I went back to Guyana in the Summer of 2005 to visit friends, work for the government and do some research for my univeristy dissertation. To see some more recent photos of Guyana, click here.



Jamie's Gap Year Website

I have finally, almost 12 months later than planned, put up a website with some of my photos from my year abroad in Guyana. Most of them were taken by my volunteer partner, Tobias Limperg, who secretly was a bit of a professional compared with me who never got over the 'point and shoot' syndrome.

Me and Tobias were sent to a small gold-mining community in the middle of the jungle and taught secondary school children aged from 11 to 18.

Boat on Shell Beach Port Kaituma Airstrip Teachers at Mabaruma School Chickens Amerindians collecting coconuts at Shell Beach Teenagers of Port Kaituma
Kaieteur Falls Falls Top on the Barama River Cleared Jungle St Georges Cathedral, Georgetown Canal Bank, Port Kaituma The High Court, Georgetown
Mashramani, Port Kaituma School Joel Forde and family Bourda Cricket Ground, Georgetown Matthew's Ridge Assimimi Savannah, near Kaituma Barama Logging Company
Small bat The Rupunnuni Christmas Celebrations, Uitvlugt Cockal found in Port Kaituma Cuffy's Monument, Georgetown Amerindian Fishing Hut, Waini River
Form One, Port Kaituma School Form Two, Port Kaituma School Dutch Fort, Fort Island Port Kaituma Primary School Greasy Pig Competition, Lethem Rodeo Horse and Cart, Georgetown
Jamie's Second Home Mahdia Compound Jamie in Port Kaituma Swamps Jamie teaching Moonrise over Mabaruma Jungle Painting a Keith Haring mural
Brownsberg National Park, Suriname Classrooms at Mabaruma Secondary School Panning for gold, Ten Miles Parrots at Mabaruma Market Abandoned Chicken Farm, Port Kaituma Practising the High Jump in the rain
Port Kaituma Secondary School Port Kaituma from the air Rainbow over Kaituma River Barge docked at Port Kaituma School Sports Team travelling along Kaituma River Lighthouse Baptist Church, Port Kaituma
Sebai Amerindian Reserve Stabroek Market, Georgetown Sunrise over Port Kaituma Boats at Wauna Creek Railway Line, Port Kaituma Children of Port Kaituma
Baby Jaguar Tobias and Joel Forde Tobias teaching Maths Tobias' Pet Turantula Jamie and Tobias' First House Turtles at Mabaruma Market
Dominoes Tobias entering Port Kaituma Compund Port Kaituma Waterfront Teachers marking Jamie and Tobias on the waterfront Two Form Five students
Bhojedat, Dacia and Kurt Port Kaituma Students Jamie travelling along the Kaituma Gold Mining Children Backball Dancing Masika and Kurt
Cowboy, Lethem Rodeo Me and Joel at Jonestown Me at Kaieteur Falls Me playing cricket, Port Kaituma Wooden Cathedral, Paramaribo Waterfall at Brownsberg, Suriname Travelling to Assimimi Savannah Gold Miner, Ten Miles Mashramani Celebrations

To view the old fundraising site, click here or if there are any problems or questions please email me. More information about Project Trust, the great charity that sent me to Port Kaituma, can be found on their website.

The other day, I got a bit bored so I made another photo website, this time of Sexy Croatia and other Eastern European countries. If you're bored too, check it out.

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© Jamie Wheeler