Suriname

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Suriname is one of those strange countries that you know exists but wonder why anyone would visit, other than a dedicated country lister (that’s me). However it has a surprising amount to see and I suspect will emerge on the wildlife circuit sooner rather than later. We flew in from Guyana on a Gum Air Cessna Caravan having secured a visa the day before, as they had changed the rules a week before we got there (not unusual around these parts). A Dutch colony in the past, there is still plenty of evidence in that language and street names, and a huge number of Dutch tourists still come here for holidays. Also, the second largest wooden building in the world, another cathedral.

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We visited the earliest Jewish settlement in South America. The pictures show the graveyard and the Synagogue.

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© Paul Hyland 2012