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 Paramaribo27 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam33 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam26 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam30 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam27 views
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Suriname: inside Fort Niew Amsterdam28 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 186029 views
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Suriname: monument to East Asian (Indian) immigrants inside Fort Niew Amsterdam25 views
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Suriname: Helen walking along the defensive bank of the star-shaped Fort Niew Amsterdam25 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 originally27 views
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Suriname: The restaurant that we ate lunch at during our river tour day22 views
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The pier at the old plantation with young Dutch female tourist in our tour group26 views
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Souvenir shop at old plantation23 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 building26 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 building24 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 waters28 views
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Suriname: The former manager's house on this old plantation22 views
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Suriname: this domed patio was used to dry coffee leaves25 views
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Suriname: an old sugar cana plantation building constructed on stilts to protect against floods23 views
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Leaving Panama City airport for Asuncion, Paraguay27 views
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our rental car32 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)24 views
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Helen in front of our rental car parked at our hotel26 views
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walking towards downtown Asuncion from our hotel29 views
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outside the old central railroad station29 views
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outside the old central railroad station26 views
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Inside the old central railroad station31 views
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Inside the old central railroad station30 views
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Inside the old central railroad station30 views
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Inside the old central railroad station35 views
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Inside the old central railroad station32 views
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Inside the old central railroad station29 views
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Inside the old central railroad station24 views
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Inside the old central railroad station25 views
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The Asuncion Cathedral31 views
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Walking through downtown Asuncion; Our first view of the Paraguay River30 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 independence35 views
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Strolling alongside the Paraguay river during our 5 mile walk. 30 views
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Strolling alongside the Paraguay river during our 5 mile walk. It was nearly 100F and Helen was getting heatstroke.25 views
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The Lopez Palace in Asuncion as seen from the Paraguay River26 views
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The Lopez Palace in Asuncion as seen from the Paraguay River29 views
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The old Puerto de Asuncion.27 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,30 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 181131 views
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An abandoned steam locomotive on a street in Asuncion not far from the historic but now defunct central railway station36 views
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Eating out at O Gaucho steak restaurant in Asuncion, Paraguay. We drove here about 20 minutes from our hotel25 views
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Our first sight of Iguazu Falls, Brazil33 views
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Iguazu Falls, Brazil32 views
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Iguazu Falls, Brazil29 views
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Iguazu Falls, Brazil24 views
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Iguazu Falls, Brazil38 views
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