Thursday, December 24, 2009

mountains of fruit!











 


also 9/1/2002:

OK... some basic arithmetic, from last night's dinner:
  • 2 bananas: 25 cfa here / $.50 there
  • 1 papaya: 125 cfa here / $2 there
  • 1 avocado: 50 cfa here / $1 there
  • 1 pineapple: 250 cfa here / $4 there
  • 2 bread-buns: 100 cfa here / $1 there
  • total: 400 cfa here / $8.50 there
$8.50 = 5,950 cfa... that's mountains of fruit!

1 comment:

  1. IMAGE: pineapples... lots of them. for sale, in the side of the road. probably somewhere en route to yaounde or douala. though i'm not exactly sure where i snapped this picture.

    if it isn't clear... what i'm doing in the post above is comparing prices between cameroon and the US. at least what i could estimate. my cameroonian friends found this hard to believe.

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