A TRIP TO THE “ILES DU SALUT”

A TRIP TO THE “ILES DU SALUT”

A TRIP TO THE “ILES DU SALUT” Salvation Island Located some 10 miles (8 nautical miles) off the coast of Kourou, the Ile Royale, Ile St-Joseph and Ile du Diable (Devil Island) form an archipelago that once was one of the most infamous penal colonies in the world....
EXPLORING THE MARONI RIVER – 1 DAY

EXPLORING THE MARONI RIVER – 1 DAY

EXPLORING THE MARONI RIVER – 1 DAY Trip Schedule Full-day River Tour (9.00am to 5.00pm) – St Jean du Maroni, Apatou and the “Saut Hermine” rapids 9.00am – Your departure meeting point is our landing stage at St Jean du Maroni (a 15 minutes’ drive from St...
EXPLORING THE KAW SAVANNAH

EXPLORING THE KAW SAVANNAH

EXPLORING THE KAW SAVANNAH Exploring the Kaw Marshes on pirogue To the south-east of Cayenne lies a broad strip of marshland bordered on its south by the mountains of Kaw and La Gabrielle. This marshland – known as the Kaw savannah – is inhabited by teeming and...
A TRIP TO THE HMONG VILLAGE OF CACAO

A TRIP TO THE HMONG VILLAGE OF CACAO

A TRIP TO THE HMONG VILLAGE OF CACAO The Hmong people The Hmong people are an ethnic group from South-East Asia often treated as pariahs in their native Laos and Vietnam. Upstream from Saut Bief along the Comté River, Cacao is the place where the Hmong community came...