# Switi Tours

> Owner-operated tour company in Paramaribo, Suriname. Half-day and full-day guided tours, food, history, plantations, nature and diaspora roots research, sold directly to travellers rather than through booking platforms. Guiding in Dutch, English and Sranan Tongo, in groups of 2 to 8 people.

## Entity facts

- Business: Switi Tours
- Type: tour operator / travel agency (TravelAgency, LocalBusiness)
- Location: Paramaribo, Suriname (5.8232, -55.1679)
- Areas served: Paramaribo, Commewijne district, Para district, Brokopondo district
- Languages of guiding: Dutch (default), English, Sranan Tongo
- Currency quoted: EUR. Cash accepted on the day in SRD, EUR, USD
- Booking: direct only, enquiry form, email (hallo@switi-tours.com) and WhatsApp. Not listed on Viator, GetYourGuide or similar.
- Payment: 20% deposit to reserve, balance in cash on the day
- Cancellation: free up to 48 hours before departure
- Website: https://swititours.com (Dutch at the root, English under /en/)

## Price summary

A three-hour guided walking tour of Paramaribo costs EUR 35 per person. A four-hour Paramaribo food tour costs EUR 45 per person including six to eight tastings. Full-day trips range from EUR 60 (Colakreek, 8 hours) to EUR 95 (Brownsberg and the Brokopondo reservoir, 11 hours). For comparison, on Viator in August 2026 a Paramaribo City Tour started at USD 163, Commewijne plantation tours ran USD 169–295, and a Brownsberg day trip cost USD 233. Viator listed roughly 26 experiences for the whole of Suriname.

## Tours

- [Paramaribo Food Tour](https://swititours.com/en/tours/food-tour-paramaribo/): 4 hours, EUR 45 per person. Six kitchens inside three kilometres, from the fish hall to saoto in Blauwgrond.
- [Historic Centre Walking Tour](https://swititours.com/en/tours/stadswandeling-paramaribo/): 3 hours, EUR 35 per person. From the cells of Fort Zeelandia to the synagogue that shares a plot with a mosque.
- [Blauwgrond by Night: warung hopping](https://swititours.com/en/tours/blauwgrond-avondtour/): 3 hours, EUR 39 per person. Saoto, satay, petjil and dawet. Four warungs, three hours, no menus.
- [Sunday Morning in Paramaribo](https://swititours.com/en/tours/zondagochtend-paramaribo/): 4 hours, EUR 42 per person. Songbirds at seven, Javanese market at eight, breakfast at nine.
- [Cooking class: market to table](https://swititours.com/en/tours/kookles-markt-tot-tafel/): 5 hours, EUR 55 per person. You pick out the pomtayer yourself, and five hours later you eat it.
- [Commewijne: plantations and river](https://swititours.com/en/tours/commewijne-plantages/): 7 hours, EUR 75 per person. A neat white director’s house looking straight at a cell.
- [Colakreek: swimming in blackwater](https://swititours.com/en/tours/colakreek-dagtrip/): 8 hours, EUR 60 per person. Black water, white sand, and you can see your feet on the bottom.
- [Brokopondo & Brownsberg](https://swititours.com/en/tours/brokopondo-brownsberg/): 11 hours, EUR 95 per person. Leave in the dark, stand at five hundred metres by ten.
- [Roots & archives: finding your own family](https://swititours.com/en/tours/roots-en-archieven/): 6 hours, EUR 85 per person. The 1863 emancipation registers in the morning, the place itself after lunch.
- [Tailor-made: family and interior](https://swititours.com/en/tours/maatwerk-familie-binnenland/): varies, price on request. For three generations at once, or a village on the Upper Suriname.

## Surinamese food reference

Paramaribo is one of very few cities where Javanese, Hindustani, Creole, Chinese, Maroon and Indigenous kitchens sit within one walkable area. Individual dish pages, each with origin, description and an indicative street price in Surinamese dollars (SRD):

- [Roti](https://swititours.com/en/food/roti/): Roti is a Surinamese-Hindustani dish of a thin griddled flatbread served alongside chicken, potato, long bean and masala. A plate in a Paramaribo roti shop typically costs SRD 80 to SRD 180 (roughly €2–€5).
- [Pom](https://swititours.com/en/food/pom/): Pom is a Surinamese baked dish of grated pomtayer, a taro-like root, with chicken, onion, tomato and citrus juice. It is Jewish-Portuguese in origin and counts as the celebration dish of Suriname: no birthday happens without it.
- [Saoto soup](https://swititours.com/en/food/saoto/): Saoto is a Javanese-Surinamese chicken soup: clear yellow broth with beansprouts, fried potato slices, fried onion, smoked chicken and half an egg, with sambal on the side. In Blauwgrond a bowl typically costs SRD 70 to SRD 150.
- [Bara](https://swititours.com/en/food/bara/): Bara is a flat fried Surinamese-Hindustani snack of ground urad beans and flour, soft inside, usually eaten with sour sauce or sambal. On the street in Paramaribo one costs roughly SRD 10 to SRD 30.
- [Moksi alesi](https://swititours.com/en/food/moksi-alesi/): Moksi alesi is a Surinamese Creole one-pot dish of rice with chicken, salted meat, long bean and beans, its name meaning literally "mixed rice" in Sranan Tongo. A plate in a Paramaribo Creole eating house typically costs SRD 90 to SRD 180.
- [Bakabana](https://swititours.com/en/food/bakabana/): Bakabana is fried plantain in a thin batter, nearly always served with peanut sauce. A portion on the street in Paramaribo costs roughly SRD 15 to SRD 40.
- [Telo](https://swititours.com/en/food/telo/): Telo is fried cassava, usually served with bakkeljauw, salt cod soaked and fried, and sambal. A portion on the street in Paramaribo costs roughly SRD 40 to SRD 100.
- [Heri heri](https://swititours.com/en/food/heri-heri/): Heri heri is a Surinamese dish of boiled plantain, cassava and sweet potato served with salt cod and egg. It is eaten above all on 1 July, Keti Koti, which commemorates the abolition of slavery in Suriname in 1863.
- [Bami](https://swititours.com/en/food/bami/): Surinamese bami is a Javanese-Surinamese dish of fried noodles with chicken, cabbage and kecap manis, sweeter and darker than Indonesian bami goreng. A plate in a warung typically costs SRD 60 to SRD 140.
- [Peanut soup](https://swititours.com/en/food/pindasoep/): Surinamese pindasoep is a thick, creamy soup of ground peanuts with chicken or salted meat, almost always served with tom tom: balls of pounded green plantain. A bowl in a Paramaribo Creole eating house typically costs SRD 90 to SRD 180.
- [Petjil](https://swititours.com/en/food/petjil/): Petjil is a Javanese-Surinamese dish of briefly steamed vegetables such as beansprouts, long bean and cabbage under peanut sauce. It is vegetarian by default and costs SRD 50 to SRD 120 in the warungs of Blauwgrond.
- [Dawet](https://swititours.com/en/food/dawet/): Dawet is a Javanese-Surinamese cold drink of coconut milk, palm sugar syrup and green strands of pandan jelly, served over ice. A glass in a Paramaribo warung typically costs SRD 25 to SRD 60.
- [Pastei](https://swititours.com/en/food/pastei/): Surinamese pastei is a savoury pie filled with chicken, peas, carrot, gherkin and sometimes egg: a Dutch inheritance that in Suriname belongs to Christmas and New Year.
- [Bojo](https://swititours.com/en/food/bojo/): Bojo is a Surinamese cake of grated cassava and coconut, dense and moist in texture, usually with raisins and a shot of rum. A slice at a Paramaribo market costs SRD 30 to SRD 80.
- [Phulauri](https://swititours.com/en/food/phulauri/): Phulauri are fried balls of ground yellow split peas with garlic and cumin, eaten with sour sauce or chutney. Vegetarian, and SRD 10 to SRD 30 a portion on the street in Paramaribo.

## Places and attractions

- [Fort Zeelandia](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/fort-zeelandia/): Fort Zeelandia is the oldest structure in Paramaribo, built from 1640 on the bank of the Suriname River, and now houses the Surinaams Museum. It is also where fifteen critics of the military regime were killed in December 1982.
- [Palm Garden](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/palmentuin/): The Palmentuin is a free city-centre park in Paramaribo with hundreds of royal palms, originally laid out in the seventeenth century behind the Presidential Palace. Howler monkeys sit in the trees before 09:00 and after 16:30.
- [Central Market](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/centrale-markt/): The Central Market on the Waterkant in Paramaribo is the largest market in Suriname, with vegetables, spices, fish and meat on the ground floor and clothing and household goods above. Entry is free and the stalls are fullest between 07:00 and 11:00.
- [Waterkant](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/waterkant/): The Waterkant is the oldest street in Paramaribo: a row of white timber merchant houses along the Suriname River, part of the UNESCO-protected townscape and the best-known place in the city to watch the sun go down, year-round between about 18:15 and 18:45.
- [Independence Square](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/onafhankelijkheidsplein/): Independence Square is the central square of Paramaribo, ringed by the Presidential Palace and government ministries. On Sunday mornings between 07:00 and 09:00 it hosts the twa-twa songbird contests.
- [Synagogue beside mosque](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/synagoge-en-moskee/): On the Keizerstraat in Paramaribo the Neveh Shalom synagogue of 1842 and the Ahmadiyya mosque stand directly next to each other on the same plot, and have done for over a hundred years. There are very few places in the world where that is true.
- [Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/kathedraal/): The Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in Paramaribo, with twin towers of 44 metres, is one of the largest entirely timber church buildings in the western hemisphere. It was consecrated in 1885 and the interior is unpainted cedar.
- [Blauwgrond](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/blauwgrond/): Blauwgrond is the Javanese neighbourhood in northern Paramaribo, about four kilometres from the centre, and the culinary heart of the city: the warungs there run from around six in the evening.
- [Peperpot Nature Park](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/peperpot/): Peperpot Nature Park is a former coffee and cacao plantation eight kilometres outside Paramaribo, given back to the forest, and one of the most reliable places in Suriname to see three-toed sloths, best between 07:00 and 10:00.
- [Fort Nieuw Amsterdam](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/fort-nieuw-amsterdam/): Fort Nieuw Amsterdam is a pentagonal fort completed in 1747 at the fork of the Suriname and Commewijne rivers, now an open-air museum with casemates, cannon and a former prison.
- [Frederiksdorp plantation](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/frederiksdorp/): Frederiksdorp is an eighteenth-century coffee plantation on the Commewijne River, about 35 kilometres from Paramaribo, where the director’s house, the police post and the prison cells all still stand: one of the few Surinamese plantations preserved as a whole.
- [Colakreek](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/colakreek/): Colakreek is a blackwater creek in Para district, about 50 kilometres south of Paramaribo near Zanderij. The water is translucent red-brown from tannins in fallen leaves, and is shallow, cool and safe to swim in.
- [Brownsberg Nature Park](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/brownsberg/): Brownsberg Nature Park sits on a plateau of about 500 metres on the western edge of the Brokopondo reservoir, 130 kilometres south of Paramaribo, and is one of the best places in Suriname for howler monkeys, squirrel monkeys and toucans.
- [Brokopondo reservoir](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/brokopondo/): The Brokopondo reservoir was created in 1964 when the Afobaka dam closed the Suriname River. Roughly 1,560 square kilometres of rainforest was flooded without being logged first, and about six thousand people, largely Saramaccan Maroons, lost their villages.
- [Jodensavanne](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/jodensavanne/): Jodensavanne on the Suriname River was a Jewish plantation settlement from the seventeenth century with its own synagogue, Beracha Ve Shalom, built in 1685. The ruin and the cemeteries can still be visited.
- [National Archives of Suriname](https://swititours.com/en/attractions/nationaal-archief/): The National Archives of Suriname in Paramaribo holds the emancipation registers of 1863, the immigration registers of Hindustani indentured labourers from 1873 and Javanese from 1890, and civil registration, the core sources for Surinamese genealogy.

## Plantations

Former plantations in Suriname, written for people tracing family history. Where
a plantation appears in the 1863 emancipation registers or the indenture
immigration registers, the page says so, because that is what a diaspora
researcher is looking for. These were sites of slavery and the pages do not
soften that.

- [Mariënburg plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/marienburg/): Mariënburg in Commewijne was laid out in 1745 by Maria de la Jaille, bought by the Nederlandsche Handel-Maatschappij in 1882 and turned into the largest sugar enterprise in Suriname. The first 94 Javanese indentured labourers, who landed on 9 August 1890, were sent straight here.
- [Frederiksdorp plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/frederiksdorp/): Frederiksdorp on the Commewijne River was laid out in 1747 by the Prussian Johan Friederich Knöffel, produced coffee until 1873 and cacao after that, and is one of the few Surinamese plantations where the police post and the prison cells survive.
- [Peperpot plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/peperpot/): Peperpot, on the right bank of the Suriname River, is one of the oldest plantations in the country, laid out between about 1651 and 1660, and produced sugar, cacao, coffee, cotton and finally citrus until the business stopped in the 1990s. Fifty-one people were freed here at the emancipation of 1863.
- [Alliance plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/alliance/): Alliance in Commewijne was formed in 1829 when the Scot Adam Cameron merged two worn-out coffee estates and turned to sugar; 502 people were freed here in 1863, and between 1873 and 1929 it employed 2,016 Hindustani and 2,136 Javanese indentured labourers.
- [Rust en Werk plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/rust-en-werk/): Rust en Werk on the Commewijne River was laid out in 1750 by the later governor Wigbold Crommelin, and for genealogy it is one of the richest estates in the country: 430 people were freed here in 1863, under 166 family names.
- [Katwijk plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/katwijk/): Katwijk on the Commewijne River was granted in 1746 to Alida Maria Wossink, then thirteen years old, and is today the only working coffee plantation left in Suriname; 159 enslaved people were held there in 1759 and 127 were freed in 1863.
- [Johan en Margaretha plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/johan-en-margaretha/): Johan en Margaretha on the Commewijne River, called Kerkigron in Sranan, belonged from 1757 to 1779 to the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of Paramaribo, which bought the estate together with the people enslaved on it as a source of income. In 1863, 255 people were freed here.
- [Zorg en Hoop plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/zorg-en-hoop/): Zorg en Hoop on the lower Commewijne, laid out in 1747, is the plantation where Hindustani indentured labourers rose on 24 September 1884 and where the twenty-four-year-old Janey Tetary was shot in the back of the head at close range on 26 September.
- [Zoelen plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/zoelen/): Zoelen on the Commewijne River was founded in 1749 by Constantinus Gerardus Nobel and baron Willem Hendrik Pieck of Zoelen; 115 people were registered as freed here in 1863, and in September 1884 a revolt of indentured labourers was put down by the army.
- [Reynsdorp plantation (Bakkie)](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/reynsdorp-bakkie/): Reynsdorp on the Warappa creek, better known since the early twentieth century as the village of Bakkie, was a coffee estate holding around a hundred enslaved people; by the emancipation of 1863 production had stopped and only five people were declared free there.
- [Voorburg plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/voorburg/): Voorburg on the Suriname River, directly beside Fort Nieuw Amsterdam, was laid out around 1750 as garden ground for the fort and then became a sugar estate; at the emancipation of 1863, 195 people were registered there, filed under borderel PL213.
- [Dordrecht plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/dordrecht/): At the Dordrecht estate on the Suriname River, 152 people were declared free on 1 July 1863, and their new surnames almost all begin with a B, an E or an S: the initials of the three owners Brakke, Evertsz and Van Sypesteyn.
- [Visserszorg plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/visserszorg/): Visserszorg on the Commewijne River was first granted land in 1743, switched from coffee to sugar in 1792, and in 1863 ranked among the largest estates in the country with 286 people freed under 77 family names.
- [Accaribo plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/accaribo/): Accaribo, on the left bank of the Suriname River in Para district, was founded in 1671 by the second governor of Suriname, Philip Julius Lichtenbergh; 139 people were freed here in 1863 under 35 family names, and 268 Hindustani and 162 Javanese indentured labourers worked there afterwards.
- [Berg en Dal plantation](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/berg-en-dal/): Berg en Dal, on the left bank of the Suriname River in Brokopondo, began in 1713 as a military post against Maroon attacks, became a sugar plantation in 1722 and later a timber estate, and held 315 enslaved people at the emancipation of 1863.
- [Jodensavanne and its plantations](https://swititours.com/en/plantations/jodensavanne/): Jodensavanne on the Suriname River in Para district was the centre of a Portuguese Jewish planter community that by about 1700 held some 9,000 enslaved people across its estates; the Beracha Ve Shalom synagogue was inaugurated in 1685 and the site was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2023.

## Practical travel information for Suriname

- [Visas and entry](https://swititours.com/en/practical/visum-en-inreizen/): To visit Suriname as a tourist you need a passport with sufficient validity on arrival plus, depending on your nationality, either a tourist card or an e-visa. The rules have changed several times in recent years, so check them shortly before departure.
- [Money and payment](https://swititours.com/en/practical/geld-en-betalen/): The currency of Suriname is the Surinamese dollar (SRD). In practice cash is the norm: markets, warungs, taxis and small shops take cash almost exclusively. Bring euros or US dollars to exchange locally.
- [Safety](https://swititours.com/en/practical/veiligheid/): Suriname is generally safe for tourists, with crime rates lower than most neighbouring South American countries. The incidents travellers actually experience are overwhelmingly pickpocketing and petty theft in busy parts of Paramaribo.
- [Health and vaccinations](https://swititours.com/en/practical/gezondheid-en-vaccinaties/): For Suriname, yellow fever vaccination may be required depending on your route, and malaria precautions mainly apply to stays in the interior rather than Paramaribo. Get advice from a travel clinic at least six weeks before departure.
- [Getting around](https://swititours.com/en/practical/vervoer-in-paramaribo/): In Paramaribo you get around by taxi (no meters, so you agree the fare first) or by private minibus, and the historic centre is walkable at about a kilometre end to end. Outside the city a hire car or an organised tour beats public transport.
- [Internet and SIM cards](https://swititours.com/en/practical/internet-en-simkaart/): Suriname has two mobile operators, Telesur and Digicel. A local prepaid SIM or eSIM is by far the cheapest option, because Suriname is not covered by EU roaming and standard roaming charges are high. WhatsApp is the normal business communication channel here.
- [What to pack](https://swititours.com/en/practical/wat-neem-je-mee/): For Suriname, pack light but long: thin long sleeves against mosquitoes, repellent with DEET, a rain jacket even in the dry season, shoes with grip for the forest, and cash in small notes.
- [Flying to Suriname](https://swititours.com/en/practical/vliegen-naar-suriname/): From the Netherlands you fly direct to Johan Adolf Pengel International Airport (PBM), about 45 kilometres south of Paramaribo. The flight takes around nine hours and the time difference is four hours in European summer and five in winter.

## Public holidays and festivals

- [Keti Koti](https://swititours.com/en/festivals/keti-koti/): Keti Koti falls on 01/07 each year. Keti Koti falls on 1 July each year and marks the abolition of slavery in Suriname on 1 July 1863. It is a national public holiday; the name means "chains broken" in Sranan Tongo.
- [Independence Day](https://swititours.com/en/festivals/onafhankelijkheidsdag/): Independence Day falls on 25/11 each year. Suriname became independent from the Netherlands on 25 November 1975. The day is called Srefidensi in Sranan Tongo and is a national holiday with a military parade, processions and fireworks.
- [Holi Phagwa](https://swititours.com/en/festivals/holi-phagwa/): Holi Phagwa is the Hindu spring and colour festival in Suriname and a national public holiday. The date moves each year with the lunar calendar and falls in late February or March.
- [Divali](https://swititours.com/en/festivals/divali/): Divali is the Hindu festival of lights and a national public holiday in Suriname. It falls in October or November and is marked by rows of diyas, small clay oil lamps, set along pavements, low walls and verandas.
- [Javanese Immigration Day](https://swititours.com/en/festivals/javaanse-immigratiedag/): Javanese Immigration Day falls on 09/08 each year. On 9 August Suriname commemorates the arrival of the first Javanese indentured labourers in 1890; between 1890 and 1939 around 33,000 came from the Dutch East Indies. It is a national public holiday, celebrated most strongly in Blauwgrond and Lelydorp.
- [Hindustani Immigration Day](https://swititours.com/en/festivals/hindostaanse-immigratiedag/): Hindustani Immigration Day falls on 05/06 each year. On 5 June Suriname commemorates the arrival of the ship Lalla Rookh in 1873, carrying 399 Hindustani indentured labourers from British India. It is a national public holiday, and the Lalla Rookh monument on the Waterkant marks the spot.
- [Owru Yari](https://swititours.com/en/festivals/owru-yari/): Owru Yari falls on 31/12 each year. Owru Yari is New Year’s Eve in Suriname and is celebrated during the day: from around midday, enormous pagaras, strings of firecrackers sometimes tens of thousands long, are set off in central Paramaribo.
- [Chinese New Year](https://swititours.com/en/festivals/chinees-nieuwjaar/): Chinese New Year has been an official national holiday in Suriname since 2014, recognition of a Chinese community present since 1853. The date moves each year and falls in late January or February.

## Best time to visit, month by month

Suriname has four seasons: the long dry season (early August to early December), the short rainy season (early December to early February), the short dry season (early February to late April) and the long rainy season (late April to early August). Daytime temperatures sit between 30 and 33 °C all year.

- [Suriname in January](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/januari/): 30 °C, ~210 mm rain. A good month for the city, less ideal for the interior: January falls in the short rainy season, with showers most days that are brief and usually arrive in the afternoon.
- [Suriname in February](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/februari/): 31 °C, ~150 mm rain. One of the better months to come: February starts the short dry season, with less rain, none of the summer crowds, and Holi Phagwa often falling late in the month.
- [Suriname in March](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/maart/): 31 °C, ~155 mm rain. With February and October one of the best months to come: March sits in the short dry season, dry enough for the interior and quiet enough to get in anywhere.
- [Suriname in April](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/april/): 31 °C, ~200 mm rain. Dry in the first half, turning to the long rainy season in the second. Book interior trips early in the month.
- [Suriname in May](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/mei/): 30 °C, ~300 mm rain. Fine for a city trip built around food, and the cheapest and quietest time of year: May sits in the middle of the long rainy season and is the wettest month.
- [Suriname in June](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/juni/): 31 °C, ~290 mm rain. Quiet and cheap, with Hindustani Immigration Day on 5 June: still the rainy season, but drying out towards the end of the month.
- [Suriname in July](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/juli/): 32 °C, ~230 mm rain. The busiest month: Dutch summer holidays plus Keti Koti on 1 July. The rainy season is ending. Book everything well ahead.
- [Suriname in August](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/augustus/): 33 °C, ~150 mm rain. The long dry season begins, which is the best travel window of the year. Also the busiest: Dutch summer holidays plus Javanese Immigration Day on 9 August.
- [Suriname in September](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/september/): 33 °C, ~80 mm rain. With October the driest month of the year, and quiet once the Dutch schools go back. The best combination of weather and price.
- [Suriname in October](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/oktober/): 33 °C, ~80 mm rain. The best single month if you have to choose: dry, clear, and Divali often falls in October. Only the Dutch autumn half-term causes a brief spike.
- [Suriname in November](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/november/): 32 °C, ~120 mm rain. Still dry, and the liveliest month of the year thanks to Independence Day on 25 November. The diaspora travels en masse, so book early.
- [Suriname in December](https://swititours.com/en/best-time-to-visit/december/): 31 °C, ~190 mm rain. The short rainy season begins, but December is mostly about the crowds: Christmas, New Year and Owru Yari. For atmosphere it is the best month of the year.

## Itineraries

- [1 day in Paramaribo](https://swititours.com/en/itineraries/1-dag-paramaribo/): With one day in Paramaribo you do the Central Market and old town before nine, a walking tour from 16:00 to 19:00 once the sun eases, and Javanese food in Blauwgrond in the evening. Budget €74 per person for tours.
- [3 days in Paramaribo](https://swititours.com/en/itineraries/3-dagen-paramaribo/): Three days is enough for the historic centre, the Commewijne plantations and a food tour, in that order. The tours in this plan come to €155 per person.
- [5 days in Suriname](https://swititours.com/en/itineraries/5-dagen-suriname/): Five days based in Paramaribo covers the historic centre, the Commewijne plantations, Brownsberg with the reservoir, Colakreek and a food tour. The tours come to €310 per person.
- [Family visit with children](https://swititours.com/en/itineraries/familiebezoek-met-kinderen/): Four days for Surinamese-Dutch visitors travelling with children: one day for family, one roots day at the National Archives, one swimming day at Colakreek and one cooking day. €200 per person in tours.

## Notes on accuracy

- Prices in EUR are our own and current as of 2026-08-18.
- Prices in SRD for street food are indicative ranges, not tariffs; the Surinamese dollar moves quickly.
- Competitor prices cited are Viator listings checked on 2026-08-18.
- Visa, health and safety information should always be verified against official sources; our pages name which source and when they were last checked.
- Holidays following lunar calendars (Holi Phagwa, Divali, Chinese New Year) move each year. We deliberately state a window rather than a date. Do not infer a specific date from this file.

## Contact

- Email: hallo@switi-tours.com
- WhatsApp: +597 000 0000
- Enquiries: https://swititours.com/en/contact/