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Tourist trinket vendors in Ambositra.
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Narcisse Shows us the wood inlay process.
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When Narcisse found out we were honeymooners he inlayed a heart pendant for us!
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Narcisse - Inlay Genius!
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The woodshop.
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Fan - our tour guide for the second half of the trip.
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Building where metal pots are made.
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Waiting for the molten metal.
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Making a tightly packed sand cooking pot form.
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Hand shaping the cooking pot form out of volcanic sand.
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Two men stand on the form barefoot, while the other man pours molten aluminum.
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Pot after cooling.
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Pots for sale!
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Cooking pot store in the Madagascar cooking pot manufacturing center: Ambatolampy.
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We bought a cooking pot at this store.
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Loading up for the commute.
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Stopping for lunch at Independence Ave. in Antsirabe. A monument memorializing the 18 tribes of Madagascar
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Metal from an engine being melted down to make a cooking pot. (Laura iPhone photo)