The Guyana Zoo

So, on our second day of touring the city, and after walking by the rather interesting Georgetown prison with guards standing around with AKs and an equally interesting aroma coming from the prison, we stumbled upon the Botanical Gardens which contained the Georgetown Zoo. After paying the equivalent of 1 USD a piece, buying some water, and me receiving a napkin to wipe the sweat off of my face from the sweet lady working the entrance, we decided to see what this place had in store for us.

When first walking into the zoo, there was a display of various birds. The one I found to be most interesting was the very large, and very odd looking, Harpy Eagle. If you don’t know what this is, which I didn’t before seeing one at the zoo, look it up. It’s an incredibly interesting looking bird that is native to the rainforests in South America, but is apparently a very endangered species.

Next, or sometime after the birds, I got to see a real live anaconda. It was hard to tell how long it was as it was wrapped around a tree, but I would guess that it was maybe 10 to 15 feet. Again, I couldn’t really tell. Also, I would guess that it was about as big around as a regulation football.

The most entertaining of the bunch is what came next. The MONKEYS!!! Yes, I will freely admit, I probably could have stood there and watched the monkeys for the rest of the day and would have been perfectly content. I can’t remember what kind of monkeys I saw first, but they were awesome to watch. They were just hanging out, watching us, and climbing around inside their cage. The coolest monkey of the bunch was thoroughly enjoying his rope swing. He would just hang off of it and swing back and forth, over and over, then switch arms and repeat. I wish I had a video of this guy; he was awesome. Next to these monkeys, were the Capuchin monkeys. These guys were also awesome. It was rather entertaining to watch these little guys and gals eat on their mangos and just wander around. They weren’t quite as active as the other monkeys, but still very entertaining to watch in themselves.

After the monkeys, came the cats. Let’s see, there were cougars, which were in hiding when I first passed their cage, but they let the fact that they came back from Alpharetta be known when I was leaving the zoo. Also, there was a jaguar, a lioness, an ocelot, and something else that skips my mind right now, but I may come back and edit it in later.

So, that was the zoo, overall, it was well worth the 1 USD I spent. I may not have been able to see an anaconda otherwise, and those bars between the cougars and me made me feel much more secure than when making those dangerous treks through Alpharetta back in the States.

Next up, me getting free stuff at some drunken guy’s store.

-Michael