The best of Suriname and Guyana in 14 days

Program of the highlights of Guyana and Suriname

Day 1: Arrive in Suriname, at the Pengel international airport. A taxi will bring you to the hotel. Dinner is at your own costs.

Day 2:  Free day. Lunch and dinner at your own costs. Stroll along the waterside called Waterkant and have a nice Surinamese lunch at Gadri restaurant while enjoying a nice breeze from the river. The restaurant is situated at the back of the National Assembly building.

Day 3: City trip in Paramaribo. Lunch and dinner at your own costs.

Day 4: Around 8.00 am you leave Paramaribo by car and drive to the west side of Suriname, district Nickerie. The driver stops in Groningen, the capital of the district Saramacca. You can view the four monuments which are important for Suriname; the Slavery Abolition, the Civil War, the Boeroes, and the Immigration of the Hindus. In Coronie a sanitary stop is made if necessary and lunch is served. Around 14.00 o’clock, you arrive at the riverside where you get into a traditional canoe. Here you meet your enthusiastic guide, who can show you everything along the road. Via the Nickerie river and the Jamaer canal, you sail towards Bigi Pan. Enjoy the Parwa forests and mangroves along the way. These forests serve as natural protection against erosion and as a breeding ground for young shrimps. At the end of the canal, there is a huge lake, this is Bigi Pan! Houses on stilts are in the water and here you spend the night. The accommodation where you stay is simple. You can choose to sleep in a bed or in a hammock. If you sleep in a hammock, you can see the sunrise over the lake the next morning; this is highly recommended! In the afternoon you can get into the boat to spot caimans, take a mud bath, or go fishing. In the evening you will enjoy dinner together.

Day 5: Not long after the sunrise and after breakfast you step in the boat to spot birds. In the morning you can come quite close to the flamingos (for the perfect picture!) before they fly elsewhere. Many birds spend the winter in Bigi Pan to search for food in the nutrient-rich water. Buzzards, vultures, kingfishers, owls, eagles, woodpeckers, tree patches, and scarlet ibises are just a few examples of the 120 bird species that you can encounter here. When you come back, you can relax in a hammock with a view over the lake. What a wonderful place this is! After lunch, you sail back to Nieuw-Nickerie. This is the second city of Suriname but only has a little more than 13,000 inhabitants. The apartment is located in the city. In the evening after dinner, we will visit a Dijck, called Zeedijk that prevents the sea to take the land and enter a beautiful Hindu temple.

Day 6: Early morning you will depart to catch the ferry to go to Georgetown, breakfast will be in-between. At Southdrain at the Surinamese border, you will cross the Corantyn river to Guyana. Lunch will be in the village Rosehall and you will arrive in Georgetown at around 15.00. Dinner will be around 20.00 in Georgetown (at your own costs) and in the evening you are free.

Day 7: Today you will make a City tour through Georgetown, see the famous Stabroek Market, St. George Cathedral, and National Museum. After lunch, you go to Ogle airport for your flight to Kaieteur Falls, visit the world ’s widest single water drop falls! This trip will last approximately 2 hours. In the afternoon before dinner (at your own costs), you will visit the Seawall.

Day 8:  Today you say goodbye to Guyana and at 3.00 am the journey to Paramaribo starts. Breakfast and lunch will be in between. You will arrive at your hotel in Paramaribo at around 15.00.

Day 9: Free day. Lunch and dinner at your own costs.  We offer different day- trips to Joden Savanna, quad tours, dolphin spotting, sea turtle spotting (in season), or bike tours. Ask your guide for more information.

Day 10: Free day. Lunch and dinner at your own costs.

Day 11: Free day. Lunch and dinner at your own costs.

Day 12: Around 9 o’clock, you will be picked up by the bus at your hotel for the trip to Berg en Dal resort. Located in the midst of a breathtaking tropical rainforest on the banks of the Suriname River, at approximately 85 km from Suriname’s capital city of Paramaribo, lies the Berg en Dal Eco & Cultural River Resort. Accessible by road (and river) within one and a half hours and set within a total area of 2400 hectares. The Resort with its adjacent Berg en Dal Heritage Village and Adventure Centre, offering visitors numerous educational and adventure-packed activities. These activities have to be reserved and paid on the spot. Berg en Dal has a long involved history of the previous Berg en Dal plantation with intriguing stories, legends, and myths. Lunch and dinner will be served on the terrace overlooking the Suriname river.

Day 13: After a healthy breakfast you have free time to swim are going for a walk on the resort.  Transport to the international airport will be provided.

Day 14: Arrive at your destination. 

Notes: 

Traveling to Guyana only on Fridays.

The program can be changed due to your arrival date. 

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