Peperpot Bicycle Tour (Suriname)

From the bike rental company you cycle to the Plattebrug, where you board a wooden tent boat to Meerzorg. From Meerzorg you cycle via the East-West connection to Peperpot. This plantation was established in the early 19th century by the Jansen family as a coffee and cocoa plantation. The factory complex has two plantation houses, a coffee barn and a coffee and cocoa factory. Production continued until 1996. There is also a kampong (settlement) with workers’ houses inhabited by Javanese, although people have found work elsewhere. You can still recognize the coffee and cocoa trees, which today are covered with bromeliads, orchids, and creepers, and the animals have reclaimed the area. Peperpot is popular with bird lovers, but if you’re lucky, you may also encounter tamarins, capuchin monkeys, and sapakaras (giant lizards) on one of the trails that have been laid out right through the plantation.