A Highlight of Suriname: Visiting a Maroon Village in the Deep Jungle As I sit propped upright in bed, recovering from a long battle with entamoeba histolytica (or Petey the Parasite as we’ve come…
Roti: Or, how to get obese in Suriname without really trying. Despite typical over planning, I barely researched food in Suriname before we arrived. David is a vegetarian, and I have food allergies that…
We arrived to Georgetown, Guyana near midnight on a Saturday. We had been traveling for nearly twenty four hours, and had been subjected to horrors only known by those who have flown red-eye,…
It’s hard to believe I’ve been at this blogging gig for two years now. Having just re-upped concrete and kitsch’s Bluehost account for another year of blogging indentured servitude, I was filtering through old…
Architecture is always top of mind when planning our travels. We will often make detours to out of the way locations if we find out a building or monument of particular interest is located…
Far and away the number one source of tourism in Suriname is that of the eco-variety. With over 90% of its land mass blanketed in primeval rainforest, it’s one of the best and most…
95% of the time, David and I travel fast. Because we’re constrained in time off from our jobs, we try to see as much as possible in a very condensed amount of time. This…
Though Suriname came to be the real star of our recent trip to South America, we actually started our trip in the country of Guyana, just to the west of Suriname. We were there…