Journey to a little-known land: Guyana, overseas territory

Guyana? It's a France at the end of the world that looks nothing like the metropolis, were it not, perhaps, for its yellow mailboxes and a certain taste for roundabouts. Nothing resembles the tender green of our forests less than the emerald of the Amazon. To the quiet chant of the titmice than the cry of the howler monkey at dawn. In our temperate climate this oppressive heat, streaked with torrential rains. Guyana? Neither an island nor another country, we are often mistaken, but the only overseas territory on the South American continent. This immense strip of land is 95% covered with one of the richest primary forests on the planet. For the rest, only water, only water! “Guiana” means “land of abundant waters” in Arawak, a Native American language. Falling from the sky, it is loaded with alluvium in the Amazon and gives the Atlantic its famous coffee color.

It is therefore by the coast that we explore this Amazon…