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|country = of Suriname
|pop = 470,784
|currency = Surinamese dollar (SRD)
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'''Suriname''' is a country in [[South America]]. Since it's a former colony of the [[Netherlands]], Dutch is the official language.
== Access ==
From Europe you will have to fly from [[Amsterdam Airport Schiphol|Schiphol]] airport ([[Amsterdam]]) ; there is also flight coming from [[Miami]]. By land you could technically can come frome from [[French Guiana]] (European Unionpart of [[France]]) as or [[Guyana]]. In both cases there is a road following river to cross, the French side has a bridge, the coast wich connect both countries (although some rivers British side doesn't and to cross you have to be crossed by ferries but chose between ''the big boat'' (the official, legal ferry, this solution is only available for suriname citizens as visas are only delivered at Paramaribo airport. It might be possible to get out of people with passports) or ''the country hitchhiking little boats'' (to French Guiana home-owned, illegal boats that take locals back and [[Guyana]] but then itforth across the border; only use this option if you don's not possible to go back in Suriname as t have the correct paperwork and remember you will be a legal alien once on the visa is single-entranceother side...)
== Visas ==As of 2011 Suriname is the only country in South America that requires a Visa for Europeans to enter the country. The cost in 2011 was 45 US$ or 40 euros, and it involves at least 3 days' paperwork in Paramaribo if you don't have the visa prepared before you arrive in the country. ==Road network==The road network is concentrated on the coast. Thus it might be possible most hitchhiking happens East to cross West, although the country E-W hitchhiking. There is no roads at all dirt tracks in the interior of the countrycan also be hiked on. In that case you will travel with miners and loggers going down into the forest for the job.
== Boat and Plane Hitchhiking ==
Suriname is organized largely around its waterways, some villages just a few kilometers away from the capital are only accessible by boat, and the taxi-like motorized boats are everywhere on the rivers. It is may be possible to hitchhike get a dugout canoe lift in a boat, perhaps by offering to help with the interior of the country as many local residents are using this technique of transportlanding procedure (although you would have to know how to line-handle at least a little), or by making friends with a boat owner. In Suriname the are probably more canoes than carsOtherwise be aware most people do pay to travel by boat.
Another option Not many sailing boats come to Suriname, although it is technically the landing point if you want to make the shortest crossing possible of the atlantic from the [[Cape Verde]] islands. There is a place called Domburg, on the west coast of the Suriname river, just a half hour down south of Paramaribo, where a private owner lets out a few moorings and some yachts have even had their owners living permanently for about 3 or 4 years (in 2011). The people who do own yachts and come to Suriname will most probably come to Domburg at some point in their visit, and they will almost always be Dutch-speakers (it's the number one reason that people come to Suriname because it is the sole Dutch-speaking country on the continent!). If you are lucky enough and have patience, you may find somebody there who would take you on their boat, and their destination from there in 99% of the cases will be [[Trinidad]].  If also seems possible to be travel inland by hitchhiking a small propeller plane like a small Cesna or Piper machine, which are going go to bumpy airfields somewhere in the jungle (or elsewhere).
==Jungle==
Don't try to go in the jungle without a local guide.
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