Summary Beginning of the journey in Saint-François: on the beach a Guadaloupean man is singing a creole song dedicated to the brave Guadaloupean men who joined the General de Gaulle in 1940: it's Fred Fred-André Deshaies, singer of the trio "Soft" : then we are in Pointe-à-Pitre: Sophie and Fred visit the market (soursop, avocado,etc): then they see the wall fresco dedicated to the victims of the may 1967 riots.Then they meet near the bandstand Joel La Rochelle and Philip Sadikalay, the other two members of Soft.: they speak with Sophie about the "Gwo Ka", this typical music of Guadeloupe: Originally the drums were used by slaves to communicate with other slaves and little by little was born the "Gwo-Ka". a music with percussion.We meet Félix Flaurin , a drum maker who explains that barrels coming Europe were then used to make drums.Besides the "Gwo-Ka" means also dancing:Nadia Pater of the "Akademiduka" is animating the dance lessons in this Academy.Then Sophie travels to "Les Abymes"; she meets Alin Fleurival a fighting cock trainer and later they go to a cockfight where people spend money in bets (Sophie notices the absence of the women in this event).Later Sophie meets Paul Jasmin, a fashion designer inspired in the traditional clothing of the Guadeloupe.Sophie will meet Pau at Anse-Bertrand for a dinner on the beach, a great family meeting with music and food (green bananas).Then Sophie meets Guy, her guide for the mangrove: the local mangrove is composed mainly of red mangrove trees where the small fishes can find protection against bigger fishes, also the mangrove protect the coasts against the strong waves caused by a hurricane or a tsunami.Then Guy and Sophie see a mangrove islet with many birds on the trees: on the top brown pelicans, in the middle magnificent frigatebirds and below cattle egrets (these birds are using these trees as dormitory o nesting places).Later Sophie meets Bernard Vicens, a marine archaeologist: there are about 400 wrecks of sunken ships and little by little the people know the history of Guadeloupe.Then Sophie meets Céline Dessert, a geologist who is observing the volcano of La Soufrière: Sophie and Céline climb to the top of the volcano, there are many fumaroles and Céline takes samples of gases for study (now the volcano is quiet).Finally Sophie meets again the trio Soft in the evening. Guadepoupe is a land of immigration: we meet Gilles Guibrunet who has left France and lives since 7 years in Guadeloupe, he is bus driver, journalist and volley-ball coach for the children of the area and speaks perfectly creole.We meet also Indo-Guadaloupean people; when slavery was abolished, the owners of sugar cane plantations look for people of India : about 35.000 people have come to Guadeloupe: they have very discreet Hindu temples and they are discovering again their cultural roots.

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