2025_So_America_Odyssey_II
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam. We reached this fort by a river trip on a small boat that departed Paramaribo10 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam14 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam8 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam14 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam9 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam9 views
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Suriname: monument to Indonesian immigrants inside Fort Niew Amsterdam. The artist chose to honor their flip-flop footwear. These immigrants were all imported to work on the sugar plantations after slavery was abolished around 186011 views
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Suriname: monument to East Asian (Indian) immigrants inside Fort Niew Amsterdam6 views
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Suriname: Helen walking along the defensive bank of the star-shaped Fort Niew Amsterdam10 views
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Suriname: This other plantation has been given a new life as a beef producing ranch. Was formerly a sugar plantation like most of the plantations here originally11 views
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Suriname: The restaurant that we ate lunch at during our river tour day11 views
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The pier at the old plantation with young Dutch female tourist in our tour group10 views
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Souvenir shop at old plantation8 views
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Complex of old plantation buildings. This particular plantation has been resurrected as a tourist destination including a small hotel which has been established in an old wooden plantation building8 views
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Complex of old plantation buildings. This particular plantation has been resurrected as a tourist destination including a small hotel which has been established in an old wooden plantation building7 views
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The plantations were land grants in the 17 and 1800's given as strips of land several hundred meters wide and 5km deep. As shown in this photo, they were protected by dikes to keep back the river's flood waters11 views
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Suriname: The former manager's house on this old plantation7 views
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Suriname: this domed patio was used to dry coffee leaves9 views
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Suriname: an old sugar cana plantation building constructed on stilts to protect against floods9 views
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Leaving Panama City airport for Asuncion, Paraguay8 views
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our rental car11 views
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Helen in front of our rental car parked at our hotel looking at the tire that was indicating low pressure (it was not low, bad sensor)6 views
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Helen in front of our rental car parked at our hotel9 views
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walking towards downtown Asuncion from our hotel9 views
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outside the old central railroad station11 views
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outside the old central railroad station10 views
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Inside the old central railroad station9 views
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Inside the old central railroad station9 views
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Inside the old central railroad station9 views
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Inside the old central railroad station11 views
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Inside the old central railroad station13 views
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Inside the old central railroad station11 views
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Inside the old central railroad station8 views
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Inside the old central railroad station9 views
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The Asuncion Cathedral9 views
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Walking through downtown Asuncion; Our first view of the Paraguay River13 views
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Monument to Paraguay's independence from Spain. It was the first of the Spanish colonies in South America to declare independence13 views
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Strolling alongside the Paraguay river during our 5 mile walk. 14 views
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Strolling alongside the Paraguay river during our 5 mile walk. It was nearly 100F and Helen was getting heatstroke.8 views
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The Lopez Palace in Asuncion as seen from the Paraguay River10 views
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The Lopez Palace in Asuncion as seen from the Paraguay River14 views
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The old Puerto de Asuncion.12 views
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The old Puerto de Asuncion. Asuncion is located on the Paraguay river which is a major shipping route, though this far from the ocean, goods have been offloaded onto barges,12 views
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Lopez Palace. Palace used by the family that ran Paraguay during much of the 1800's after it's independence from Spain in 181113 views
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An abandoned steam locomotive on a street in Asuncion not far from the historic but now defunct central railway station11 views
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Eating out at O Gaucho steak restaurant in Asuncion, Paraguay. We drove here about 20 minutes from our hotel10 views
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Our first sight of Iguazu Falls, Brazil11 views
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Iguazu Falls, Brazil13 views
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Iguazu Falls, Brazil12 views
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Iguazu Falls, Brazil10 views
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Iguazu Falls, Brazil15 views
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