THE FACTS
Location: Guyana, S. America
Start point: Georgetown
Best time to visit: October-July
Activities: Jungle survival skills, then putting them to the test: a true adventure under your own steam
Tribe: Makushi Amerindians
Duration: 15 days
Guideline Price: From £1,600 (US$ 2,880)
ITINERARY IN BRIEF
Day 1: Meet in Georgetown, transfer to your hotel and start exploring!
Day 2: Lie in and get over the long flight. In the afternoon, take some basic lessons and briefings for the forthcoming survival adventure.
Day 3: Travel into the interior is by light aircraft or 4x4 Land Cruiser type vehicles. The time of year and weight of the rains dictate which method we take. If we go by Cruiser it will be late on the Sunday and we’ll travel overnight.
If by aircraft we’ll leave early on the Monday morning for the journey deep into the interior.
Here we load into 4x4 vehicles for the hour long drive to an Amerindian village. You’ll stay in the village eco-lodge and we’ll spend the day organizing all our gear for the coming jungle adventure.
We’ll also go through some basic lessons about the jungle, the type of things to expect and even introduce you to some of the local inhabitants – not the human kind either!
Day 4: Start training for life in the jungle! Important areas covered include:
• First Aid
• The jungle environment including the wildlife you might come across
• Keeping healthy, fit and avoiding heat injuries
• Packing kit so it is comfortable and waterproof
Days 5-10: Learn all the main skills of survival in the jungle including:
• Psychology
• Water
• Shelter
• Food
• Fire
During this phase you are in a base camp with basic facilities. Most days however, we will be out in the jungle or along the rivers. You will be sleeping in a hammock and helping organise your team’s food. This is a great way to practice your fire-lighting skills and get ready for ‘going solo’!
Days 11-12: The excitement begins! The training is over. Today you leave all your comforts behind you and head off on your own or with a buddy to your very own stretch of jungle to survive in.
With just your belt kit and recently learnt knowledge to help you, you will be given a series of tasks to complete, in order to survive and make yourself as comfortable as you can.
You will make your own shelter, fire, heater, mosquito repellent, scavenge and hunt food, find water and make ways to show the outside world and rescue parties where you are.
Accommodation and food is what you make/ provide for your self!!
Day 13: Your skills at making yourself found by ‘local rescue teams’ lets you leave the jungle and head back to an Amerindian community where we can wash off the trail, eat some fresh food, drink a few beers and swap stories of the last few days. You will be staying in the community eco-lodge.
Day 14: Today we will fly you to Kaieteur Falls. This is the tallest single drop waterfall in the World, five time higher than Niagara Falls. It is completely on its own in the jungle with virtually no man-made infrastructure around it. You will see the tiny Golden Frog which lives in the Giant Bromeliads at the top of the falls, each one 160 times more potent than Cocaine. You may also get chance to see the rare ‘Cock of the Rock’ bird, the male of which is bright orange in colour. And of course there will be plenty of chances to see the Falls from different places, including up close; close enough to touch the water even. Stay overnight in Georgetown and head out for your big final dinner.
Day 15: Please arrange your departure for today.
“This is a true survival adventure. Learning all the skills necessary to live in the jungle as the Amerindians do, you become equipped to go it alone. The survival instructor and local Amerindian hunters from the Makushi tribe take you through all you need to know – this is the real stuff, the way the Makushi Amerindians have done it for thousands of years.”
LOOK FORWARD TO
• Learning to live off the jungle as the Makushi Amerindians do and then put your new-found skills to the test.
• Get truly immersed into a Tarzan or Jane existence – this is a once in a lifetime experience
• Encounter a myriad of wildlife as you quietly get on with day to day life in the jungle
• Visit Kaieteur Falls the largest sing drop waterfall in the world
GETTING AROUND
Light aircraft, 4x4 vehicles, feet.
EATING AND SLEEPING
You will be in a hotel in Georgetown, the community eco-lodge with basic facilities, then hammocks and in shelters you build for yourselves before returning to the eco-lodge and then a hotel again in Georgetown. No meals are provided in Georgetown but we can recommend places ranging from hotel restaurants, smart coffee shops to basic but plentiful Brazilian BBQs. Once in the eco-lodge all meals will be provided and cooked for you. After this you will be able to practice all your new skills and live off the jungle!
