RE: 🚴 Water Lily Foraging Shenanigans 🌼🌊 Paramaribo, Suriname

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chocolatescorpi in Natural Medicine • 5 years ago

looks like a great day out to me! I love getting dirty and having fun- especially when there's such a tasty reward at the end. I think Monkey B is so lucky to have you and all of the amazing adventures that you do have.

Wow, water lilly soup. I never knew. Can it be any water lillies of does it have to be a certain species?

So although I know that Suriname is not the real home, is there that much difference between it and Cambodia?

Bearing in mind, I haven't been to Cambodia yet- YET and I had never even heard of Suriname until I met JeanLuc on here last year....but it does look gorgeous and quite modern too....though I could be completely wrong....

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justinparke Italist 5 years ago

Thanks for kind words my friend.

I'm no water lily expert, but as far as I know there is only one kind. Here in Suriname they look exactly the same as the ones we used to eat in Cambodia......I assume the Javanese brought them here. I would say Cambodian and Suriname couldn't be more opposite outside of anything other than weather.

Not to be overly negative, but I feel Suriname has taken the worst parts of developed and developing countries, combining them in an inefficient way of life. I would compare Suriname more to a tropical Kentucky. Cambodia is motos and bicycles, here it's fast cars. Cambodians spend their free time on the sidewalk in front of their house ready for any social activity, Surinamers stay inside their homes behind electronic gates and many layers of doors.

Also the socioeconomic divide is huge here, so it's nearly impossible to maintain friendships with people in a higher class than yourself. Local spending power is the worst I've ever seen anywhere in the world. Cambodia is 10 to 20 times cheaper than here, but minimum wage there is double that of Suriname. Also, even compared to Kentucky, Suriname is about 120% more expensive.

Suriname is beautiful, but takes hundreds and thousands of dollars to see that beauty, basically not reachable by the poor. The killer for us was when realized we can't ride 4-deep on a moto here, basically killing any chance to travel as a family anywhere here.

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chocolatescorpi 5 years ago

With my limited knowledge it sounds like too much European influence in a place where European influence shouldn't be...🤔

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justinparke Italist 5 years ago

You wouldn't be completely wrong in that assumption, but I have no love affair with the Americas or the Caribbean. All the countries seem too similar in the way of life to me, although some hotter than others, and skin colors are different, but ultimately the way of thinking and way of life is very similar.

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