French Guiana Vacations, Tourism and Travel

In the spacious rain forest sloths take a rest while rockets are started nearby, gold seekers try their luck, Kalina Indians live according to their old traditions and even Voodoo is still practised. At the same time people pay with EURO and eat fresh baguettes delivered from Paris. French Guiana, an overseas department of France, is a part of Europe at the North Eastern coast of South America. In the North it borders the Atlantic Ocean, in the East and South Brazil and in the West Surinam. Considered a no man’s land for a long time, it was scaring for tourists because of its history as a French penal colony inspiring among others the autobiographical novel ... [more]