Yes, total waste of money. I even went to the supermarket yesterday to buy a bugspray.

I am in the Amazon rainforest. And yet, not a bug to be found!

Turns out these sundew plants are all over this area. They are carnivores. They trap all the insects and eat them up!!

This is clean water flowing – and yet it has that brownish color. The locals said it is all about the colors from the sediments and leaves in the rainforest the water picks up. Some suggest iron. Has to be some minerals – but cannot be just iron – I have not seen any stains left anywhere.

There are website that suggest that the water in Guyana has a lot of tannins – the same stuff that makes your red wine red.

Cheers, I guess?

Our hike started by crossing the runway!! Have you ever crossed a runway by foot? Do you look left, right and then left again? I am reminded of Wile E. Coyote in the Disney cartoons. Nothing to see as far as the eyes can go and moment he steps his foot on to the road, gets run over by the Roadrunner!!

I get to be one of them today!!

We sped past the edge of the waterfall to align to the runway. We are in luck. We can alight!!

We are still in the plane. This is how majestic it looked from the aerial view.

As seen from the single prop plane on our way to the Kaieteur Falls

As far as the eyes go, it is just green and green. You can see how the mountains have vertical cliffs – looking like tables. But they are wrapped all around with green, verdant trees. In fact, the only break in the green canopy are the rivers that flow like silver ribbons thru the green carpet.

It is actually a floating bridge and opens up to let large ships pass. Built in 1978, it was designed to last ten years. It is still operational today although a new, modern one is being built next to it.

The grey building with the pool visible is the hotel I am staying in.