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  • Day 10

    Princess Anns visit

    October 24, 2017 in Madagascar ⋅ ⛅ 31 °C

    Yesterday we made a visit to the national park where they are attempting to encourage the production of wild silk by netting off areas where the silk worm feeds and produces we were told that princess Ann was visiting today as she's the head of the WWL association the assistants were very excited about her visit and as we were leaving for the bus one of the girls rushed up to me and said "do you know princess Ann is coming to plant a silk worm bush tomorrow "so I answered yes when your presented to her tell her majesty Malcolm sends his apology for missing you as he's on holiday and he'll catch up with you later in the year.
    I just want all this stalking to stop it gets a bit tedious at times.
    later on in the day we visited the family farm where thy take the silk cacoons boil them and hand extract the silk turn it on a bobbin and dye it with plant extract and weave it into scarves and other items
    As you can see this was a very interesting day.
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