Day 5

Today we had a lovely day, We took a long ride. All the way from the east coast (where Vick & Romona's house is) to the westcoast. Vick had to do some work over the bridge at the other side of Georgetown and decided to take us with him so we could see Guyana. We drove through all these little towns and it was great to see. Guyana is a very pretty country and the people are super nice and friendly. You can still see there has been a lot of Dutch influences here, like names of towns (Vreed & Hoop, De Willem en Uitvlugt) But also in advertising ed. you find a lot of dutch influences. Like a sign I saw "made in Holland" where they were talking about the flour that is made in Holland.
The route we took you can see on the map I made. It was a pretty cool drive. When we left Georgetown we had to go over a bridge to the other coast as they call it here. The bridge was some structure! It's a floating bridge made out of a zillion sort of panels floating on the water. Everyday at 14:30 the bridge closes for traffic and opens

so the ships can pass. And then 2 hours later it opens up again and cars can come over again. When we came all the way to Parika on the other side we went out of the car and went to the harbour. There is a little boat there and a big ferry who takes people over the Essequibo river to the little islands that are there. Parika is a really nice place, there was a little market going on and a lot of people are out on the street busy with sales and everything. We stopped here for lunch. We had some nice fried rice and a typical Guyanese drink that is called Sour sap (it does't taste sour at all though, it is very sweet haha, but very delicious). After this quick stop we continued our way to some other property Vick had to check, he felt a little sleepy in the car so we stopped to get some drinks and there were a bunch of little kids playing with plastic bottles, pretending like they had a piñata! How genius and inventive! They were so adorable.
On the way back after we checked out the property, we stopped at the seawall back in Georgetown. In Holland we have dikes protecting us, here they have the seawall. So nice to catch the breeze there and hang out and chill for a little bit!
When we came home we all were a little tired from the day so we rested a little bit. After that we wanted to go fishing at the seawall but

unfortunately for us it was ebb-tide and the water was too low. We did see some fisherman going for their catch and that was pretty cool. We also saw the red Scarlet Ibis birds Guyana is famous for so that was nice! Though we didn't catch any fish we spent the night BBQ-ing chicken and chilled and had a very relaxing night!