Just a half hour east of Paramaribo, the Commewijne River corridor is the easiest day trip for history and scenery: a landscape of waterways, mangroves, former plantations, and small towns. Nieuw Amsterdam (pop. around 5,600) sits at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers and is best known for the early-18th-century Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam (above), now an open-air museum and heritage site. Instead of driving, some visitors go by boat cruise from the town’s riverside piers, combining the fort with stops at restored plantation sites such as Frederiksdorp and Mariënburg, along with dolphin-spotting on the river.
Read more in my post An Introduction to Suriname, and 6 Spots Not to Miss.
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