus stop was situated at a bar! We met two English people, Fiona and James, who are doctors and were going to Lethem to work. The bus was meant to leave at 8pm but eventually left at 10pm. It made several stops in Georgetown and seemed to take hours to leave the city. The road got quite bumpy after a couple of hours and the journey took about 8 hours in total and was fairly uncomfortable. I slept one and off, but when I woke I checked the bus speedometer and saw we were hurtling through the jungle on a, luckily deserted dirt road at 100km/h in the mist. I stayed awake after that.