Visit the pride of Suriname: the Blanche Marie waterfalls. Also discover Apoera: a real interior village !

The Blanche Marie waterfalls are one of the greatest treasures of Suriname. On this website you will find more information about Apoera and waterfalls. You can also book your trip through this website.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Apoera:

The Asian peoples, who tens of thousands of years ago on the ice of the Bering Strait entered the American continent eventually populated South-America. Many thousands of years later were called the Indians, because Columbus had discovered the wrong continent. That in the distant antiquity a paradisiacal place was found by Indians, that is now known as Suriname.

An island in a river with crystal clear water, a few hundred meters downstream of an impressive group waterfalls. That river was filled with the tastiest fish in waters of God, and the jungle around filled the animals, that with arrows and stone axes could be outfoxed. All kinds of types of forest and nature could be collected in the vicinity of fruit a rich and varied diet, and the plants, lianas, shrubs and trees in the forest gave medicines for almost all ailments. In short, life on Earth but there was as good as it could get. Ancient Indians had to be happy people.

Why their offspring are no longer living, is a puzzle, in which the answer in the fog of prehistoric times is gone, but on that island in the year 1984 the evidence that they have been there whas found: seven ten point gift stone axes, neatly stacked on top of each other in a shallow pit. Not far from there was later a grinding quarry discovered, where the axes were probably created. Historians observed that it was an interesting historical find, but also they could not unravel the secret of this abandoned settlement.

But the current residents understood only too well why that Indians from ancient times to this place had a correctly identified community, because the island is today even paradise as it is in the distant past had been. This is already there since years and day a holiday resort, where foreign tourists and stressed city dwellers can enjoy the beautiful surroundings, and casts in the River, where the water is still crystal clear. Above the waterfalls are river banks uninhabited, so that the drinking water from the taps of Dubios Guesthouse to the Blanche Marie falls in the Bakhuys mountains, is pumped directly from the River.

But this paradise is now even richer than in long bygone times when the Indians still lived: the Guesthouse offers comfortable sleep opportunity for hundred-forty guests, who there if they so wish can enjoy cooled by air conditioning. Spacious, well-stocked kitchens, bath-and recreation venues, radio communication with the outside world and even create video to the Guesthouse where there is a Shangri-La of the twentieth century. One piece more modern comfort is here unneccesarry: for a jacuzzi there is no fashionable technology needed.

In the mid- walk on a romantic forest trail to the falls flows, a part of the River with a great speed on flat, smooth rock plates. In small, by the water carved cavities can host a natural water massage where no high-tech bubble bath can deal with.

The canopy of the forest giants ensures coolness, even in the middle of the day when the sun is at it’s hottest point….

…. the howler monkeys roar in the distance, frogs, crickets and other animals that are awake at night in the Woods give a matchless concert and the river itself in the background. The only scourge of Surinamese forest, the malaria mosquito, will be of no bother for there is no sign of it on the island.

Jan Bos, the West 1996.