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Shopping vanilla in São Tomé and Principe? Let Yves take you around in his beautiful vanilla plantation and tell the history of vanilla - an intriguing drama from the European colonisation of monopolies and commercial secrets...
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The vanilla plants naturally climb upwards towards the sunlight |
It is necessary to unwind them and force them to climb horizontally |
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| ...otherwise it would be necessary to train monkeys to pick the vanilla.. |
The blue plastic is not garbage but an indicator of fruit ! |
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