After spending some fun time in Tulear, we flew back to Tana. It's roughly a 17 hour grueling drive and flying seemed so 'civilised'.
We're now back in the capitol. Our pocketbooks are a smidgeon lighter, but we are still interested in looking at more goods. We thought we had already seen everything this dealer had, but we did not count on his influence in the local market. There were goods shown to us on our final day [shown below] that we had not seen earlier.
Here's a full view of one spread. All Garnet, mostly Almandine - but really they just mix it all together - probably because it is all found together and is in the same color range.
Then, from time to time we are surprised again. We 'cherry-picked' some goods from the parcel.
Roger - I have thoroughly enjoyed your African trip - may I ask - was it arranged thru an agent who regularly operates these tours?
ReplyDeleteI would love to do one to east africa and one to India and Sri Lanka!
Robyn Hawk
http://tucsongemshow.blogspot.com
Hi Robyn,
ReplyDeleteA long-time friend of mine, Jim Fiebig [sellmorecolor.com], is who handled all the leg work for the Mada trip to make it run smoothly and comfortably. The Tanzania trip, [we just returned] was facilitated by Hubert Heldner of Switzerland.
Can visit Fiebig in the Zultanite booth at AGTA Tucson. For Hubert, he will be in the Mawingu Gems booth at the Pueblo Show at Riverpark Inn. They are both awesome to work with and I would go again.
Roger