Day trips from Paramaribo
Suriname has two UNESCO World Heritage sites, and the second one is a day trip. Jodensavanne, Commewijne, Colakreek and Overbridge — what each one is, and which are worth a whole day.
Updated 21 August 2026
Attraction · Nieuw-Amsterdam, Commewijne
Openluchtmuseum Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam
An open-air museum inside the walls of Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam in Commewijne, at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers opposite Paramaribo, with former prison cells and wartime artillery on the grounds.
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- day trips
- history interest
- families
Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam stands at the confluence of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers, opposite Paramaribo, and has held an open-air museum inside its walls since 1968. It is in Commewijne District, which means crossing the river to reach it — the same trip that gets you to the plantation belt and Peperpot.
The museum is the fortification: visitors walk the grounds past former prison cells and Second World War artillery rather than through galleries. It works best as one stop on a Commewijne day rather than a destination on its own.
Opening hours are the weak point of this entry. Times do circulate — weekdays 09:00 to 17:00, weekends 10:00 to 18:00 — but only through community sources, so we record them as unverified rather than printing them as fact. Confirm before you cross the river, because getting back is not instant.
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A day in Commewijne: plantations, forts and flat cycling
Across the river from Paramaribo lies the old plantation belt — flat, quiet, and the most rewarding day trip from the city. Here is what is actually there, and how people get across.
Updated 21 August 2026
Three days in Paramaribo
A workable three-day plan: the UNESCO inner city on foot, a day across the river in Commewijne, and a third day that depends on what you want from Suriname.
Updated 21 August 2026
Other historic sites
See allFort Zeelandia & Stichting Surinaams Museum
A 17th-century Dutch pentagonal fortress on the Suriname River bank in central Paramaribo, now housing the Stichting Surinaams Museum with colonial-period collections and period rooms.
Historic Inner City of Paramaribo (UNESCO World Heritage site)
The historic centre of Paramaribo is a UNESCO World Heritage site inscribed in 2002, covering a former Dutch colonial town of the 17th and 18th centuries whose original street plan and over 250 monuments survive.
Mosque Keizerstraat (Moskee Keizerstraat)
A large mosque on Keizerstraat in central Paramaribo, in its present form dating from 1984, standing immediately next to the Neveh Shalom Synagogue.
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Information on this page is sourced from Wikidata, Wikipedia (nl).
- Wikidata · coordinates, existence · read 21 August 2026
- Wikipedia (nl) · established, hours · read 21 August 2026
- Openluchtmuseum Fort Nieuw-Amsterdam (Q100530088) — Wikidata · existence · read 21 August 2026