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comes from a former tribal chief named Kaie who sacrificed himself by going over the falls in a canoe to alleviate the strife that his village was incurring. The teur portion of the name actually means falls in their native language. Beer at the hotel was $1.80 US, or you could get a case at the liquor store for $.90/beer. Suriname: We took a cab and a
ferry for only $15.00 into Suriname (population 540,000) and then a bus to Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname (population 244,000). The bus cost $20 and travelled over stretches of paved, dirt and interlock roads that made it feel more like an 8-hour ride, but it was only 4 and ½. We were impressed with the capital; it was much cleaner and welcoming than Georgetown. Paramaribo is a fairly busy port city with lots of activity, and we were amazed at how many casinos seemed to dot every block. The nicest thing here
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is the diverse food options, since it’s such a melting pot of cultures with a strong Dutch, French, Asian and British influence. The Chinese who own and run most of the grocery stores, the Dutch who colonized, the Maroons who settled villages along the river, and Indonesians. You must try roti (a curry dish served with flat bread and your choice of meats, sweet potatoes and gravy), or bami (a dish of noodles, green onions, spice and choice of meats), or sato soup (a hearty chicken noodle soup very similar to Asian soups). If you go, definitely take in Javanese Street which has many restaurants and great, inexpensive, food. It was $3.00 for a liter of beer. Our main adventure was a bus ride to a village called Anjoni which cost about 10 cents, and it was a 2 ½ hour packed bus ride. Then we took a 45-foot- long dugout canoe with a 40 Yamaha up the Upper Suriname River. It was amazing to see our driver weaving his way thought the rocks and up the
rapids on our 2 ½ hour journey. We traveled as far as the boat was going that day to a jungle village called Pakinslee. It was quite a large village of 4,000 people, but most of the men are away working in the gold mines or in the city, so normal population is about 2,500 with at least 800 children. Three Dutch ladies got us settled into the lodge. After a day touring the village, the ladies helped arrange a guide to take us on a jungle tour, where we went further up the river inland to 2 other villages 8 km away. The villages were settled by Maroons who were actually escaped slaves from the 1700s. The local language is known as Saramaka and their greeting of hello is pronounced “wickinow”. The British, rather than risking their own lives chasing them into the jungle, just let them go.
After Suriname it was on to
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