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| Paramaribo Brownsberg Frogs Kabalebo Nieuw Nickerie |
Paramaribo
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| The Mighty Suriname River |
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| Fort Zeelandia |
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| Fort Zeelandia |
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| Outside Fort Zeelandia |
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| Presidential Palace |
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| Colonial-era Finance Ministry building |
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| Johan Adolf Pengel Colonial-Era Prime Minister 1963-1969 |
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| St Peter & Paul Cathedral (~1885) |
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| St Peter & Paul Cathedral (~1885) |
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| St Peter & Paul Cathedral interior Note the fine wooden roof |
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| Octagonal Centrumkerk (~1835) |
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| Octagonal Centrumkerk (~1835) |
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| Mosque + Synagogue |
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| Neveh Shalom Synagogue (1842) |
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| Mosque Keizerstraat (1984) A Mosque of the Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement. |
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| Central Bank of Suriname |
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| Dutch Colonial era buildings |
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| Dutch Colonial era buildings |
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| Dutch Colonial era buildings |
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| "Baba en Mai" "Monument van de Hindoostaanse Immigratie" (1993) |
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| Surinamese Korean War Veterans monument |
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| 1980 "Sergeants' Coup" Monument |
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| Simon Bolivar monument |
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Brownsberg and Brokopondo
Brownsberg
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| Wildcat Gold Miners On the road to Brownsberg |
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| On the ascent road up to Brownsberg Macheting through a roadblock |
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| Abother, smaller, blockage on the road |
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| Cloudy view from Brownsberge |
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| Brownsberg forest |
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| Brownsberg: Leoval Fall |
Afobaka Dam and Lake Brokopondo
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| Suriname River, 500 meters North of Afobaka Dam |
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| Breakfast beside the Suriname River With guide Arafat |
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| Afobaka dam On the Suriname river, below Lake Brokopondo |
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| Top view of Afobaka Dam |
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| Boat for Lake Tour |
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| Lake Brokopondo Water level was very high. |
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| Into a seasonal creek |
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| Some of the many dead tree trunks Left from when the lake filled up |
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| Fresh vines on an old dead trunk And birds's nests too. |
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| Eerie dead tree trunks |
Kabalebo: Frogs & Toads
The definite high point of my Kalabelo trip was definitely the many exotic frogs and toads.
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| Dyeing Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates tinctorius) |
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| Guide + Dyeing Poison Frog |
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| Graham + Dyeing Poison Dart Frog Dyeing Poison Dart Frog (Dendrobates tinctorius) |
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| Guide + Harlequin Toad Hoogmoed Harlequin Toad (Atelopus hoogmoedi) |
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| Harlequin Toad |
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| Harlequin Toad |
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| Three-Striped Poison Frog (Ameerega trivittata) |
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| Well camouflaged leaf frog (?) |
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| Unidentified flattish frog |
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| Tree Frog at night |
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| Tree Frog at night |
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| (Alleged) Suriname Toad at night |
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| (Alleged) Suriname Toad |
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| Three-Striped Poison Frog at night |
Kabalebo Nature Resort
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| My flight to the Kabalebo Nature Resort |
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| Over Paramaribo |
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| Well-manicured Kabalebo Airstrip |
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| Kabalebo Resort HQ |
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| Boat Dock |
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| Down the river we go... |
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| Side-by-side Tow Home After we lost our propeller |
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| Notice something wrong here? No propeller! |
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| Back out on the river... |
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| Macheting into a narrow creek This got us into the Frog Hike |
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| Distinctive tree roots |
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| A little land crab |
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| Moi-Moi Waterfall |
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| With a napping Cayman |
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| Tree buttresses |
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| Night Hike: Large centipede |
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| Night Hike: Well camouflaged stick insect |
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| Night Hike: Unknown small mammal |
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| Night Hike: Lurking spider |
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| Very distant Howler Monkeys |
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| Extravagantly buttressed tree |
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| Very distant Toucans |
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| Baby Anaconda |
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| A glimpse of a Very Giant Anaconda (Look behind the yellow leaf) |
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| Time to fly back! |
Tour to Nieuw Nickerie
A rather unexciting tour along the coast to Nieuw Nickerie and back.
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| We passed the hamlet of Hamilton Site of 19th c Scottish-owned Plantation |
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| Totness Church |
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| Totness: Inscrutable local art |
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| Totness: Distant Scarlet Ibis |
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| Totness: Distant Scarlet Ibis |
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| Onee of Nieuw Nickerie's many rice farms |
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| Nieuw Nickerie Church |
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| En route to Bigi Pan: Port portage ramp |
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| Canal to Bigi Pan |
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| Bigi Pan Lake The South End has many small cafe/social huts on stilts |
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| Bigi Pan: Distant flock of Scarlet Ibises |
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| Bigi Pan: Distant flock of Scarlet Ibises |
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| Nieuw Nickerie Markt: Real yellow bananas |
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| Fishing pier on Nickerie River |
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| Gutted fish, ready for smoking |
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| Seawall on Courantyne River Estuary With hazy glimpses over to Guyana |
| Dominica
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