After the ride, we had a nice breakfast and we headed to the border with Guyana to be able to take the only ferry out of Suriname tomorrow … which apparently fills up very quickly.
A very different Paramaribo today after the yesterday’s holiday … lots of traffic … had to ride on the sidewalks a lot the get past a few bottlenecks … and, on the west edge of town, lots of mosques, churches, and Buddhist temples. Nice to see all coexisting … are they? : )
The almost 300kms route went through new areas of Suriname … more rural, more remote, less populated, wilder. Crossed some big rivers, saw great nature.
Everything on both sides of the road, inside the thick jungle, seemed swampy and flooded. Towards the end, there were some huge rice fields all the way to the horizon. Very mature fields and operation. And yes there are cows here but they are brown not white like in Brasil.
Nickerie, our border town for the night, was clean, well organized, with a nice park, the only ATM in the country that works with foreign cards, good Chinese restaurants, stores, and, yes, lots of canals.
Most businesses in Suriname do not take foreign credit cards so it has been challenging at times. They will however take dollars or euros because their currency is devaluing every day for some reason.
After finding the hotel along a long sandy road adjacent to a canal, went to have some Chinese food in town and sat down at the nice veranda of a hotel to have a drink, take some pictures, and see the world go by.
There are a lot of ethnic Indian and Chinese people here and most people speak good English yet they all prefer Taki-Taki. I guess being a border town next to an English speaking country helps.
Tomorrow we leave the hotel at 6:00am to get in the ferry line early … motorcycles always squeeze through anyway so we should be fine.
After crossing, we ride for 200kms to Georgetown, the capital of Guyana.
The path to the river at our hotel this morning
Some of the houses we saw on our bike ride this morning
What a breakfast should be - a nice table, outside, a nice view, good food
One of many Buddhist temples in Paramaribo
The Christophorus Susanto Church in Totness on our way to the Guyana border
Crossing the Coppename Bridge over the Saramacca River
The open road to Guyana running through massive rice fields
The park in Nickerie close to the Guyana border
A view of the canals in Nickerie
Drempel! = Tope! They are everywhere
Brown cows crossing the road … not white
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