Charity

Charity is where the road along the Essequibo coast finally stops and the Pomeroon takes over, a market town on the river bank that empties and fills with the boats rather than with traffic. Monday is the market day, and the landing fills with produce brought downriver from farms that have no road to them at all. It is also the departure point for the long boat run north to the turtle beaches and for the Pomeroon villages upstream. Rice and coconut fill the flat country behind the town. Almost no foreign visitors stop here at all.