Suriname sits in the Northeast of South-America, surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, French Guyana, Brazil and Guyana, a country with enormous cultural diversities and one of the few spots in the world where the tropical rainforest is still completely virgin. Here you still find two of the authentic cultures of the original inhabitants, the Amerindians, and the Maroons. The Maroons being the descendants from slaves who managed to escape and settled in the virgin forest. This is One of the least densely populated tropical countries in the world; approximately 95 percent of the 450.000 inhabitants live in the capital city Paramaribo and in small villages located along the coast and riverbanks.

Suriname is ideally suited for the conservation of it’s unique neo tropical Rainforest biome. While Suriname is a relatively small country, it is internationally quite significant, because it has one of the highest percentages of tropical cover in the world with over 80 percent of the total area covered by forests and a rate of destruction under 0.1 percent annually. It has nine times the forest size of Costa Rica and more tropical forest than all but four African countries. With almost 3.000 miles of waterways, Suriname is also known for being a land of winding and turbulent rivers. Less known, but just as intriguing, are the rich savannahs, coastal plains and swamplands. On the coastline each year from February through August, sea turtles such as the leatherback, make landfall and hatch their young.

Suriname is a country of sunshine. There is no day without the sun, even during the rainy season. According to European standards Suriname is of course, a warm country, but due to the cool breeze of the northeast trade wind, an average daytime temperature of 28 degrees is perfectly bearable. Also in the interior, where the temperature drops to about 20 degrees at night. The tropical rainy season is from mid-April to mid-July and a brief one lasts December-January. The two dry seasons are from mid-July to November and February to mid-April. 

Suriname offers both an overwhelming nature with high reaching trees, broadly flowing rivers and impressive rapids as well as the history of Paramaribo, the capital and a veritable museum of Dutch, English, French, Spanish and Portuguese presence.