Cruising from a country you've probably never heard of
Aboard the ship you could be in Paris – but outside it’s lush tropics, canoes and piranhas in the mighty Orinoco River, Clare Colley writes for Sophisticated Traveller.
Ican’t quite decide if it’s a good thing or not, but no one seems to have heard of Cayenne, the place where I’m about to board a cruise ship. The Smart Traveller website is still returning no advice a couple of weeks before departure, and my travel doctor asks me twice where I’m going before consulting a map, as if I’ve made it up.
The Australian Financial Review’s intrepid world editor at least knows Cayenne is the capital of French Guiana, a tiny overseas department of France in South America. However, he’s never visited, despite having spent many years living and working on that continent.
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