RE: 🤳 Captive Subjects Make For Great Photos 👨👩👧👧 & Trespassers Don't Make Good Campers ⛺
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When thinking of inaccessibility, Suriname has to rank #1 of all the countries I've been too, you can even be on a paved road right next to a forest that is impenetrable.
Reading this, made me think of why the Maroons were able to prevent being recaptured by the colonizers or were at least making it way harder for the captors to reach them. Hasn't changed much since then. The population is also relatively small and focuses on the city life.
This is also the reason why when traveling more and more to the South campers go in groups and/or by bus and sometimes students when going on field trips to certain areas in the woods, they need to bring a security team with them. There was one instance during my university days, that a group of students on excursion were robbed, which is why the security measure.
Those robbing stories would never happen here, a lot of petty crime, probably much more here than in Suriname, but serious violent crimes like hold-ups and armed robberies are almost unheard of.