The Afternoon on the Surinam and Commewijne Rivers

At Frederiksdorp, we stopped at the grounds of a hotel which had been the property of the owner of a sugar plantation. We walked for 15 minutes to Johanna en Margaretha, a village once visited by the Dutch King and Queen, for a drink before reembarking for a short ride before disembarking again to see the remains of the Marienburg rum factory and memorials to those workers executed in 1902 for murdering a cruel Scottish manager.
Back on the pirogue, we were on the Commewijne River which we must have turned into sometime in the morning. Now we turned back into the Surinam River around the peninsula of Nieuw Amsterdam, disembarking to walk around the grounds housing former military installations, such as the powder store, and the 19th and 20th century prison which had been a barracks in the 18th century when enemy attacks were more likely.
We crossed the river back to Leonsberg and then back to the hotel.
Some of us went to Chi Min, a large Chinese restaurant with enormous helpings, for dinner.Read more