Authentic Amerindian Accommodations
| Features: Spotlessly clean, open, airy benabs with running water for showers and flushing toilets. Hand-washed sheets on ultra comfortable beds covered with fine-mesh mosquito netting. |
| Benefit: Guests have the opportunity to sleep restfully in an authentic Amerindian benab. Surrounded by walls for privacy, the benabs are open to the night sounds, allowing guests to hear the night sounds of the forest and savannah and feel the cool night breezes rustling the thatch roof overhead. |
Guided Hiking Trips and Multi-Day Jungle and River Trips
| Features: Guided trips are lead by local villagers who have a lifetime of knowledge about the surrounding forests. Our guides have years of experience leading groups. |
| Benefit: Our guests will receive the best information about the flora and fauna during their stay at Surama Village Eco-Lodge. Guests will have an enjoyable, safe and comfortable experience. |
Bird Watching
| Features: Surama Village Eco-Lodge has one of the pre-eminent bird guides in all Guyana on its staff. Over 500 species of birds, 72 species endemic to the Guianan Shield, are found in the forest adjacent to Surama Village Eco-Lodge. We are located at the convergence of the rain forest and the savannah. |
| Benefit: With so many different species available and outstanding guides on staff our guests’ chances of seeing birds on their life list are greatly increased. Our location, where the forest merges into the savannah, is the perfect place to see birds endemic to both habitats. |
- Jungle Survival Training
| Features: Surama Village Eco-Lodge partners with Bushmasters to deliver the finest jungle survival program in Guyana. |
| Benefit: Guests return from their training with skills, knowledge and experiences that are unavailable anywhere else. |
Wildlife Observation
| Features: Within the range of Surama Village are found healthy populations of Giant River Otters, Jaguar, Giant Anaconda, Tapir, Capybara and four species of monkeys. Our guides have a lifetime of observing and identifying the wildlife within these forests. |
| Benefit: Guests are very likely to observe the myriad animals they have come to see and photograph. |
Sport Fishing
| Features: The rivers surrounding Surama Village Eco-Lodge teem with more than 20 species of fish including the Giant Araipima and Piranha. Our guides are among the most knowledgeable in the Rupununi. They know when the waters are optimum for fishing and where the ‘big one’s’ are. |
| Benefit: Guests are assured the best opportunity that they will catch and release or catch and eat all the fish they want. |
- Village Tours and Cultural Events
| Features:
Authentic Amerindian village. Cultural events and celebrations performed by villagers in celebration of their heritage, holidays and spiritual beliefs…not as a show for the tourists. |
| Benefit: Guests who are fortunate to be in the village during these events have the opportunity to be totally immersed in the Macusi culture. |
- Amerindian Steam Bath and Massage
| Features: Relaxing, authentic steam bath and massage. |
| Benefit: After a long day of hiking or paddling guests can revel in the joy of an authentic steam bath and a massage to relax their tired muscles. |
We the Makushi people
We have arrived in present day after some 400 yrs of contact with the world outside ours, at a time when all peoples are aware of the ecological dangers of the style of resource consumption characteristic of western civilisation.
We have arrived in present day after some 400 yrs of contact with the world outside ours, at a time when all peoples are aware of the ecological dangers of the style of resource consumption characteristic of western civilisation.