French Guiana travel guide: Your trip to French Guiana starts here.

Routes, destinations and cities in French Guiana, with things to do, when to go and how to get there.

2 destinations 2 districts 3 cities

Across Cidade Turismo: 26 countries · 78 routes · 306 destinations · 913 cities

In the photo: Place des Palmistes — Caiena

Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.

The guide

French Guiana, city by city

Cidade Turismo is a travel guide built city by city, now also in French Guiana. For each place you'll find things to do, attractions with their own page, when to go and how to get there.

The guide has three ways in, so you can start wherever you like: routes, which link towns along one journey; destinations, which are the tourist regions; and the districts, with the main cities in each one.

The texts are written from official tourism sources, such as national and regional tourism offices, national parks and city halls, and new cities and routes keep being added to the guide.

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Routes

Tourist journeys linking cities and destinations. Each route has a map, legs, how many days and the best time to go.

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In the photo: Île Royale — Ilhas da Salvação

2 destinations

Destinations

The tourist regions in French Guiana, each with its towns: things to do, when to go and how to get there.

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3 cities in 2 districts

Districts and cities

The guide by district: each one with its destinations, cities and routes, and each city with its attractions.

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The destinations in French Guiana

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Tap a patch to open the destination. The star marks the capital.

Contornos: IGN e data.gouv.fr (ODbL 1.0). Adaptação do Cidade Turismo.

Where to start

Cities to discover today

Six cities from the guide, changing every day.

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni · Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni

Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni is on the bank of the Maroni River, on the border with Suriname, and was founded in 1858 as the center of French Guiana's penal camps. The restored Camp de la Transportation offers guided visits; the official district preserves colonial brick and wooden buildings; and from the riverside pirogues depart for Albina and for villages upriver.

Caiena · Caiena, Kourou and the Ilhas da Salvação

Kourou

Kourou is on the coast, about 60 km from Caiena, and grew up around the Centro Espacial Guianense, Europe’s launch base. The base offers guided tours by reservation; the Guyaspace Expérience shows how rockets and satellites work, and boats to the Ilhas da Salvação, with the ruins of the old prison, depart from the port. On the waterfront, the Pointe des Roches shelters the Tour Dreyfus.

Caiena · Caiena, Kourou and the Ilhas da Salvação

Caiena

Caiena, the capital of Guiana Francesa, sits on a peninsula between the Caiena River and the Atlantic. The old center brings together wooden creole houses around Place des Palmistes and Place Léopold-Héder, the Cathedral of Saint-Sauveur, the Alexandre-Franconie Museum and the central market, and Forte Cépérou dominates the city from the top of the hill. To the east, Rémire-Montjoly has the nearest beaches.

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About Cidade Turismo

What is Cidade Turismo?

A travel guide to French Guiana organized into routes, destinations, districts and cities. Each city has things to do, attractions, when to go and how to get there.

What is the difference between a route, a destination and a city?

A route is a journey linking several towns. A destination is a tourist region with its towns. A city is the place itself, with its attractions.

Are the pictures in the guide real?

They are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it. Photos sent by travelers are shown separately, as travelers' photos.

How do I find a place in the guide?

Type the name in the search box: it can be a route, destination, district, city or attraction. Or start from Routes, Destinations or Districts and cities in the menu.

Is the guide available in Spanish and English?

Yes. Destinations already translated are available in Spanish and English at cidadeturismo.com, and the rest are being added.

Is there an app?

Yes, for Android, on Google Play. With it you can save the destinations you want to visit and get the guide's news.