After our adventures in Guyana we stopped over in Suriname for another week of lazying. The well-known hotel Torarica was a treat, just as shoe shopping for some Brazilian heals and chilling at Palmentuin (open again after deadly tree-falling incident). Uncle Eugene and Aunt Ursi took us on a daytrip to New Amsterdam where we walked through the open-air museum and old jail. It wasn’t the last jail cell we would see from the inside!
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Back in French Guyana we stayed in Kourou (to find out we’re missing out on a rocket launch by days) and took a catamaran to Iles du Salut, three islands in the Caribbean sea that were used as a penal colony by the French.
It turned out to be on of the highlights of our trip, not only was it our first swim in the sea but we also slept in a jail cell JUST LIKE BACK HOME!
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Swinging palm trees, a constant 28 degrees, blue sea waters and the ruins of the penal colony scattered across the islands. Macabre, intriguing and beautiful at the same time.
Thousands of inmates were held in deplorable conditions, most of them died. We had a chance to sling our hammocks in one of the cell blocks, amidst the ambiance of death, despair and magical escape stories like Pampillon’s.
We swam close to the shark infested part of the sea where the dead inmates were thrown in. Brian picked up some odd looking stones of the sea’s bottom (bones?!) and walked into isolation cells at night, being scared only by one far-jumping Agouti.
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It was a great experience and we should have maybe stayed a bit longer…
We are now in Cayenne, its our final couple of days in the Guyanas. The trip has been doubley-awesome and we’ll forever look back at it as happy and good times. We arrive in France on Tuesday morning and in Holland around midnight. Looking forward to seeing you all again and to start planning our wedding ceremony. CHEERS TO NEW ADVENTURES!
Love,
Elvira and Brian
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