Roura is a small creole village on the Oyack, forty minutes south of Cayenne across the Mahury bridge, and it is the door to most of what people come inland for. The D6 climbs from here over the Montagne de Kaw to the landing for the Marais de Kaw; another road runs south to the Hmong village of Cacao; and the rivers that meet below the village — the Oyack, the Comté, the Orapu — are where the canoe and carbet operators put in.
The village itself is a single street of wooden houses along the bank, a nineteenth-century church, and a landing where pirogues tie up. Most visitors pass through, but two things nearby are worth stopping for: the Cascades de Fourgassié on the road to Kaw, a set of rapids with pools to swim in, and the Réserve Trésor on the same road, a private reserve with a botanical trail up the slope of the Kaw mountains and a small maison de la nature at the roadside.
The Kaw road is itself one of the best birdwatching drives in the territory, particularly at dawn, when the ridge is in cloud and cock-of-the-rock and toucans call from the forest on either side.