This remote village of a few similar houses, just holding out against dense tropical rainforest, lies on the border line between that part of the world that can be reached by car and that part that can not. Once, early 20th century, this must have been a lively and rough town: the first place where money could be spent by the gold and rubber collectors of the age. Passing this village, the last on the long dirt/mud road from Paramaribo, you need a boat to continu several days along the Saramacca river into Matawai tribal areas. Here are Maroon villages, i.e. villages of descendants of 18th Century run-away slaves. Unlike in Brazil or Jamaica, some 20,000 Maroons are still living in Suriname 's rainforest having retained their most original and traditional Afro-American culture.