<p>Crossing the rapids on the upper-Saramacca river (Suriname).
It takes a few days by such a boat before you reach the first road again. (Because of the strength of these rapids,  whenever I came back from such a river trip into the city I had lost my footwear).
Along these rivers are Maroon villages, i.e. villages of descendants of 18th Century run-away slaves. Unlike in Brazil or Jamaica, some 20,000 Maroons are still living in Suriname 's rainforest having retained their most original and traditional Afro-American culture.
(The damage on the photo/negative is the result of the corrosion inside my camera's film transport mechanism after a few days of similar wet circumstances.)
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(See some more of my photos on Suriname <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=suriname&amp;w=53848312@N00">here</a>)
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/people/53848312@N00">Ahron de Leeuw</a> from Amsterdam, Netherlands
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<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/ahron/148339538/">On Suriname's interior rivers</a>