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Travel: You Know You’re in Suriname When…

By Laura Zera 21 Comments

Goooood morning (etc.) from Suriname! I arrived in Paramaribo on Mar.3 and am chilling out until I head into the jungle in two days. Here are my observations thus far, delivered in a format that I’m sure has a name, but I don’t know what it is. I call it backwards logic.

  1. You walk past a dog and it instantly and submissively bows its head (You know you’re in a developing country when…).

    And I heart U2!
  2. A Heineken delivery truck pulls up outside your guesthouse at 9:30 a.m. (You know you’re in a former Dutch colony when…).

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