NEW AMSTERDAM

NESTING LEATHERBACK TURTLES

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August 3rd 2009
Dropped my backpack at Zus and Zo and headed to the Blue Frog office a couple minutes walking, a number of people are already there and from what I gathered from our guide Arol, they are all Dutch! But everyone can understand English, though Arol has to explain things to me in English as I cant speak Dutch. We drove about 15 minutes to a dock where we took a Javanese style big boat to do a bit of ... read more

South America » Suriname » Commewijne » Matapica

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Independence from the Netherlands was granted in 1975. Five years later the civilian government was replaced by a military regime that soon declared a socialist republic. It continued to rule through a succession of nominally civilian administrations... ... read more