Kaieteur Falls is the crown jewel, the hidden gem, the off the beaten path, the undiscovered wonder of Guyana and any other travel writing cliché you could think of. I liken it to the Angkor Wat of the country as like the Angkor Wat Temples in Cambodia, the Guyanese are extremely proud of their majestic waterfall.
You would think that obtaining a tour to Kaieteur would be easy. It is simple to book a tour, but it can be actually tricky to go on the tour. Tours routinely get cancelled if not enough tourists sign up. If you wait until the last day in Guyana to book a tour and it gets canceled, too bad so sad, and you will miss the second most amazing waterfall in the world as named by the World Waterfall database.
For more Kaieteur Falls pictures and videos see my photo essay.
I lucked out getting hooked up with a tour, and if it was not for leaving the interior of Guyana a day early, I would have been SOL. I arrived in Guyana on a Saturday, and I inquired about Kaieteur tours on Sunday. I had already booked a flight into Annai for Monday. The lady at my hotel said no tours on Sunday, but there would be a tour on Friday when I returned.
