September 2001. We were about twenty french students in forestry, aiming to discover the tropical rainforest, this "green hell" that we were all told about...
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Tropical shower-frog
Visitors in our shower....
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Kite surf on Kourou beach
About thirty kite surfers on the spot in a windy evening...
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Kite surf on Kourou beach
Those guys told us that they use to windsurf, but now that the mud is...
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Fighting in hammocks
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Tropical Rainforest
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Albino Butterfly?
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Tropical Rainforest
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A "crique" in the forest
A "crique" in French Guiana is a small river coming from the forest.
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Tropical Rainforest
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Tropical Rainforest
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Ferralitics tropical soils...
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Macouria Zoo
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Macouria Zoo
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Macouria Zoo
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Macouria Zoo
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Macouria Zoo
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Macouria Zoo
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Salut Island
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Salut Island
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Salut Island
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Salut Island
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Salut Island
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Salut Island
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Salut Island
...A little taste of paradise?
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Salut Island Jail
Hell on a paradisiac island...
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Salut Island Jail
Hell on a paradisiac island...
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Salut Island Jail
Hell on a paradisiac island...
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Salut Island
Hell on a paradisiac island...
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Tropical Rainforest
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Tropical tree
Sophie showing the scale of this tropical log....
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Amarante
Amarante is the name of this purple wood. There is also a wood wich...
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Tropical Rainforest
Hiking in the forest: nothing dangerous exept some insects and snakes,...
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Tarzan
Yes,of course, we tried it. 'Doesn't really work....
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Baby animal
Quite rare to see it because it is an animal living in the top of the...
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Baby Animal
Really feared, calling his mom, but alive: a miracle.
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Baby Animal
The good point was: he is alive. The bad one was that the mother could...
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Baby Animal
Then we saw the mother coming, "running" high on the top of...
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Baby Animal
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Harvested Tropical Forest
In French Guiana, the National Forest Office tries to harvest the forest a...
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"Gabrielle Crique"
Traditionals canoes
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"Gabrielle Crique"
A small river where you can rent canoes and reach swamps paddeling... Really...
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"Gabrielle Crique"
Look at those cute guys paddeling with smile!!!
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"Gabrielle Crique"
The forest as you can see it from the canoes.
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"Gabrielle Crique"
Traditional paddle
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"Gabrielle Crique"
On the canoes......
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"Gabrielle Crique"
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"Gabrielle Crique"
The weather is quite hot, so the girls.....
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"Carbet" atmosphere
The "carbets" are open houses where you can sleep with your hammock
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The hammock...
...just like you would be in it: trying to learn how to sleep "in...
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"Crique"
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Tropical storm coming
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Butterfly under the carbet's roof
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Tropical rainforest
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Only moon
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Tropical tree
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Guianan Spacial Center
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Guianan Spacial Center
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Guianan Spacial Center
Translation is: "The theory is when you know everything, but nothing is...
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South America
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