Fort New Amsterdam

After lunch, we continued to the confluence of the Commewijne and Suriname Rivers at New Amsterdam. Here, we visited the outdoor museum of Fort New Amsterdam, with its large fortress, which was built as a defence for the crop fields that were situated along the upper parts of both rivers.
Here, I got some understanding of the conditions that the plantation workers had to experience and the ethnic diversity of the different communities that made up the workforce.Read more