A Passionate Inquiry

#24 Jose Francis - An Indigenous Man from the Guyanese Savannah

• Tim • Season 1 • Episode 24

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My friends and I had envisioned getting ourselves to a remote indigenous village in the Guyanese jungle. I had hopes of recording a conversation with some locals as English is the national language.

Through a hitchhiking mishap we ended up in a very different remote indigenous village from the initially intended area. We were also not in the jungle but, instead, in the savannah!!

We were nonetheless blessed with a truly unique experience as the first backpackers in the town of Yupukari. Jose (pronounced 'Josie') invited us into his home and showed us around for just shy of a week spotting caymans, fishing piranhas and plenty more.

I love now having such a long-form capture of him to be able to look back on and better remember our time there and this very special character who facilitated it for us.

Thanks again Jose if you ever watch this!!

And, to anyone else, hopefully an interesting insight into the kind of character that isn't so readily accessible in the modern first-world context.

Cheers, 
Tim:)