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South America in 1997
SURINAME
Bec2004-09-19 15:13:36
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Suriname River
Paramaribo on the Suriname River is an attractive city of 200 000 and you can go anywhere without risk of being mugged (at least in the daytime).
Rivers provide the principal mode of transport in the three Guyanas because their road systems are rather primitive.
Paramaribo
The elegant houses on Waterkrant Straat facing the Suriname River are still well taken care of by the Surinamese elite that has replaced the colonial Dutch who built them in the last century.
People's Palace (President's Residence), leftist vocabulary is still fashionable here but the government respects private property and foreign investments.
High Court, a legacy of the Dutch colonial period.
The Dutch Reformed Church on Kerkplein where Walther Loff used to play more than 50 years ago... (If you don't know who Walther Loff is, ask him at - wloff@connect.ab.ca - ).
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