Traditional Rural Wedding

Our local guide, with the amazing blue headscarf and purple suit, invited us to a friends wedding. It was a huge event and people were tossing coins to see who could join us at the wedding and who had to look after the donkey with our stuff.

We arrive to the groom’s family home just before lunchtime and are immediately invited into a large gathering space constructed out of eucalyptus branches. This is where everyone enjoys the feast, drinks homemade beer, listens to music, dances and takes shade from the daytime sun.

I have to say, meeting the groom and his family, witnessing the food preparation, eating traditional food with either my right hand or an olive stick and drinking beer poured from a giant watering can was unbelievable.