Cacao is a village of Hmong farmers in the hills an hour and a half south of Cayenne, beyond Roura, and on Sundays it is one of the most popular outings in French Guiana. The Hmong arrived in 1977 as refugees from Laos, and were settled here to farm; the village they built, of wooden houses on stilts along a single road above the Comté river, supplies much of the territory's fruit and vegetables.
The Sunday morning market is the point: bowls of soupe chinoise eaten at trestle tables, spring rolls, embroidery and basketwork. There is also a small insect museum, Le Planeur Bleu, with an exceptional collection of Guianese beetles and butterflies, and swimming in the river below the village.
Go early, and go on a Sunday — on other days the village is quiet and most of it closed.