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| Paramaribo | ||
| Country | Suriname | |
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| Residents | 223.757 (2019) | |
| height | 3 m | |
| Tourist info | 597 42-2916 information | |
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Paramaribo is the capital of Suriname. It is located in the north of the country not far from the coast of the Caribbean Sea on the Suriname River and has around 250,000 inhabitants. The historic old town, which was built in the Dutch colonial style, has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The city forms its own district, which is also called Paramaribo.
background
Paramaribo, often Par'bo called, has a checkered history. Founded by the Dutch as a trading post, it moved to the British several times over the centuries, only to be recaptured from the original owners. With the independence of Suriname in 1975, Paramaribo was declared the capital of the country.
Today Paramaribo is a multicultural port city with a mix of cultures that is unique in the world. Its inhabitants are only a small part of the descendants of the indigenous peoples and the Dutch, while most of them come from Asia, especially from India. Java and China as well as African countries. The latter are the so-called Creoles and Marrons - descendants of the slaves who fled to the rainforest.
The place with around 250,000 inhabitants is home to around half of Suriname's population.
getting there
By plane
is from Amsterdam from directly. There are also flights from most of the neighboring countries, so from Georgetown (Guyana), Belém (Brazil), Cayenne (French Guiana) and some Caribbean islands. Buses take about an hour into town.
Only used by small machines from Guiana (Trans Guyana Airways) or especially from Gum Air served from the hinterland.In the street
The road connection on the north coast of South America is still not continuously passable. So the piece is missing in between Venezuela and Guyana (via the detour via Lethem, Guyana, and northwestern Brazil it goes however) and between the east of French Guiana and Northeast Brazil. To get to Paramaribo overland from the other countries in South America, you definitely have to go through Guyana. Its border town at the mouth of the river Courantyne (Dutch: Corantijn) is Corriverton, on the Surinamese side 1 Nieuw Nickerie (13,000 inhabitants) The villages are connected by a ferry.
The other end of the east-west link is 150 km from Paramaribo on the French Guiana border 2 Albina From here you can take a boat downriver to Galibi at the mouth of the Marowijne.
The highway to the south, which begins as Kennedyweg, leads past the airport to Atjoni in Upper Suriname, from where you can take a boat (korjaal) comes from further south into the interior. There is a turnoff to near the airport 3 Apoera (= Apura) About 3000 mostly Indian residents live there on the Corantijn. The Guyanese neighboring town, 24 km down the river, is Orealla.
mobility
Downtown Paramaribo is compact enough to be explored on foot. Public transport is handled by buses. The 3 Bus station on the Knuffelsgracht
Taxis usually run without a taximeter, so it is highly advisable to negotiate the price before you start your journey. Inner-city short trips usually cost at least 10 SRD.
Tourist Attractions
The Water edge is the worth seeing part of the place protected as part of the world cultural heritage, directly on the river.
The 1 Palmentuin ("palm garden") In front of it is a central, open, unpaved square around which the old town is located. }} On the southeast side is the 2 Presidential palace Colonial style. It is noticeable that you can do without the modern security systems that are common in other parts of the world. Further towards the river, on Independence Square ("Onafhankelijkheidsplein") is the one that is not open to the public 3 Parliament building ("De Nationale Assemblee") That protected them less than a hundred meters away 4 Fort Zeelandia the port and the city from raids. It is open Tues.-Sun. 9.00-23.00 and is considered the oldest building in the city, begun in 1617 and expanded several times,
Monuments
- 5 Helstone memorial, Mr. F.H.R. Lim A Po St. In honor of the well-known Surinamese composer Johannes Nicolaas Helstone. Large granite monument built in 1948, modeled on an "H" and an "M".
- Past the Centrumskerk it is less than a hundred meters to the indispensable in South America 6 Simon Bolivar Monument
Churches, mosques, synagogues, temples
activities
kitchen
- Shin Kong Restaurant, Gompertstraat 16. Tel.: 597 453569.
- Chi Min, Cornelis Jongbawstraat 83. Tel.: 597 412155, 597 421324, 597 427048, Fax: 597 427057. Chinese Kitchen.Open: 11 a.m. - 11 p.m.
- Palm Palace, Cornelis Jongbawstraat 34-36. Tel.: 597 476427, 597 476428, 597 422407, Fax: 597 412167, 597 476429. Chinese Kitchen.
nightlife
There are several in Paramaribo Casinos, associated with the hotels of the same name. In the city center: King Princess (Domineestraat 7-9), Phenicia Princess (Keizerstraat 81); Torarica Hotel (Rietbergplein 1); the largest is the Princess Hotel (Kleine Waterstraat 19).
accommodation
medium
- Hotel Tran Elite ***
- 2 Albergo Alberga. Tel.: 597 520050. In the city center in a wooden colonial house in Lim A Postraat 13. WiFi, small pool. Safe and airport pick-up for a fee. Washing clothes is expensive.Open: Lim A Po straat 13.Price: with fan: single € 20, double € 26; with A / C: € 33-43; cheaper weekly rates. Breakfast € 5.
- 3 Guesthouse Amice, Gravenberchstraat 5. Tel.: 597 43 42 89. Air-conditioned rooms, small pool, chargeable safe, dinner upon reservation. For the quality at the upper end of the price range.Price: single: € 50, double: € 55-70.
Upscale
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- 5 Hotel & Casino Torarica ****, Mr. L.J. Rietbergplein 1. Tel.: 597 471500, Fax: 597 411682, Email: [email protected].
- 6 Residence Inn Paramaribo ****, Anton Dragtenweg 7. Tel.: 597 472387, Fax: 597 424811, Email: [email protected].
- 7 Eco Resort Inn ****, Cornelis Jongbawstraat 16. Tel.: 597 471500, Fax: 597 411682, Email: [email protected].
- Krasnapolsky Hotel ****
- North Resort, J.D. Gompertstraat 145-147. Tel.: 597 457591, 597 8805771, Fax: 597 457527, Email: [email protected].
- 8 Kekemba Resort, Mangolaan 118 (Directly at the zoo (east side)). 3 * apartments / bungalows best suited for small groups / couples. Pool.Price: from € 46.
security
During the day, Paramaribo is safer than other major South American cities. The park (Palmentuin) near the presidential palace should be avoided after dark.
The penalties for drug possession are severe. This is not surprising, given that the president has been in office since 2010 (for the first time as military dictator in 1980-87) Dési Bouterse would like to monopolize the business for himself, at least he was sentenced, in absentia, to eleven years imprisonment in the Netherlands for smuggling 474 kg of cocaine. An amnesty law absolved him of 15 murder charges. So many "dissidents" had been put up against the wall in Fort Zeelandia in December 1982.
health
Mosquitoes are also numerous during the day because of the numerous bodies of water.
Practical advice
Hospitals
- The hospital is central 1 s'Lands Hospitaal, Tourtonnelaan 3. Tel.: 597 473655. Financed with Dutch development aid, opened in 2008.
Tourist office
- Dr. J.F., Nassylaan 2. Tel.: 597 42-2916.
Immigration service
- Department for Alien Registration, Ministry of Justice and Police, Mr. J. Lachmonstraat 166-168 (on the ground floor of the Ministry of Public Works). Registration is mandatory for stays of more than a month.
Honorary Consulate
- Neither the FRG nor Austria have a diplomatic representation on site. Emergency aid for Germans may be provided by the honorary consulate: Randoe Suriname N.V., Dr. Sophie Redmondstraat 250, ☎ 597 44 29 58, whose superior office is the Embassy in Port of Spain. Austrians are represented by the consul at Henck Arronstraat 16 (☎ 597 420 468), who is at the embassy in Brasilia is subordinated.
post
- 3 Main Post Office ("Hoofdpostkantoor") (Behind the Simon Bolivar monument).
trips
Tour operators offer, among other things, day trips (2014: € 65) to dilapidated sugar cane plantations that are visited by boats upstream. This can also include a visit to the "museum village" 4 Marienburg Surinam's last sugar refinery closed in 1986, but the associated village remained inhabited.
The village (1220 inh.) With the former fort is closer to Paramaribo 5 Nieuw-Amsterdam Accessible by boat or via the bridge to Meerzorg from there northwards. From here the access from the sea to the plantations on Commewijne and Suriname could be blocked. Today with a worthwhile open-air museum and monuments.
Significantly more expensive are tours into the jungle that lead to the villages of the Marrons and the Indians. Incidentally, the latter can be better described as "Inheemsen", i.e. denote locals.
Via Albina (see above) one arrives in small boats (korjaal) in about 1½ hours 7 Galibi There you will find one of the country's rare sandy beaches and the possibility of taking the locals to the turtle beaches by boat. A car ferry runs from Albina over the Marowijne to Saint Laurent du Maroni in French Guiana, where you pay in euros, by the way; However, you can also have locals translate and pick you up in a canoe, for example, as a day tour; but then without a car. Boat trips up the border river Marowijne are possible.
Web links
- surinametourism.sr (engl.)
