Nosy Be, Madagascar

Today we unprepared for the poverty and filth. Nosy Be "big island" is in a beautiful setting but is ravaged by unemployment (65%), by lack of education, by sloth and their polygamy and hordes of offspring. We were told that 75% of the population is under twenty-one years of age.
The smelly marketplace was quite a contrast from the day before in Mayotte. We almost lost our breakfast to the flies and odors of the market.