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Tour operator · Paramaribo North

METS Travel & Tours

Long-established Paramaribo tour operator that runs its own jungle lodges in the Surinamese interior, including Awarradam, Palumeu and the Kasikasima base camp, plus day trips and city tours. Also books hotels, transfers and river cruises.

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Best for

  • jungle trips
  • multi-day travellers
  • birdwatchers

METS is the operator to talk to if the interior is why you came to Suriname. Unlike the agencies that resell other people's programmes, it runs its own jungle lodges — Awarradam and Palumeu, plus the Kasikasima base camp — with the Maroon and indigenous communities whose land they sit on. Its office is at Anton Drachtenweg 7, Paramaribo, on +597 473 802, with a round-the-clock line for people already upriver.

Prices on its own site on 21 August 2026 started at about EUR 425 for a four-to-five-day Awarradam programme, EUR 665 for Palumeu and EUR 808 for the five-to-eight-day Kasikasima expedition. Those are starting prices in euros and will move.

The Surinamese government reported METS making a successful restart after a period of disruption — most likely the post-2020 collapse in travel — and the live pricing on its site is consistent with it trading normally again.

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  • Awarradam Jungle Lodge

    Accommodation

    Jungle lodge at the Awaadan rapids on the Gran Rio, about 225 km from Paramaribo in Saramaccan territory, reached by light aircraft and korjaal; stays are sold as multi-day packages.

  • Palumeu Jungle Lodge

    Accommodation

    Lodge at the indigenous village of Palumeu on the Upper Tapanahony River in deep-south Suriname, where stays revolve around Wayana and Trio village life; access is by light aircraft.

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Information on this page is sourced from METS N.V., Government of Suriname.