Linden is Guyana's second-largest town, about 100km south of Georgetown on the Demerara River. It grew up around bauxite mining in the early twentieth century and the industry still defines the place: the skyline is dominated by old processing infrastructure, and the reddish laterite soil of the surrounding area gives it a distinctive colour. The Mackenzie bauxite works document a century of industrial extraction visible throughout the town.
The bauxite sector has declined and Linden has had its economic struggles, but the town remains lively and is a natural stop on the road south towards Brazil — the Linden–Lethem road, Guyana's main interior highway, begins here. If you are making the overland trip to the Rupununi savannahs or on to Brazil, you will pass through Linden and likely spend a night.
There is not much to hold a visitor for more than a day, but the river setting is pleasant and the town gives a genuine sense of Guyana outside the capital — less colonial, more working-class, more directly shaped by the mining economy that built it.