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To be woken by a wolf whistle is a novelty not many enjoy, but there it was, rousing us from sleep with a flirty insistence. Later, as the sun climbed to warm the top of the jungle canopy, the whistle ...

Looking out the window of our single-engine Cessna as we buzzed above the Guyana rain forest, a comparison to Mars was inevitable. I'd just seen some pictures sent back from the Red Planet, and was ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – The governments of Guyana and Brazil will try to tap China's $10 billion Latin American infrastructure fund to finance a 350-mile jungle highway linking the two South American ...

In one of the most dramatic mass murder-suicides of modern history, 914 adults and children from a US cult died in the jungle of the small South American country of Guyana on November 18, 1978. Here ...

Deep in Guyana’s jungle, just upriver from a thundering waterfall, my boat began to sink . . . on facebook (opens in a new window) Deep in Guyana’s jungle, just upriver from a thundering waterfall, my ...

"Welcome to the People's Temple," reads the green lettering on a sign above a red dirt road announcing the entrance to what was once Jonestown, a jungle utopia-turned-nightmare, where 914 adults and ...

GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Authorities in the South American country of Guyana said Sunday they have seized more than 8,000 pounds (3,600 kilograms) of cocaine found in a lush jungle near the border ...

A signpost pictured in September marks the entrance to the former Jonestown community where more than 900 people died in a mass murder-suicide in 1978 - Copyright AFP ...