Rémire-Montjoly is the coastal commune next to Cayenne, and where people from the capital go for the beach. The Plage de Montjoly and Plage des Salines are long stretches of grey-gold sand backed by scrub, where leatherback and green turtles nest between March and July.
Behind the beaches, the Sentier du Rorota is the best short walk near the capital: a loop of about six kilometres through secondary forest and past two reservoirs, with sloths, monkeys and toucans if you go early. At the other end of the commune, the Habitation Loyola is the ruin of a Jesuit plantation that was one of the richest in the colony, with its chapel, workshops and sugar works being excavated and opened to visitors.
It is fifteen minutes from central Cayenne, and the airport road passes through it.