Saint Laurent du Maroni, French Guyane

This post is dedicated to my father because one of his favorite movies of all time is Papillon.  The movie takes place is Saint Laurent du Maroni at the transportation camp.  This is the place where the French put all the people who were exiled from France.  Over the course of the camp there were 70,000 prisoners sent here.  The prisoners were ranked on their crime.  Depending on the severity of their crime depended on how much work they had to do at the camp.  It was a small city that had a tourism office that wasn't even open due to lack of tourists.  The views by the river were nice, but more than a day would be too much.  After my day of walking around, I headed back to Cayenne.

went to sleep with this next to my head and luckily it was in the same spot when i woke up

the main church

the bank

apparently the most beautiful building in saint laurent

outside of the transportation camp

riverside

Suriname of the otherside

probably an illegal boat

the prisonguard's house

liked the color

the hospital!!!!!

river next to the camp

flowers

transportation camp

the canteen

in ruins

classes of the prisoners

water well

i was the only one walking around the place

the grounds

the public library for the city was on the former prison grounds

lighty carbonated tea.......people drank this like crazy here

cemetery 

looks like someone recently passed away

riverside

shipwreck

Morocco 

France (already pictured)

France  7150

cute kitten

another one

Clemont