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{SPEAKER name="Lisa Chickering"}
Suriname is certainly a land of contrasts. Paramaribo has a surprisingly cosmopolitan Dutch air despite its being a stone's throw from the wild, primitive jungle where native indians still hunt with poison arrows and tribes of bush negros still practice ceremonial rights of their African ancestors, as we saw earlier.

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India, Africa, Java, China, and Holland all rolled into one little-known nation.

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Its flag best sums it up: on a white background symbolizing peace, five different colored stars represent the five different races, with an encompassing circle which joins them all together as one nation.

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This trip to the six islands in the country of Suriname really didn't take us a great distance from the United States, as distances go today, but still we felt as though we had been around the world on a most unforgettable journey.
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