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 · North Commewijne
Plantage Resort Frederiksdorp
A restored 18th-century coffee and later cocoa plantation on the Commewijne River, designated a monument in 2004 and now operating as a resort with a small district story museum and a heritage walking trail.
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- overnight excursions
- history interest
- river trips
Frederiksdorp is a restored plantation on the Commewijne River, established in 1747 by Johan Friedrich Knoffel as a coffee estate and switched to cocoa in 1873 when coffee prices fell. In 2004 it was designated the first monument and heritage site outside Paramaribo.
Two things on the site are worth going for. The Boni Trail, opened in 2022, is an educational walk about slavery that follows the eighteenth-century freedom fighter Boni — a serious piece of interpretation rather than a decorative feature. And the restored director's house holds a story museum built from the accounts of people from North Commewijne.
Frederiksdorp is both a heritage site and a working resort, which is why it turns up in accommodation listings as well as day-trip itineraries. We file it as an attraction because the plantation and the trail are the reason to come; if you are booking a room, expect the same place.
Nothing here is a short hop from the city: this is a river trip in Commewijne, usually taken as part of a longer day.
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Other historic sites
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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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- Plantage Resort Frederiksdorp · attraction, established, existence, status · read 21 August 2026