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Strangers wearing their shoes can't walk on the rocks of Deva Verea sacred cliff. It's only after a ceremony for ancestors that we are allowed to climb down the cliff with fabric covering our walking shoes. Spirits of the forest are powerful, and they look after sacred plants, rocks and cliffs.
Eric Tourneret
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