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French Guiana

4 Jan

Ilies du Salut (Devils Island), French Guiana

When I was about 7 or 8, I watched the movie Papillon with my parents at the local drive-in theatre in North Ryde. The Steve McQueen/Dustin Hoffman classic greatly impacted me as a young boy, so almost 50 years later, I was excited to visit the islands off the coast of French Guiana, where the movie […]

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19 Aug

Danpaati River Lodge, Suriname

In Surinamese (a combination of Dutch and local language), danpaati means “dam on the parting waters”. The eco-resort is in the middle of the Suriname River, surrounded by thick jungle and small villages mainly inhabited by descendants of African slaves who fled from their captors in the mid-1800s when slave labour was abolished.    From Paramaribo, it’s a two-hour drive to the […]

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