SURROUNDED by mountains and nestled snugly in the North Rupununi, Region 9, is the Surama Eco-Lodge situated 84 metres above sea level. The life of the people there is in the art and understanding of how to live with nature by adopting a simple and basic way of life, according to the laws of nature.
The Surama village is a small Amerindian community of the Makushi people who use their resources to craft arrows, blowpipes and hammocks for sale at the gift shop, while offering an excellent array of culinary dishes.
The community-based eco-tourism experience in the Guianan Shield is committed to providing safe, comfortable and hospitable service to all guests. Tourists sleep peacefully in authentic Amerindian benabs, with low walls, open to the night and to the sounds of the forest and savannah.
Within the village there are masons, carpenters , tour guides, drivers, mechanics, forest rangers, cooks, boat captains, welders, I.T. persons, fishers and men and women who fashion
beautiful craft pieces.
Adventure-seekers can stay in the Surama Eco-lodge, which provides simple and comfortable accommodation with shared facilities and excellent meals prepared from local produce.
This isolated and idyllic location offers an escape from the concrete jungle that is the city, to a serene and peaceful existence with nature.
Dawn hikes across the savannah and up the Surama Mountain reveal droplets of dew dripping like diamond splinters from the green foliage and a multitude of colourful birds and fantastic landscapes.
The beginning of Surama started in 1974, when R.F Allicock and T.V Allicock invited a group of friends from Kwatamang and Wowetta to join four families in Surama, to organise a proper village system which will allow better management of the natural resources, including the people. The village started with 86 adults and children. This was the beginning of present-day Surama, located 6KM from the main road to the capital city.
The village covers five square miles of savannah, surrounded by forest, hills and mountains of the Pakaraima mountain range. The population is now almost 300.
The word Surama, originally “Shuramata”, means the place of spoiled Bar-B-Que. This was derived from a decades-old tribal conflict between the Makushis and the Caribs.
The community is now a premier, community-based eco-tourist site that offers bird-watching and sport-fishing. There are over 500 species of birds in the area, and the wildlife population includes giant river otters, jaguars, giant anacondas, tapirs, capybaras and four species of monkeys. Surama also provides jungle-survival training, guided jungle and river trips and cultural village tours.
So if you want to get away from it all for a few days, why not visit Surama for a refreshing sojourn close to mother nature?
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