Living on a former Roca today. Roca (Plantation) Agua Ize
Once owned by Barao de Agua Ize, second largest Roca in Sao Tome with 2.000 contract workers, a whole village of its own with hospital, school, church, houses for the workers and for processing of cocoa beans, warehouses, a plantation railroad for collect...
Truly fascinating.
What a unique and 'diamond in the rough' place in the world.... Hugely appreciate you taking the time to share these images with us here! Cheers, Filip
Yes imagine 2000 workers and their families on this site
working on cocoa. STP is called chocolate islands.
A pity that it is falling apart and nobody cares… Still has charm - but how long…?
Thanks for sharing the beautiful pics… 👍🏻😃
Good question. Not very long I fear. Maybe tourism industrie can safe.
Some rocas are hotels today.
Thanks for this nice reminder
I worked there in the late 90ties. It was quite romantic to just light up some palm oil in empty cocoa fruits as our main source of lighting and get "offline" for a couple of days by moving the suitcase size satellite phone by a view cm ,,,. These photos ...
No, no chance to go there. But I want to.
Met the manager of Bom Bom yesterday. Nice guy.
