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Ganvie gets quite a few tourists now, and some of the people who live there are fed up with being photographed every time a tourist boat comes past. In the main streets, which are quite wide, you are not so close to the houses. But in some of the narrower streets you are quite close.
It is mostly the women who object, probably because they are the most photographed as they wear very colourful clothes. Some of them cover themselves up while others wave their hand at you to tell you not to photograph them. The children don't seem to mind and will smile and wave sometimes.
Written May 6, 2008
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