African village store

• African village store

This is where the colorful, so it is in the general store in the African outback.

Open the creaky wooden door, you enter into the dim little room with a low ceiling, and there ... a child on the counter. Whether it sold, whether he sells ...

He is looking at you curious huge enormous eyes, assesses ...

In general, all well, as in the usual Russian general store. Only blacks sellers, instead of vodka kopek local rum, instead of brick-bread baguette, and the rest are all exactly the same ...

Outside, of course, is not our general store.

In Africa, nearly all trade right from your home. Upstairs live on the ground or a shop, or a snack, either guest room or studio ...

The right wing - the kitchen. Left - shop. By the way, the store sells ready meals, cooked on a nearby kitchen.

Glasses in rural houses in Madagascar there. As unnecessary. Cold in these parts is never, therefore, make sense to throw away money for no glass. When the shop is closed or the owners left home on business, just locked inside shutters. Trade is conducted, as a rule, within the shop, and through the window. Someone as comfortable buying

The inside is very ascetic. Highly.

A low wooden ceiling, shelves with the most necessary.

Keep a wide range of makes no sense, t. To. The needs and capacities of local people is very, very modest.

The trade counter.

Rum is mere penny. 2000 Ariary per merzavchik. It is about 45 rubles.

Water costs about the same. Bottle 1 liter.

Shopping inventory.

Fanta and Mirinda from bottles can be bought in bulk postakanno .... Whew!

to frighten us with its white and hung with cameras overlooking local buyers ...

And this is one of the best pictures from all over the Madagascar trip.

How lucky with this frame!

After a couple of seconds, kids jumped off the counter and ran out of the store ...

And in a minute on the window and at the entrance to the children gathered from all around to stare at the rare visiting white ...