Historic sites
UNESCO-listed remains of a 17th-century Jewish settlement on the Suriname River, including the ruins of what is believed to be the earliest architecturally significant synagogue in the Americas and the older Cassipora Creek cemetery.
Best for history, UNESCO, day trips.
| Seller | Product | Published price | Duration | Departure | Joining | Checked | Source |
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| Cardy Adventures | Jodensavanne (Jews-savanneh) Suriname | EUR 65 pp | full day | Not stated | Min. 3 | September 2026 | official |
| Jenny Tours Suriname | Jodensavanne | EUR 82.50 pp | full day | Paramaribo | Shared, min. 3 | September 2026 | official |
| Access Suriname Travel | Jodensavanne (from) | EUR 85 pp | — | Not stated | Not stated | September 2026 | official |
| All Suriname Tours (reseller) | Jodensavanne Bus Tour | EUR 85 pp | full day | Not stated | Not stated | September 2026 | platform |
| METS Travel & Tours | Jodensavanna – Colakreek Tour (from) | EUR 95 pp | full day | Not stated | Not stated | September 2026 | official |
| Orange Travel Suriname | Jodensavanne boat trip (from) | EUR 125 pp | 9 h | Marine stairs on the waterfront, Between 08:00 and 09:00hrs | Shared, min. 4 | September 2026 | official |
| All Suriname Tours (reseller) | Jodensavanne Boat Trip | EUR 125 pp | full day | Not stated | Not stated | September 2026 | platform |
| Jenny Tours Suriname | Jodensavanne boottour | EUR 150 pp | full day | Not stated | Not stated | September 2026 | official |
Prices are printed exactly as the seller published them on the date shown, in the seller's currency, and are not converted. A seller with no published price shows "Not published".
Jodensavanne is Suriname's second UNESCO World Heritage site, and most travel writing has not caught up with that. It was inscribed on 19 September 2023 as the Jodensavanne Archaeological Site: Jodensavanne Settlement and Cassipora Creek Cemetery, the country's first inscription since the historic inner city of Paramaribo.
The site is two linked places on the forested banks of the Suriname River. The settlement, founded in the 1680s, includes the ruins of what is believed to be the earliest architecturally significant synagogue in the Americas; the Cassipora Creek cemetery is older still. UNESCO's citation frames the whole as an illustration of early Jewish settlement in the New World.
The Jodensavanne Foundation maintains and presents the site and publishes a cemetery database and research on tombstone iconography. What it does not publish is visiting hours or an admission fee, and we are not going to guess at them.
In practice most visitors come on a day tour from Paramaribo (Orange Travel sells it as a river cruise), and Overbridge is a common lunch stop on the same day.
A five-day route that works around what is actually open: the UNESCO inner city on foot, the Commewijne plantations by boat, Jodensavanne upriver, and one night at Brownsberg, Galibi in season or Fredberg. With published prices and the opening hours that decide the order.
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Four river trips leave Paramaribo and they are not versions of one another: the sunset dolphin boat, the Commewijne plantation day, Jodensavanne by water and the Braamspunt turtle night. Published prices, departure points and what the river does not promise.
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Two of Suriname's three World Heritage sites (the country's cultural pair), a plantation district, a ruined sugar factory and a fort museum. What each one holds, which guided walks and tours are published and at what price, and where slavery and indenture are the subject rather than a footnote.
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There is no single best tour from Paramaribo. Decide what you came for — history, animals, food, the river, or simply an afternoon — and the choice narrows to one or two. With published prices, the alternatives, and how booking actually works in this market.
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Both are a full day out of the city, both are about plantations and the people who worked them, and they sit in opposite directions. Commewijne is closer, cheaper, easier to join and pairs with dolphins; Jodensavanne is the World Heritage site and the longer river day. Compared on what the operators publish, read 6 September 2026.
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The ruins of a seventeenth-century Jewish plantation settlement on the Suriname River, about 50 km south of Paramaribo, inscribed as Suriname's third World Heritage property, and second cultural one, in 2023. Visited on a day tour by road or by boat, usually with a swim at Overbridge. Published prices from EUR 65 to EUR 150.
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The excursion price index: every price a Paramaribo operator or reseller published for a day trip, boat trip, overnight or interior programme, exactly as printed, with the seller, the terms and the date it was read. Ninety offers across twenty-two excursions on 6 September 2026.
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Which Paramaribo excursions run for one person, which need two, three, four or six before they leave, which operators publish dates you can join, and the questions to put to an operator before you pay. From the operators' own pages, read 6 September 2026.
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Commewijne, Jodensavanne, Overbridge, Colakreek, Peperpot, Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam, the dolphin boat, Braamspunt, Brownsberg, Galibi, Bigi Pan and Fredberg in one table: how far, how long, what every seller charges, how many people a departure needs, and which ones are not day trips at all. Read 6 September 2026.
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Information on this page is sourced from UNESCO World Heritage Centre, Jodensavanne Foundation, Orange Travel Suriname.
A one-day boat and road excursion from Paramaribo through Commewijne's plantation belt, usually calling at Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam, Frederiksdorp and Peperpot or Rust en Werk. Sold by at least six operators from about EUR 60 to EUR 85 per person as of September 2026.
River resort on the Suriname River south of Paramaribo with a river beach and no flight involved, popular for weekend stays and as the lunch stop on Jodensavanne day tours.
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