General

To avoid my first mistake of desinformation, let me bring down the facts on Guyana quickly just to provide the general outline. I am not going to put much hereby, but some, and the rest will follow later.

So:

Cooperative Republic of Guyana is located in the north of South America.

It has got border with Venezuela on the West, Suriname on the East and Brazil on the South.

The total area is about 215 000 square km.

The population amounts to 770 000.

Guyana is the only English-speaking country in South America

and the only state of Commonweath of National on mainland South America.

Further I could list more typical descriptions on climat, relief, wildlife, population, economy, politics. But I think there are some other sources which I might be copying by doing this, so

what I am going to do is just to name, enumerate and describe them.

I do hope that by developing this journal I would be able to pay enough attention to each piece of information gradually and stadily.

To get the basics all at one time the best sources would be:

Internet Sites:

1. Guyana in wikipedia or simply http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana

2. Tourism-oriented http://www.guyana-tourism.com/

There are the other sites but they provide more simple (thus, far) look on the country

However, I might turn to them as well in order to oversee the complete Guyana content in the web. But this will be the future.

Also there are some books which I managed to purchase while being in Guyana and still consult sometimes:

1. Bradt Travel Guide on Guyana, prepared by Kirk Smock

Published in 2007

This is considered to be the only guide in english dedicated solely to Guyana.

Indeed it is great! No other book encloses so much information and references about the country. If I could I would buy more, the thing is that I already do have one(.

2. Another useful book is a marvelous album called Guyana

edited by Arif Ali via Hansib Books
http://www.hansib-books.com/books/guyana.htm

This edition has lots of great pictures as well as basic information,

presentations and descriptions in various languages.

This is the beginning and I do hope there will be more since such a precious land can not stay unnoticed...