4 new folders in the chapter "Lost Places" : Siemenstadt, Teufelsberg, Animal Food Fabrick, Urlaub Dorf

 

Come a new folder "Autumn" in the chapter "Street of Berlin"

You can discorve, in the chapter "Around the world", one of my first pictures that I took during a trip in South America in 2005 . I post some other in "Lost places", about the cimetery of train in the Salar de Uyuni (Bolivia).

In the early 19th century coffee and cacao were introduced in islands of Sao Tomé and Principe. The rich volcanic soils proved well suited to the new cash crop industry, and soon extensive plantations, known as "roças", owned mainsly by Portuguese companies, occupied almost all of the good farmland. By 1908, São Tomé had become the world's largest producer of cocoa, which remains the country's most important crop.

The roças system, which gave the plantation managers a high degree of authority, led to abuses against the African farm workers.

 After a period of transitional government, São Tomé and Príncipe achieved independence on July 12, 1975. All Portuguese companies leave the island sudently.
Today, buildings are still there, with no one who really take care of it.

Pictures are visible in the folder "Around the world".

After a trip in the island of Sao Tomé, I publish today 2 news folder.



 The first one is present in the chapter "Around the world".

All around the cost of Sao Tomé are waiting fews ships wreck. The legende say that it was a time where the spanish came fishing around the island. Than the law changed and didn't allow them anymore. Why they abandonned 15 boats in Sao Tomé? No idea...but wrecks are still here.

Pictures are visible in the chapter "Lost places".