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In an old hut build during the colonial times as a hunting lodge, Then Mari pulls on the rope while his team works on the last few crossties and the smokers. Then Mari's ancestors always used this place as a refuge : his father used it during honey hunting expeditions and his grandfather before him.
Eric Tourneret
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