Note: Remember to visit Noonsite’s St Martin, St Barth’s, Guadeloupe, Martinique and French Guiana Country Clearance pages for country specific information as some countries procedures vary from these overall procedures....

Kourou is a small and fairly unattractive town on the river Fleuve Kourou, about 40 nm north of French Guiana’s capital, Cayenne. Don’t let the town’s appearance put you off....

Update: French Guyana (visit December 2012 – January 2013) We arrived in French Guyana from Mindelo (Cape Verdes) in December 2012. First, we approached the River Mahury on the east...

I have tried to get cleared into French Guiana – but it is not like clearing in anywhere else. I went up the Mahoury River to the marina occupied by...