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BWIA
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  • By grets on October 19, 2004
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    From London we travel on flight BW901 to Port of Spain, Trinidad where we take connecting flight BW883 to Paramaribo after a six hour stopover (we grab a taxi and go into the centre of Port of Spain for a drink). BWIA fly from London to Trinidad every day of the week, via either St Lucia or Barbados. BWIA is the oldest airline in the Caribbean, connecting the various islands for more than 60 years. We are pleasantly surprised by the amount of legroom on the flights, being six foot tall I normally sit with my legs firmly wedged into the back of the person in front, but on the BWIA plane there are a good four inches spare. Very comfortable indeed! The flight is smooth, the food is acceptable, and alcoholic drinks are charged extra. We arrive in Paramaribo at the Johan Adolf Pengel Airport, 50km south of the city and Surinam’s only international airport. Originally called Zanderij, at the end of the eighties the airport was renamed in honour of Suriname's most famous politician, Johan Adolf Pengel, who was Suriname's prime-minister from 1963 until 1969.

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    Riverboat
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  • By grets on October 20, 2004
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    From New Amsterdam Pier in Commewijne, we returned to Paramaribo by water taxi.

    All passengers must wear a life jacket at all times.

    A word of warning: watch your head as you go on board! I didn't, and hit my head on the low roof - it was very painful and produced a large bump which hurt for many days afterwards, amking it painful to wear a hat!

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    Tourist bus
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  • By grets on October 19, 2004
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    All the tourist buses in Surinam are built in Japan for the Japanese, whose legs are considerably shorter than European legs. Hence the buses are extremely uncomfortable for any long journey. One good thing - they are air conditioned - a must in the oppressive heat in this part of the world!

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    City to/from the airport
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  • By DSwede on September 30, 2008
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    • You can hire a private taxi to the airport, but a cheaper alternative is one of the private shuttle buses.

    There are a few companies in town, but a common and trusted one is "Ashruf"

    For 40 SRD, they will pick you up or drop you off at any address you request.
    Reservations are asked to be at least one day in advance.

    Upon reservation, they will tell you the pick-up time. Depending on your location and the number of passengers, pick-up may be up to 4hrs before flight.

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  • Phone: +597 450102
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    Taxis to Albina
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  • By johnkebab on April 17, 2007
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    • Taxis to Albina are not hard to find in Paramaribo, head to the market, as your looking at it, head left and you will
    1. See the collective buses.
    2. Start to hear people calling out to you for a taxi, and if you get close enough, they'll be all over you like a rash, fear not, they just want your business.
    At this point you have 3 options.
    1. You take the collective minibus, this is cheap (around 5-10euros, and they will take euros) and you will wait till the taxi is full, this is a lot of people, and it stops off all along the way, so it can take quite a long time too.
    2. Take a taxi, this will be 15 euros per person but you will wait till the taxi is full (4 people).
    3. Take a special taxi, this costs 60 euros for the cab, so if your 1 person, its quite expensive, 4 people, 15 euros each, but, you leave straight away.
    Taxis will also do this if they are called to your hotel, but the rate can vary up to 90 euros/300SRD for this, and for the sake of walking to the taxi rank, it isn't worth it.
    Whichever choice you make, the route between Paramaribo and Albina is FUN - depending on your will to live, of course. The route itself isn't that bad, a bit pot-holy in places, but OK, the drama is the speed at which the taxi guys go, and depending on how powerful their car is, depends on this speed, you can go as slow as 130km/h or as fast as 160km/h and most of the time you don't slow down for oncoming traffic, so stand by for involuntary reflexes all you drivers.
    I find that if you have a good night out in Paramaribo the night before leaving, you can get some sleep in the car and this minimises any potential trauma you might experience. Expect the journey to take around an hour and a half in a special taxi, anything up to 3 hours in a collective (depending on stops).

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    Car Ferry Albina-St Laurent
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  • By johnkebab on April 17, 2007
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    • There is a car ferry (quite a good one) that runs between Albina and St Laurent, usually in the mornings but also Sunday evening, if you take it through Suriname with the aim of entering French Guyana, make sure you have all your docs intact, and you're visas and entry stamps in order, cuz the ferry goes to the French Guianese customs terminal, so you will be checked.

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    Fort Zeelandia
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  • By grets on October 19, 2004
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    Our first stop is at the Fort Zeelandia on the waterfront. The fort was built by the French in 1640 and taken over and reinforced by the English in 1651, who named it Fort Willoughby after their leader, but it was later renamed Fort Zeelandia when the Dutch conquered Surinam in 1667. Many changes have taken place to the fort over the centuries and since 1968 it has housed the National Museum, apart from a small period of eleven years when it was used for the detention and torture of political prisoners after the coup of 1980. The fort is pentagonal with five bastions, one on each corner, and the walls are made of shell-stone. The museum is housed on two floors and include such displays as Susanna du Plessis belongings (a rich and infamously cruel plantation owner), pharmaceutical jars, a bottle collection which includes modern Coke bottles, a model of the fort, a reconstructed Amerindian dwelling, guns, a cobblers workshop and an excellent photo exhibit on slavery in Surinam. No photos are allowed inside.

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    WWII Memorial
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  • By grets on October 19, 2004
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    The bauxite export was probably Suriname's most important contribution to the allied forces during World War II. Aluminium, made from bauxite, was very important for constructing airplanes.

    Suriname was on its own during the German occupation of The Netherlands (1940-1945). At the time The Netherlands got occupied, the Germans had a large ship, the Goslar, in Paramaribo. The captain of the ship managed to sink the ship before it could be taken over by the Surinamese authorities. The remains of the ship still lie in the harbor of Paramaribo.

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    St Peter and St Paul Cathedral
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  • By grets on October 19, 2004
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    The cathedral, from 1885, is the tallest wooden building in the western hemisphere. It is currently closed for renovation after an almost collapse during restoration work in 1979, the work is to financed by the EU. The cathedral has also suffered vandalism to the building and the Maarschalkerweerd organ.

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  • Address: Gravenstraat 14
  • Website: http://www.delsur.cec.eu.int/en/eu_and_suriname/newsletters/october_2000/plans_for_the_restoration_of_the_cathedral.htm
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    Jules Albert Wydenbosch Bridge
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  • Updated By grets on October 19, 2004
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    The 1 ½ km long bridge spans the Surinam River, linking Paramaribo and Commonwijne. The bridge is 55m high and was built in Year 2000. Wydenbosch was president of Suriname from September 15, 1996 to August 12, 2000, The Surinam River carries mud from the Amazon, hence its brown colour.

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