Chapter 117: The National Museum

There are actually several religions in Niger, but fetishism and Islam are obviously the two most important. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Among them, Islam is the mainstream, so in the capital Niamey, you can see Islamic buildings with Arabic style everywhere, and pork cannot be eaten in Islamic culture, so the people of the country basically do not raise pigs, nor do they eat pigs, and there may only be a few foreign restaurants or hotels for pork for sale in China!

Lin Quan had wanted to find a Chinese restaurant, but the Chinese restaurant existed near the street near the embassy district, but not on the museum's side.

The two ate some hand-grabbed lamb chop rice, ordered some cumin chicken, and came with some lamb skewers, in short, they were all meat, because they were far away from the city when they were on the farm before, so the supply of materials was not very convenient, among which the vegetables were not a big problem, the transportation of vegetables was relatively not so harsh, plus Lin Quan himself planted some vegetables in the farm, and the vegetables were completely self-sufficient, but there was a problem in terms of meat food, and they did not purchase much meat every month, because the transportation was inconvenient, it was not easy to preserve, and the price was high, so they ate less, and now they have the opportunity, they must have a big meal。

Speaking of being able to start a business and make money in Africa, it sounds very good, but in fact, everyone's life is very bad, the infrastructure here is too poor, the conditions are even worse than the rural areas of Lin Quan's hometown, and the facilities of his small county town are even more complete than other people's capitals. And the hardships and discomforts of life here are also difficult to experience.

Since coming to Africa, Lin Quan has darkened a lot, but although he is tanned, he has grown two centimeters taller, and his body has grown stronger, and now his body is much stronger than before.

The two of them ate for more than half an hour at a meal, and this meal ate Lin Quan's 20,000 CFA francs, which was about 245 yuan in RMB, which was really expensive!

After exiting the restaurant, the two paid 5,000 francs for two tickets to the famous National Museum of Niger.

The National Museum of Niger was founded in 1958, covering an area of 24 hectares, an area of relatively large, 20% larger than the National Museum of China, a small African country, or a poor African country, the National Museum is actually bigger than the National Museum of the Great Celestial Empire, where to reason!

So just from the area of this museum, you can see that this museum is indeed extraordinary!

The National Museum of Niger has a relatively rich collection, with nearly 5,000 exhibits, and is one of the famous museums in Africa.

The museum belongs to the Niger Ministry of Culture and Sports, and there are exhibition halls such as biology, prehistory, botany, ethnography, and mining in the museum, as well as a zoo, which contains more than 100 kinds of animals such as hippos, fish, and ostriches, and the two tickets worth 5,000 francs that Lin Quan bought before were actually not museum tickets, but tickets to this zoo, whether you go to the zoo or not, as long as you enter the museum, you have to buy this ticket, which is very cheating!

There is also a small craft village in the museum that manufactures and sells African silver, copper, and wood carvings, and many foreign tourists come here to pick up one or two souvenirs to take home, making it a popular sightseeing spot for foreign visitors.

Lin Quan also came, because it was relatively close, so he spent 500,000 francs here to buy a set of silver cutlery!

The price of silver is relatively cheap, 500,000 francs is only more than 6,500 yuan, and the weight of this set of utensils is about 500 grams, and a gram of silver is only about 13 yuan, not counting the processing fees and so on.

Lin Quan's set of utensils includes a pair of chopsticks, a spoon, and a silver plate, he did not play a bowl, because the bowl is heavier, and the cost is more, and after coming to Africa, he actually learned to use the plate with the locals.

The local Africans eat relatively simply, of course they don't use chopsticks, and rarely bring knives and forks, the simplest tool is their own hands, so they don't use rice bowls to eat, because the rice bowls are relatively deep, inconvenient to grab, their most commonly used utensils are plates, porcelain plates, iron plates, stainless steel plates, silver plates, wooden plates can be used.

In fact, in Europe, the main tableware is actually a plate, and anyone who has been to a Western restaurant can see that others are fighting fiercely with a knife and fork inside the plate, not saying that they are fighting in the bowl.

Africans like to eat directly with their hands, but Niger is relatively short of water, so the cleanliness of their hands can be seen, and with their economic situation, it is estimated that they cannot afford to buy toilet paper...... (It's over, I'm going to be able to eat dinner!Okay, since I can't eat, I'll write more, so you can't eat either!)

In fact, in Islamic countries, it is more common to use hands to eat rice, from Bangladesh in the east to India, Pakistan to Iran and Iraq, and there are also people who eat with knives and forks, not much.

Among them, India is the worst hacked, but it is definitely still

There's something you didn't expect.

In Iran, do you know how they clean up their poop after going to the toilet?

Unlike the third brother, who likes to defecate in the open, Iranians love to be clean.

Iranians generally use clean water and their left hand after using the toilet, which is said to be not only hygienic, but also effective in preventing hemorrhoids and rectal cancer, which is much cleaner than wiping with toilet paper. This custom is more common in Islamic countries, so their toilets are very clean (because no paper is used).

Lin Quan has never been to Iran, these are just seen on the Internet, and when he told Azak, Azak didn't care and said: "This is something that only happens when there is a toilet and a bathroom, and on our side, such a thing will not happen!"

Lin Quan was full of curiosity and asked, "Then how did you do it?"

Azak glanced at Lin Quan, thinking to himself, isn't everyone the same?

"Naturally, we use local materials and use stones, branches and leaves to solve the problem, so we can't waste water like them!"

It makes sense, Lin Quan doesn't know how to refute it!

There are many exhibits in the national park, but the history is not very long, after all, Niger is not a country with a very far-reaching cultural heritage, their history is actually less than 400 years, or after the Europeans colonized here, they brought them writing and language, most of the people who lived here before were scattered tribes, and they were constantly at war with each other, and there was no concept of a country at all.

Sometimes, the European colonizers still did a lot of good things, this is not for the colonizers to wash the ground, the colonization action is indeed very cruel, killing a lot of people, but sometimes the comparison, it is found that the life obtained by Africans after liberation is far less than the colonial era, for example, the East African Star Somalia, this country was a very advanced and developed country 50 years ago, but it didn't take a few years after independence, it became a hell......

They were not ready to run a country at all, so they rushed into battle, and did far less than the colonizers before them.