Peperpot Nature Park

What you'll find now: 820 hectares of dense rainforest, winding waterways, and a biodiversity that quietens even experienced naturalists. Around 40 per cent of all bird species in Suriname have been recorded here — more than 300 species in total. And that's before counting the sloths, the monkeys, the caimans and the rarer reptiles.

Peperpot is easy to reach, but it isn't ordinary. You either see it up close or you don't see it at all.

What you'll find here

• Birds you won't see this close anywhere else
  The Blood-colored Woodpecker, the Arrowhead Piculet, the Agami Heron — Peperpot has built an international reputation as a birding site, and not without reason. From the 12-metre viewing tower you look straight into the canopy. Early morning and dusk are when the birds are at their most active. Anyone coming properly for the birds takes the birding tour: exclusively outside regular opening hours, with an expert who knows where to be.
• Monkeys guaranteed, sloths almost always
  Squirrel monkeys and capuchins are all but certain. With a bit of luck you'll also spot the three-toed sloth up in the canopy, porcupines along the bank, or smaller monkeys moving through the undergrowth. On foot you get closest — quiet, slow, and at their pace rather than yours.
• Kayaking through old plantation waters
  Where there were once coffee fields, winding waterways now run through the rainforest. On a kayak you glide through soundlessly — past overgrown banks, under overhanging branches, close enough to the water to see what lives in it. The kayak tour lasts 5.5 hours and is available as a morning or an evening tour.
• The park after closing time
  When the regular visitors leave, Peperpot changes. Frogs, snakes, opossums and night birds take over. The evening tour — with a head torch and boots — is a different experience from anything you see by day. Accessible only on a guided tour.