Grande Marriage Noctural Ceremonie Tour

This is a noctural tour

You assist to the most famous traditional event of the Comoro island

learn from the guide how important is the major wedding in Comoro island population

The history of the unfinished houses that people can see around the island, the family has to build a house for the first oldest daughter but they have to begin the house construction earlier just soon when the daughter is born and this house continues stone by stone, stone by stone until when the daughter is grown up and ready to be married

There are many unfinished houses as many daughters are not married yet in the island

These ceremonies involve a very considerable fortune for the parents of the daughter

Bride groom will offer the dowry for the bride which can be often three cows, goats, gold rings, earrings, necklaces and bracelets

also a important some of many

But the family of the wife provide the house as the Comoros is a matriarchal society

Only the daughters inherats the house and the land plantations from the mothers but the boys do not inherit any property. They have to work very hard to aford a dowry for a wife and live in the wife house

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Start a noctural tour depart from the hotel and drive to the wedding ceremonie site

assist at the traditional wedding festival dances to appreciate the rich patrimonial heritage of the island community

Arrive in the village and head to the public square where the nobility people welcome you to have great coffee and cocktail before joining the nobles village tribe and the dancers performing the folkloric dances

Have a couple of cultural immersion hours in the village before driving back to the hotel

Package includes: guide, refreshment and coffee,

Package excludes: food not listed, drinks and personel expenses