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South America » Suriname » Commewijne » Matapica 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 dolphin spotting in the Surinam river. We spotted a number of them in pockets but very difficult to take photos of as they disappear quickly as they appear, I should have just made a video. We got off at New Amsterdam which way back then was a prosperous plantation processing sugar cane, It's an open air museum ... read more
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