Suriname is the smallest country in South America and the only one where Dutch is the official language. Paramaribo's wooden colonial center is a UNESCO site, and the interior is dense rainforest reached mainly by river, with nature reserves such as Brownsberg and the Upper Suriname river villages.
The guides on this page cover Suriname as a whole. The dry seasons — roughly February to April and August to November — are the practical windows for interior travel. Yellow fever vaccination is commonly required or recommended depending on origin, and malaria precautions apply in parts of the interior. Most trips into the rainforest are arranged through operators rather than independently.