Guyana
When
Sept to Nov | Feb-March
Price
From 3 800€ excl. flights
(based on 2 people sharing)
How long
6 nights
Ideal length
The Rupununi savanna, in Guyana's remote south on the Brazilian border, offers a landscape radically different from the rainforest covering the rest of the country: grasslands stretching to the horizon, dotted with giant anteaters, armadillos, and cattle herds managed for generations by Amerindian ranchers on horseback. The region, one of the least populated and least visited in South America, remains accessible almost exclusively by light aircraft.
The Rupununi's ranches, some active for over a century, are run by Macushi and Wapishana Amerindian communities using extensive livestock-raising methods suited to the savanna climate. A stay at one of these family ranches allows guests to take part in daily activities, from rounding up cattle on horseback to meals prepared using traditional recipes.
4x4 or horseback safaris at dawn and dusk, when wildlife is most active, allow sightings of giant anteaters that can measure up to two metres long, giant armadillos, and, more rarely, jaguars that sometimes cross the tracks at daybreak. Nearby wetlands also attract hoatzins and scarlet ibis, in a landscape that evokes the African savanna more than the neighbouring Amazon.
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Karanambu Lodge
A historic family lodge on the banks of the Rupununi River, famous for its giant otter rehabilitation programme, simple rooms in an exceptional setting.
Rock View Lodge
A lodge surrounded by orchards and gardens, run by an Anglo-Amerindian family settled in the region for generations, a base for excursions into the surrounding savanna.
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