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Sunday 22 March

On sunday Andreas and I (Martin) arranged a round-trip to the waterfalls of Fourgassie and the Montagne de Kaw. The weather was fine. not TO hot, "only" +31°C and no rain (at the beginning). We started in Kourou, via Cayenne to Roura. There we had a little problem to find the right way. Some km later we had to drive to the right, on a not tarred road. That was challenged. We made some (210, thx to the digital world) nice pictures.

After some hours in the jungle we continued the trip along the Montagne de Kaw up to the end of the road at the river of Kaw. There you have to take a boat to the cottage. We stopped there and started for the way back home. And than the rain starts .... ok, we did the trip without getting too wet ;-)

Martin Mueller

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