Surama Village
Surama
An eco-tourism village run by the Makushi community, with rainforest surrounding grassland. Stay in village huts and go birdwatching on foot with Indigenous guides.
Surama is a Makushi Indigenous village in northern Rupununi, set on a small patch of savannah surrounded by rainforest. Since the 1990s, the community has run its own eco-lodge, widely regarded as a model of community-based tourism in Guyana. Accommodation is in traditional thatched huts or wooden cabins. Village guides lead visitors on dawn birdwatching walks, night wildlife spotting, medicinal plant talks and village tours, and the income goes directly back to the community. Transfers from Annai airstrip or the roadside take about half an hour. Most visitors stay 2–3 nights and combine the trip with Surama Mountain and the Burro Burro River.
Opening hours
Per the lodge's itinerary
Nearby sights
- Surama Mountain
- Burro Burro River
- Rock View Lodge, Annai
- Iwokrama Canopy Walkway
- Rewa Eco-Lodge
- Karanambu Lodge
- Caiman House, Yupukari
- Iwokrama River Lodge & Turtle Mountain