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- Cayenne
- Capital
- Euro (EUR)
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- 177,562
- Population
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Travel Blogs from Cayenne, French Guiana
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Deux Crepes avec sucre et citron!
... security guard hands me the application form to fill in ready for tomorrow. I walk back to the hotel and then the heavens opened!! I'm in French Guiana during their wet season! I know it rains some in the UK, but imagine all the rain in the UK falling on ...
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Back in the (EU)SSR
... ça est eu facile, mais maintenant je dois faire rire nos suivants Français! Et, même que il semble que ceci est un traduction fait par le Google, j'ai fait moi-même. Els' Haiku Asian/French Cayenne Rockets launching into space Jungle and baguettes ...
Canoes, Taxis, and French Guiana on Foot
... is nothing more than a collection of old faded wood buildings with rusted tin roofs well beyond their prime. A shared taxi in French Guiana means an 8 passenger Renault minivan that leaves when full. "Full" can happen within minutes or within ...
La folie des Hommes
« La forêt précède les peuples ; le désert les suit. » François René de Chateaubriand. Il était visionnaire, le père Chateaubriand. Il ne devait pas s'en douter, mais il a sacrément bien senti comment ...
Et ma France ??
Ce n'est pas parce qu'on est parti pendant 6 mois que notre beau pays, le plus beau du monde, a complètement disparu de notre vie. La France est partout, même modestement !! Les pays Andins : ici, tout n'est ...
Crossing the Sea
... were offered cannabis three times, but somehow managed to resist the temptation. Tomorrow we dock at Degrad des Cannes in French Guyana, where we will begin the next phase of our South American adventure. Peter's Haiku: Sunsets over the sea ...
In with the adventists, out with South America
... them effusely, assuring them I would consider adventism if I ever had a spiritual epiphany. So, I was finally in my final stop, Cayenne, a place I had pointed to on the map and to which all my roads had led. It was strange to feel that I already had one ...
Crossing the Equator
The days seem to be falling astern with great speed. It seems that we rise for breakfast and in the blink of the eye find ourselves sitting down to a wonderful dinner. Where does the time go? So much to do and, it seems, so little time ...
Machetes and Women of Size
... and Guyana were all in the high 80s with a nice breeze and off and on rain to keep the heat in check. French Guiana absolutely cooks and I felt like someone turned on the broiler and then put the microwave on high. Each Guyana...French, Dutch, and ...
je dois amelioré ma française
Officially part of France, speaking french(and various creoles and imported languages), using the Euro and with prices to match Paris. However here, i had the pleasure of sleeping in a hammock on the beach in an indiginous village, watching giant ...
Naar Cayenne voor een Surinaams visum
... hij trekt naar een doe-het-zelf-shop. We wachten er een dik half uur op hem en even later rijden we weer verder Cayenne binnen. We hebben nog pasfoto´s nodig voor ons Surinaams visum en dus laten we ons aan een fotowinkeltje afzetten. Hij wil niets voor ...
Waiting at the garage
... of the garage and so far everything is working. Whilst this was happening we also managed to get one of the hydraulic feet fixed which had again been damaged getting off the ferry. 18th - A last day in Cayenne catching up with some shopping and ...
Une seconde journée à Cayenne
... spatial, îles du Salut, petites balades, visite de la ville, expédition en forêt si possible. On risque ensuite de retourner sur Cayenne autour du 20 Octobre, avant de descendre sur la roue de l'Est en direction de Roura, Kaw, Cacao et Regina. ...
Arrivée à Cayenne
... demande : « vous faites du stop ? ». On répond que oui, et les trois passagers nous proposent de nous amener à Cayenne. Après avoir poussé leur guitare, leur ampli et leurs sacs, on apprend qu'il s'agit de deux métros, Leslie et Thomas, ...
Cayenne again
... , 200 mètres plus loin, et paf, on décolle tout de suite. un rapide changement à Iracoubo, et nous voici partis pour Cayenne. Tout comme dans la pirogue, j'alterne le trajet entre le sommeil et le bouquin de Julie. J'allume aussi mon PC afin d'avancer ...
Première journée à Cayenne
... , on a attendu la liste des gens morts en Guyane, les lieux d’enterrements et les condoléances des familles ! Arrivé à Cayenne, pas de dreadeux aux dents en or. Après 30 minutes d’attente stressante, le voilà qui arrive. Il me voit ...
Travelogue Macapa to Cayenne
... much, in fact the customs guy said I did not even need to show my passport, but I thought it better to. The 198km to Cayenne were a whopping 40€!!!!!!!!!!!! So I thought I would give hitching a go, and was just about to give up being boiled under the ...
Blog & Photos
... and a sailing tack northwards provided us with a good position to re-commence our south easterly progress at a safe distance around Cayenne. another blog entry will follow later today. in the meantime though we would all like to record our thanks and ...
Sunday sailing!
... after the squalls. the general wind direction has not changed enough to the north to enable us to clear the coast at the Cayenne headland - so we are now motor sailing for 12 to 18hours due east to position ourselves for the continued sailing on a course ...
Blog from Karen
Hi to all you Taboo fans out there. It's day 8 of our adventure and we're becoming ever more imaginative in our use of time. Roger's first attempt at baking bread was a resounding success, Graham's salads become tastier and more innovative by the day. My ...
Closing the coast of Brazil
Tuesday 12th January 11.30 Taboo time 06 10.715 N 51 48.895 W currently closing the coast of Brazil on a beam reach at 8.5 boat knots in winds of 30 knots to a distance of about 60 miles. there the depth sharply reduces to a shelf of some 70 metres which ...
French Guyana
Cayenne, French Guyana. Marie was there finishing her internship as a doctor. Manue was following a one year course on ecology and management of tropical ecosystems... That were 2 good excuses to fly to this amazing territory. Lots to be said, ...
Off to see the space ship launch
Yep I am in Cayenne so that the guy I am traveling with can pick up his ticket to see the Arian 5 rocket launch!!!! well jealous as I only found out about it 2 days before and there are no tickets left......... There are public viewing places though so I ...
Devil's Island
... Salvation Islands are Ile Royale, Ile Saint-Joseph & Ile du Diable or Devil’s Island. Originally France planned to colonize French Guiana but found that an impossible task --- they sent over 12,000 people with the temptation of free land and a ...
AU REVOIR GUYANE(FRENCH GUIANA)
... ; When I got back to my Hotel Ket-Tai in Cayenne, I had a message from the Space Centre cancelling my Thursday visit because of the prospective launch this day. I would delay no ...
Devil's Island in French Guiana
... 30,000 survived their experiences in the penal colony. This lasted until the colony was closed in 1953. In recent times, French Guiana has become an important civilian rockets launching site that has placed about half of the world’s commercial ...
Devil's Island
... if the mortality rate of children born on the island was higher than that of children born anywhere else – say mainland French Guiana. Probably it was not and did reflect the high infant mortality of the time. That these children had died is not as ...
BONJOUR FRENCH GUIANA
... river by boat and easily cleared customs. Then it was a 4 hour wait for my minibus to fill up so we could drive to Cayenne, French Guiana. Actually French Guiana is not a country but a department of France! It is difficult typing on this ...
Cayenne - nothing to sneeze at
Well here we are in French Guyana, the southern most part of this sector of the saga. It was a fine day when we left Suriname and headed south for the short hop. We got in before the predicted SHRA so all in all a great flight. ...
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