During our first day in Guyana we flew over part of the disputed area with Venezuela in a small plane. Part of the trip the pilot wanted to show us a prized possession to the Guyanese. Kaieteur Falls would be part of Venezuela if Chavez has his way. Here is a 1:30 video of the falls and I have several more behind the scenes video I will post in the next day. Hope you enjoy this amazing site!

From the time the pilot tells us we have reached the Guyana coast, I can tell things here are different. A blackness envelopes the land like nothing I have seen before. At least when you cross an ocean, the reflection from the moon can sometimes bounce off of the mighty waters thousands of miles below.

In this case, no illumination whatsoever. I see nothing.I am told we are crossing over the jungle and for that matter, almost all of this once British colony consists of rain forest jungle. I don’t even realize we have reached the capital city of Georgetown until the wheels touch down on a hard landing. The airport reminds me of Maui’s back in the early 1980s before tourism took the island. The door opens and humidity fills the cabin and as I step out onto the stairway that leads me to the tarmac, the ground has been recently washed with a thick tropical rain.

Getting here to cover this story, which I will explain in the coming days, was no easy task. First, as you may have heard, the Venezuelan Government had been threatening to throw us out of the country. What the hard-liners didn’t know, was that we had already booked tickets and finished our reporting. So, at 6am we were of to the airport for what would become a very long day. Keep Reading …