Paramaribo travel guide

A rare UNESCO World Heritage Capital

Out of the cities in the three territories located on this splinter of South America - Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana - Suriname's capital of Paramaribo is by far the most scenic. This is entirely because a good portion of the old Dutch architecture remains intact and well preserved. Charming wooden structures, painted white, line the waterfront on Suriname River on Waterkant Street, through the historic town center and around the tongue-twister Onafhankelijkheidsplein (Independence Square). Paramaribo bulges with a quarter of a million people, making the city home to well over half of the country's inhabitants. To escape the midday heat, a fine option is to head behind the Presidential Palace to the Palmentium Park, with large palm trees hosting a variety of tropical birds. Just a few minutes away are the museums and the seventeenth-century Fort Zeelandia, built with the intention of keeping out the British and French and used in the late twentieth century to hold political prisoners. Paramaribo has some way to go before it becomes a fully fledged tourist attraction, but it is a superior alternative to other cities in the region. In the evenings the well-to-do head to the casinos before hitting the clubs downtown.

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