German visitors enthralled with Guyana’s natural beauty

- first cruise ship for 2010

Georgetown - GINA, Monday, March 15, 2010

Government’s programmes to promote Guyana as a viable and new tourism destination have seen more interest from visitors in Europe, North and South America and the Caribbean. The most recent show of interest came from German tourists who joined a cruise that originated in Brazil.

The Vistamar, an Italian cruise ship carrying German tourists docked at the Guyana National Shipping Corporation’s (GNSC’s) wharf on March 11 and was greeted by steelpan music. On board the four-deck ship were 241 passengers and 110 crew members.


Tourists disembarking the Vista Mar, to take an evening stroll around georgetown.

Dagron tours, operating out of its offices on Main Street organized to have Guyana as part of the cruise ship’s schedule. The 12-day tour started on March 4 and the ship docked in Guyana after visiting Brazil and then went on to Tobago, Grenada and Martiniqe after which the passengers will return to Germany on March 16.

The passengers whose first visit it is to Guyana, stepped off the ship to music from a steel pan orchestra as the enjoyed their initial view of Guyana and gave their impression of the country during a tour of the City.


The Vista Mar on the docks at GNSC wharf, steelpaN musicians in the foreground.

The tourists were given the opportunity to see much of Guyana’s Capital City, Georgetown, as they were taken on a city tour in special Coaster Buses. They visited the Parliament Buildings, the 1763 Monument, the Umana Yana, the Walter Roth Museum and the Botanical Gardens where they expressed delight and were very interested in the natural flora and fauna.


Seehafer, tourist on the Vista Mar

“It was just beautiful and we got a little souvenir here and it was just lovely, just great here. I mean a lot of things seem to be going on here and we saw the presidential palace, and the museum and all the schools and different churches so you must have a lot of denominations here in your town and this park is the highlight so far… Actually we wanted to stay in the Caribbean but unfortunately we have to return home but we definitely plan to come back during the fall of this year”.


Raphael Ades, tourist on the Vista Mar

“Starting our tour and they love it, they are very interested they love the nature part of it, like the gardens, they love seeing the harpy eagle and the parrots and the comments up to now are excellent”.


Rubberdt Gryta, tourist on the Vista Mar

“We feel very much welcomed, very warmly with wonderful music from a steel band and everybody is very kind and we can walk free through the city and yesterday evening we didn’t have any problem, everybody was kind, helped us to find out way back to the ship and it’s wonderful to see all of the flowers of the garden city, to see the zoo with all the animals, I think they are at home in Guyana… I am very much interested in nature and we have seen some pictures of the highlands and the savannahs and they must be beautiful”.


Sinnecker, tourist on the Vista Mar

“Very interesting, very different from what we have seen in Europe but I travelled a lot in foreign countries so I am not too surprised… I am interested in rainforest so everybody interested in rainforest knows what Guyana means.”


Dorothea Schmidt, tourist on the Vista Mar

“We feel very interested about the culture and what the people made before and the Indian people especially here… the people are very friendly, we went to the market here and everywhere we went people were all waving and were very happy to see us”.


Jan Michels, tourist on the Vista Mar

“For me this is a really interesting country and I am a biologist so I am mainly interested in the wildlife of Guyana and this is really amazing, the wildlife we can see here.

Unfortunately we stay only in the city but also the city is very interesting with its great history with all the different buildings from the former times and I really enjoy it. I like it… I have heard much about it, especially about the wildlife and one day I would like to come here for some weeks and I would like to spend some time in the rainforest and search for certain animals. I am very interested in the freshwater turtle, fauna of Guyana and I would love to come back and spend some more time”.

Reference Source - GINA, Monday, March 15, 2010

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