THIS IS GUYANA - Rupununi Off The Beaten Path

All right this is pretty exciting. It's going to be about a four-hour round trip. We have to hike and then get on a small river boat but hopefully we'll have a harpy eagle at the end of it. Good morning, welcome back to Guyana. We're about to jump on this boat in the Rupinani river and head down for three hours, hopefully spotting some wildlife. There's a chance of seeing giant river otters, lots of birds and I don't know we're going to see what we find. I'm going to head on now. It's only about seven in the morning so we've got a lot of time to fill this video. Let's go. Bye-bye. Black caiman is bigging. We already captured this caiman before in the river. That was a beautiful start and we just arrived to our next destination. We didn't get any giant otters but that's the way it goes. Sometimes we did get some black caiman though which is really cool to see. They can grow up to four meters so like 12-13 foot in length. I didn't see one quite that big but that's huge if you think about it. Really cool to see them like that. We're now being met and heading to a mountain inn. Right, check it out. We've got a proper truck to head into our next place. Okay and this is Charles who just met us and we're off. Right. How are you doing up there? I don't know how to get down to be honest. I got you flying or surfing anyway. Riding the wave. We just arrived with this. Jenny got on top and I was just filming him surfing in to here which is pretty cool. This is where we're spending the night at the mountain inn. I'll flash up the name of everything we're doing. That's cool. It's lunchtime. We're doing some other pretty interesting stuff here as well but first lunch. We are walking to our guest house and that's taking all my luggage out. You know like in hotels where you get a trolley car? That's our luggage trolley car up to the hotel room. Alright, check it out. This is our space for the night. We've got this room with I mean a pretty incredible view the way around. I love it when you get to places like this that you've never particularly heard of coming to this part of Guyana and yet you know you can have a guest house with this incredible view all around. A really cool character welcoming my scene and something else pretty cool we're gonna get to this afternoon as well. A little bit tired. You can probably see in my eyes because we woke up at like 5am this morning and that boat ride was a few hours in the sun but we're gonna chill for a bit now, have some lunch and then enjoy the rest of this area. Next up we're heading out on the Jolly Otter. Hey man. We've got a little boat to go along the river and with a brilliant pun name which obviously I appreciate. And of course we're on a boat so we've got a beer. Cheers again. Alright so this is our second time of seeing, well second chance of seeing giant river otters. They said they saw them here yesterday morning and yesterday afternoon. They're quite common but you know still maybe we will, maybe we won't, hopefully we do. How you doing there lads? All good? Yeah I had to escape the heat so I'm down here. Awesome. We've just set off again and pulled over to the side of the road because we just saw a caiman. Not a black caiman but another type of one and we're on the way to a place called Sarima Lodge but seeing what wildlife we can find on the way. We actually went out for a hike this and I don't know if you can see if it's red there but I got bitten by a bullet ant and if you know what that is it's incredibly painful. Apparently it's going to hurt like this for a day or so but yeah I just felt like a big ant, literally about that big and then went and like stroked it off but it bit me on the way. So yeah I've also got a few bites on my face but that's that's what the jungle can do, whatever, it is what it is. Right let's go see what wildlife we can find, nothing that will bite me I hope. We're now walking for about half an hour into the jungle to look for the cock of the rock. It's a bright orange bird that you might have seen before but we're going to try and find it. This is it. So right now we're looking out at the rock, bright orange bird, this is the male version and it stops just here so we can get some good shots of it. That was pretty cool, we just found the cock of the rock or as I like to call it Dwayne Johnson's We've just arrived to Surama Lodge, it's a community run lodge so actually the local village, the community here run it and then decide what the profits are going to be used on which is pretty cool you know for either building up something in the village, repairs or something new or some cool kind of eco project, they all pool the money together and then vote on what it will be put towards. Let me show you my room. So this is it here, my room is this one and yeah pretty nice with a view out to the savannah. Oh check out this, it's huge, what is it? It's a rhinoceros beetle. Rhinoceros beetle, did you see that? I've seen it before in Australia, it's pretty big. Exactly like the rhino, this is probably a female. Yeah that's a female, yeah. Just dig it into your skin because it wanted... All right this is pretty exciting, as soon as we got here we were told that there's a harpy eagle's nest about two hours away so we're going for it. It's going to be about a four hour round trip, we have to hike and then get on a small river boat but hopefully we'll have a harpy eagle at the end of it and if you haven't seen one before you know fingers crossed I can show you it but in case you haven't they are huge. They've got a wingspan of two meters and I've never seen one before either in the zoo or in the wild so you know really we'll be lucky but hopefully we can go get one now. Oh watch it, it's up. Nice, yeah first one caught me. We're stationary, we're a little bit stuck. And this is real adventure with Tomahawk. Made it. Yeah made it, we're almost there I think to the harpy. We made it off the boat and now we've got about a 10 minute walk to go and find it. We're properly deep in the jungle now like no one really comes down here but the local village found this and they said because it's nesting it's very unlikely to leave its nest so the harpy eagle will usually protect the young because they're huge so rather than flying away when we get close it will probably stay there. Okay well she's up there. See it moving? No. Just that white bit. I can see the white bit. Oh that's the eye is it? So we found the harpy eagle but it's quite far away in a tree so I can't get a clear shot of it with this but you can see like her head just popping up out of the nest have a look around and going back down but we're not going to take the terrain up and disturb it because we were just told there was someone that did maybe four or five years ago and got it too close and then she didn't come back here for another few years until now so we're not going to bother with that but nice at least that we can see it through the binoculars and with our naked eye. That was very cool and well worth getting out here but now we gotta head back. What a couple of days in Guyana. That was really cool I think some of the coolest stuff we've done so far here but interestingly I think the next few days are going to be even better so check back for that because what I've seen on the itinerary is really really like one of the main things to see here so I want to say again thank you for watching thank you to Guyana Tourism all the links will be in the description below and if you enjoyed this then of course like and subscribe leave a comment below all that jazz and for now I'll just say see you again in the next video. It's flat. There you go buddy. Enjoy. So we just came to a local village and they're rehabbing this tapir. They found her and it's unlikely I mean she'll be able to go back into the jungle but they're taking care of her at least and we've been able to come in and feed her which is pretty cool. They're endangered and to see it in its kind of natural habitat is very cool. Oh the teeth. Enjoying that? How couldn't you tell? She's gorgeous.