Mapari Wilderness Camp

Mapari sits on the banks of a clear-water tributary at the foot of the Kanuku Mountains in southern Guyana’s Rupununi region, four hours upriver from the village of Yupukari. The camp is a partnership between a Kanuku-based guide who has worked these forests for two decades and the Indigenous community that owns the surrounding land. Guides and cooks are from the village. An active Harpy Eagle nest sits a three-minute walk from camp, visible from a rocky outcrop used as the viewing platform.

Accommodation is a single sixty-foot thatched shelter with hammocks for up to ten guests, a raised wooden dining deck on the riverbank, and two pit latrines down a short trail. Bathing is in the river and in the boulder pool below Mapari Falls. There is no Wi-Fi, no cell service, and no electricity beyond a small generator for charging batteries. The protected area around camp holds more than sixty percent of Guyana’s birds, all six of its cats, and all eight of its primates.