Guiana is a great country with so many things to do:

When you arrive in Guiana the first thing you’ll see are trees. Guiana is covered in dense rainforest. You might also notice that all the satelite dishes point straight upwards, instead of the typical horizontal slant. It's a really strange combination of high tech and no tech. I went from visiting the space station, seeing the vulcan engines which propel a small building through the atmosphere at a speed 8 times the speed of sound, and the rocket boosters which are 50 meters tall, and wearing protective clothing in sensitive satelite rooms, to sitting in the jungle without electricity (let alone internet) for days and days.

The jungle:

There are a few ways of seeing the jungle, but by far the most interesting is the overnight stay. After a day of hiking through the jungle in remote Kou, you come to a small encampment with little tree houses. Beware of the food stealing monkeys..

Hmong Village -

After the Indo-China wars France brought a lot of the refugees back from Vietnam. One particular group were the Hmong (From the same people as those in Clint Eastwood’s Grand Torino). The Hmong live in a small town an hour south of Cayenne. Walking through the streets of the village you may as well be walking through the streets of rural Vietnam; the food, dress, architecture and people still look really Vietnamese.

Caiman searching -

The caiman is a type of alligator, with a shorter snout and less protruding teeth. In a boat ride along one of the many jungle ‘criques’ the guide spots the caimans. On our boat the guide spotted tiny caimans from 70 yards away while driving at top speed! The boat ride isn’t just about caimans though: anacondas and other snakes, tons of birds, sloths, monkeys, and huge insects are all common sights.

The Islands -

There are three small islands off the coast of Guiana - nicknamed 'The Devil's Islands'. This is because of the fortified prison that stood there from the early 19th century until 1946. The prison was mainly for political prisoners, and today stands as colossal and overgrown ruins.