The potatoes feast on loura lady mountain


  1. Mamadou Dian Donghol Diallo, AfricaNews reporter in Conakry
    Loura Lady Mountain is located in Mali prefecture, region of Middle Guinea. It is about 575km away from Conakry. This second highest mountain in Guinea is 1,532m high . Discovered in 1935 by Alpha Mamadou Cellou Dieng, chief of Mali canton at that time,the Loura Lady, is a tourism area. The mountain looks like a woman wearing a long dress.
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    It has a kind face and breast. That is why it is called the Loura Lady. Many tourists go there to watch it. It is really beautiful.
    Moreover, natives organize two big feasts there are twice year: on January 1st and in September. the September feast is called THE POTATOES FEAST because in Mali people grow a lot of potatoes and September is the harvesting month .

    This year the feast had been organized by LOUJA, the natives’ association for the development of Mali. So on Saturday 8th September 2007many people went there to have a good time. There were people from the neighbouring countries like Senegal, Mali-Bamako and other prefectures such as: Labé, Pita, Dinguiraye and even Conakry the capital of Guinea.

    LOUJA organized a big party there and invited the prefect of Mali and other authorities from the ministry of Youth. It was wonderful and people had a good time because they had potato chips, meat and drinks.

    Furthermore, in addition to the beautiful landscape ,Guinea has many other important tourism areas like Sala Water Falls in Diari, le Voile de la Mariée in Kindia, Nimba Mountain (1,752m high )in N’zérékoré, Bel Air in Boffa




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