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10 juillet 2015

Pamandzi

Pamandzi
On my last day in Mayotte, I returned the flat keys in the morning, then went to see the man who was buying the car from me. When he had come to my flat to test-drive the car, he had brought a young mechanic with him, and hadn't actually driven the car...
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Tags: island,  mayotte,  cat,  water,  petite terre,  gite,  last day,  corrugated,  iron,  ramadan,  graffiti,  small,  pamandzi,  chez faida
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1 juin 2015

Nanny, you probably don't want to know what I did last weekend.

Nanny, you probably don't want to know what I did last weekend.
I recently had a couple of acquaintances over. The sort of people who'll give you absolutely no news for a year or so, then suddenly pop up out of the blue saying that they've bought plane tickets to Mayotte and can I put them up. They'd timed their visit...
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Tags: island,  mayotte,  t-shirt,  motorbike,  trip,  area,  moto club,  residential,  sunday
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22 décembre 2014

It's a beautiful place, really.

It's a beautiful place, really.
There have been a couple of rather pretty-pretty series of photos of Mayotte around recently. Two projects, in fact. The first was the Vanilla Islands project: an effort to put forward Mayotte, Reunion and the Seychelles on the touristic scene. We did...
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Tags: island,  mayotte,  beautiful,  coral,  photo,  vanilla,  turtle,  dolphin,  tourism,  tourist,  drone
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27 octobre 2014

Ngazidja

Ngazidja
"Salam aleikoum." "Aleikoum salam. Gawamnono?" "Ndjema, hamdulillah!" I've just got back from a week's holiday in Ngazidja, the largest of the four Comoros islands. They are known as Ngazidja (Grande Comore), Mwali (Mohéli), Ndzuani (Anjouan) and Maoré...
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Tags: island,  mayotte,  house,  holiday,  shop,  construction,  anjouan,  painting,  comoros,  volcano,  grande comore,  hamdulillah,  mitsamiouli,  mohéli,  moroni,  mwali,  ndzuani,  ngazidja,  salam aleikoum,  site
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18 août 2014

Réunion mon amour, part 2 of 2.

Réunion mon amour, part 2 of 2.
We spent a total of four days and three nights in Mafate. There are no roads, the area is only accessible on foot or by helicopter. The name comes from a wizard who used to live in the cirque, and whose speciality was killing people, using just a piece...
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Tags: island,  postcard,  photo,  cold,  group,  reunion,  hike,  cirque,  mafate,  volcano,  fournaise,  neiges,  passport,  piton,  route,  snow,  stamp,  tamarin,  trek,  trou de fer
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11 août 2014

Réunion mon amour, part 1 of 2.

Réunion mon amour, part 1 of 2.
The original plan for July's holiday was a safari in Tanzania. That fell through because it turned out to be extremely expensive and rather difficult to organize. Plan B was a trip to South Africa with P, visiting Johannesburg, Kruger National Park and...
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Tags: island,  airport,  mountain,  shoes,  reunion,  hike,  backpack,  cilaos,  cirque,  hell-bourg,  mafate,  roland garros,  rucksack,  salazie,  volcano
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14 juillet 2014

Hiking around Saziley

Hiking around Saziley
Sunday was a rather hectic day. First, it was the day two of the musicians from the Blue Mango were leaving Mayotte, one forever, the other for a holiday. The one who was leaving forever hadn't been able to come to our last going-away party and I had...
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Tags: island,  mayotte,  food,  water,  black,  white,  beach,  sand,  friend,  walk,  stones,  hike,  saziley
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21 avril 2014

Strange food they have here.

Strange food they have here.
These are banana flowers. They grow on the ends of big banana bunches like below. You have a hundred or so bananas spiralling downwards, and a big purple flower on the end. Lots of people eat yellow bananas. Here, green bananas are a vegetable like any...
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Tags: island,  mayotte,  banana,  food,  green,  yellow,  tree,  flowers,  plants,  bunch,  cooking,  reunion,  stew
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3 juin 2013

Mahoraid

Mahoraid
On Pentecost week-end, like last year, all of the sailing boats in Mayotte who wished could embark on a tour of the island. My musician friend Franck, who owns and lives on a sailing boat, wished. He took a few of his friends and me on his boat with him,...
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Tags: island,  food,  fish,  boat,  sea,  tour,  race,  2013,  drink,  mahoraid,  barracuda
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6 mai 2013

Salama Djema

Salama Djema
Mayotte is made up of two main islands, Grande-Terre and Petite-Terre. Between the two islands, the only means of transport is the ferry, known as the barge. There's even a verb for it: barger. Barging costs 75 centimes for a pedestrian, 2€ for a 50cc...
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Tags: island,  airport,  lagoon,  car,  scooter,  people,  petite terre,  barge,  euro,  ferry,  grande terre,  pedestrian,  salama djema
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