Photo by Joanna dhanraj
Rising Sun is a tiny, sleepy West Coast Berbice village, approximately 76 kilometres from Georgetown; there are less than a dozen families residing there. The village comes alive during the horse racing season and this goes down at the Rising Sun Turf Club.
The village is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the Abary River to the south and Seafield and Plantation Washington to the east and west.
Rising Sun’s current economic activity is rice farming, but it was said to have previously been a coffee plantation, possibly during Dutch occupation.