(désolée mais pas de français cette fois)
How do the Guyanese spend X-mas? There is a BIG difference between Georgetown
and the rest of Guyana. Georgetown has a
population of about 250,000 with more than half Indo-Guyanese and the other
half African-Guyanese. There are many
different faiths. We left G/T on
December 22 and spent the X-mas week in the interior at Amerindian villages
(see our next blog posting) but we were in G/T long enough to see the hype of
X-mas just like in North America. It’s
buy, buy, buy. Santa Claus is there with
his sleigh; artificial trees and X-mas decorations are everywhere. X-mas carols on the radio and in the
stores. No different from Canada, except
there is no snow!! Guyanese spend X-mas
with their families; they prepare “black cake” (similar to our X-mas cake) and
have cook-up rice and pepper-pot (a type of beef stew) that they eat for breakfast. Gifts are exchanged.
In the Amerindian villages there is no hype. The community comes together on X-mas day for
a shared feast. Families visit each
other. We always just missed this in
our travels that week.
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| this photo says everything |
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| Santa is riding higher than the palm trees |
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| inside a shoe store; check out the shoes!! |
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