Tailor-made Suriname Tours 2026, 2027 & 2028

Paramaribo’s 17th-century grid pairs Dutch colonial brickwork with native basralocus timber framing. The waterfront is anchored by the star-shaped Fort Zeelandia and the Presidential Palace, built from brick ballast shipped from the Netherlands. Nearby, the all-wooden Saint Peter and Paul Cathedral stands 44 metres tall, its interior lined entirely with unpainted Lebanese cedar, while the surrounding streets follow the original 1683 Dutch canal drainage system.

Accessible only by motorised korjaal canoes, riverside settlements like Pikin Slee and Gunsi preserve autonomous tribal territories. These communities maintain 18th-century Saramaccan Maroon governance, where kapitens (village chiefs) rule via traditional council systems. The lanes are lined with tembe—intricate geometric wood carvings on doors and paddles—and echo with the syncopated Apinti talking-drum rhythms rooted in West African resistance.