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- <text id=93CT1712>
- <title>
- Guyana--Travel
- </title>
- <history>
- Compact ALMANAC--CIA Factbook
- South America
- Guyana
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>CIA World Factbook</source>
- <hdr>
- Travel
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Customs, duties, and passage: Visas are required of Americans
- visiting Guyana. Travelers need a valid passport and a return
- ticket or proof of sufficient funds for onward passage. A yellow
- fever immunization is required of travelers coming from most
- African and Latin American countries, and polio, typhus,
- hepatitis, and malaria shots are recommended for travel to
- remote areas. Certain people in business and journalism require
- entry permits before arrival.
- </p>
- <p> Climate and clothing: Summer clothing, including the popular
- tieless shirt-jac, is worn year round in Georgetown. A light
- raincoat or umbrella is recommended in cool, rainy weather.
- </p>
- <p> Health: Doctors and hospital facilities in Georgetown are
- limited, and medical services throughout Guyana are inadequate.
- Malaria is endemic in some areas outside Georgetown. Drinking
- water should be boiled. Exposure to Dengue fever also is a
- potential health hazard.
- </p>
- <p> Currency: Guyana's currency is the Guyana dollar.
- </p>
- <p> Transportation: Although two-lane, paved roads connect
- Georgetown with Corriverton to the east and Linden to the south,
- many other roads do not meet modern standards. Traffic moves on
- the left. In Georgetown, buses are available some times but do
- not run regularly. Taxi service is usually available.
- </p>
- <p> Telecommunications: Telegraph service is available to the
- U.S. Telephone service is available in Georgetown, throughout
- the settled coastal area, and to a number of interior points.
- </p>
- <p> Tourist attractions: Kaieteur Falls, four times as high as
- Niagara, is located in thick jungle in the interior and is
- usually reached by small aircraft. In the southern savanna
- plains of the Rupununi, riding, hunting, fishing, and swimming
- are available at Manari. Excursions are difficult to arrange--leave them to local travel agents. Guyana is 2 hours ahead of
- eastern standard time and does not observe daylight saving time.
- </p>
- <p> National holidays: Local establishments and the U.S. Embassy
- are closed on the following Guyanese national holidays.
- </p>
- <p>New Years Day, January 1; Youman Nabi, early January*; Republic Day,
- February 23; Phagwah, early March*; Good Friday and Easter Monday,
- early spring*; Labor Day, May 1; Caribbean Day, July 5; Freedom Day,
- August 1; Eid al Alzha, early autumn*; Divali, mid-autumn*; Christmas,
- December 25; Boxing Day, December 26.
- </p>
- <p>*Dates varies; check ahead.
- </p>
- <p>Source: U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Public Affairs, May
- 1989.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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