Bush Travels

After a long journey, first by land and then by river, June and her companions arrived at their destination in the bush—the village of Dan Paati, where the groups stayed in huts and slept inside mosquito nets.

The next morning, June awoke to an eerie landscape along the Suriname River.

Misty jungle mornings along the Suriname River would be perfect, quips June, for a vampire movie set.

Later in the day, boats brought local boys home from school. Few village girls are educated; many marry as young as age 12. June learned that menstruating girls and women must stay in a menstrual hut and cannot walk through the village during their time of the month. Meanwhile, men are allowed multiple wives.

Village boys return from school.

Village women wash clothes on rocks as June looks on.

Entertainment was provided by workers from the village—colored bandanas around a woman's waist in Dan Paati mean that she is married.

June said goodbye to Suriname, contemplating her next jaunt, knowing that Quota is making a difference in this developing nation.

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