I have a pair of cover stories on Suriname in the December 7, 2008 San Francisco Chronicle Travel section. I traveled there last year, and spent a month exploring various aspects of the country. I attended a Passover seder in Paramaribo, and an intertribal gathering of Amazonian shamans in a remote forest settlement near the Brazil border. (I wrote for Wired on Amazonian tribes in Suriname and Brazil using GPS and Google Earth to fight for land rights, and a piece on an innovative Western-traditional community healthcare project ran in Utne Reader). I spent a week with monkey researchers in a rainforest preserve and then flew into an isolated airstrip nearby a gold mining boom town near French Guiana.  Finally, I visited Maroon communities up the Suriname river.

Here are the Chronicle stories:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/07/TRCR13EL21.DTL

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/07/TRCR13EL21.DTL