Paramaribo

Surprising Suriname

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December 22nd 2012
Day 428 Wednesday 12th December The lady must have called Frank the taxi driver because at 7.40am still no taxi and at 7.45am still no taxi, apparently he had to take his kids to school that’s OK we only need to catch a ferry. The lady quickly called another taxi and he turned up in within a few minutes and got us down the port which was only 5 minutes away. If we had missed the ferry it reall ... read more

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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