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Travel - Guinea Bissau

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  • Selling their salt in a nearby market. Silt from the surrounding fields, bathed by the salty ocean waters, carry a concentration of salt that these women filter with fresh water, boil it in a big flat pan which, after all water has evaporated, salt remains on the pan. These women produce around 5 ton of salt a year and are a main contributor to the local economy.
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  • People gathering around the holy man in Bafata-Oio village, Aladji Fode Mai Toure, expecting his blessing and listening to his advice. Locally known as "Homem Grande", meaning 'great man', serving as a community and local leader. Half of the population are considered to be muslim.
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  • Crossing of the river Farim. The pirogue (canoe) is still an essential mean of travel since many roads inland are in poor condition. Almost 20% of the territory of Guinea Bissau is covered by water, rivers and canals offer a viable and cheap form of transportation of people and goods.
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  • People gathering around the holy man in Bafata-Oio village, Aladji Fode Mai Toure, expecting his blessing and listening to his advice. Locally known as "Homem Grande", meaning 'great man', serving as a community and local leader. Half of the population are considered to be muslim.
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  • The holy man in Bafata-Oio village, Aladji Fode Mai Toure. Locally known as "Homem Grande", meaning 'great man', serving as a community and local leader. Half of the population are considered to be muslim.
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  • A hot and lazy afternoon in front of the old Presidential Palace, still a wreck since the civil war that hit the country in 1998.
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  • Men chat and wait around the house of the holy man in Bafata-Oio village, Aladji Fode Mai Toure, expecting his blessing and listening to his advice. Locally known as "Homem Grande", meaning 'great man', serving as a community and local leader. Half of the population are considered to be muslim.
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  • A general view over the Bandim market and the swarming busy crowd along the Airport Avenue. At Bandim you can buy and sell almost anything and a large number of West African vendors with all sorts of merchandise.
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  • People gathering around the holy man in Bafata-Oio village, Aladji Fode Mai Toure, expecting his blessing and listening to his advice. Locally known as "Homem Grande", meaning 'great man', serving as a community and local leader. Half of the population are considered to be muslim.
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  • An elementary school, or primary school, as seen in Ingore. Children are crammed into old desks and attend class in poorly maintained classrooms. The very first university in the country opened in 2003, almost 30 years fater the country claimed independence from the former colonizer, Portugal.
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  • A woman cooking lunch with red tomatoes at the Djalikunda center, an NGO house near K-3 village.
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  • An elementary school, or primary school, as seen in Ingore. Children are crammed into old desks and attend class in poorly maintained classrooms. The very first university in the country opened in 2003, almost 30 years fater the country claimed independence from the former colonizer, Portugal.
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  • Armando, one of the many tailors in Cacheu, working under the porch outside his shop. Throughout the country tailoring is a popular and common occupation among men.
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  • An elementary school, or primary school, as seen in Ingore. Children are crammed into old desks and attend class in poorly maintained classrooms. The very first university in the country opened in 2003, almost 30 years fater the country claimed independence from the former colonizer, Portugal.
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  • An elementary school, or primary school, as seen in Ingore. Children are crammed into old desks and attend class in poorly maintained classrooms. The very first university in the country opened in 2003, almost 30 years fater the country claimed independence from the former colonizer, Portugal.
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  • View of the local market at Ingore.
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  • The hands of Mr Dembo, tailor in Bijene. Tailor is very popular craft among men in Guinea Bissau.
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  • A woman cooking lunch with red tomatoes at the Djalikunda center, an NGO house near K-3 village.
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  • A young woman selling lemons in a street of Bijene, posing for a photograph.
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  • A woman walks by down the road to Farim.
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  • View of the local market at Ingore.
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  • A breed of vultures, called by the locals 'Jagudi' fly away early morning at Djalinkunda center, an NGO house near K-3 village.
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  • The owner of a pharmacy close to the local market in Ingore. Health facilities are scarce in this interior region of Guinea Bissau.
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  • A view of downtown Bissau and the late afternoon traffic in the streets.
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  • An elementary school, or primary school, as seen in Ingore. Children are crammed into old desks and attend class in poorly maintained classrooms. The very first university in the country opened in 2003, almost 30 years fater the country claimed independence from the former colonizer, Portugal.
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  • Crossing of the river Farim. The pirogue (canoe) is still an essential mean of travel since many roads inland are in poor condition. Almost 20% of the territory of Guinea Bissau is covered by water, rivers and canals offer a viable and cheap form of transportation of people and goods.
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  • Early in the morning children gather in front of the school and lineup to sing the national anthem before the teacher. Most school facilities in the country are in poor conditions.
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  • Early in the morning children gather in front of the school and lineup to sing the national anthem before the teacher. Most school facilities in the country are in poor conditions.
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  • Children climbing a statue of Nuno Tristao, Portuguese explorer. These statues of the Portuguese colonial days were removed from their places all over the country with independence, and now rest abandoned in the margins of the river Cacheu.
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  • Soldiers show the Volkswagen Beetle that belonged to Amilcar Cabral, the Guinean independence hero, which the historic PAIGC leader was driving when he was assassinated January 20th 1973, now abandoned in a corner of the Amura fortress, presently used as an army barrack.
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