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20 octobre 2014

The Gesture Festival

The Gesture Festival

I'm a member of a community called Couchsurfing. The idea is to put up travellers and backpackers on your couch for a night or two, show them around a bit and make their stay more interesting than if they were in a hotel room on their own. It also works...

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Tags: mayotte, boat, jewellery, chiconi, festival, craft, gesture, october, wood

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15 décembre 2011

Bouéni Jolie

You often see girls and women here with m’zindzano on their faces. It’s a beauty mask made from sandalwood ground on a pure coral table, mixed with a little water. The table is made of one piece of coral, and often weighs 3 or 4 kilograms. It is the fine...

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Tags: mayotte, ceremony, coral, mask, photo, beauty, boueni, mdzindzano, jewellery, cosmetic, mzindzano, paste, sandalwood, skin

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10 décembre 2011

Christmas Market

Christmas Market

There was a Christmas market today in front of the M’biwi Café, just down the road from us. I thought a Christmas market by 32°C sounded interesting, so I went along after work to see what sort of things were up for sale. The first thing that struck me...

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Tags: mayotte, food, papaya, clothes, mzungu, postcard, colour, basket, christmas, jewellery, juice, market, pineapple, tortoise

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