Select your outward journey date
Select your return journey date

Comoros Culture and traditions Comoros

 
 
Area : 838  sq.mi - Population 798000 hab.
Comoros

Our expert Comoros

map

map Comoros

Weather

Culture and traditions Comoros

 Traditions and customs

Even if there is not much of an opportunity to observe it, you will certainly have heard of the 'Big Wedding', a tradition that continues, particularly on Grande Comore. Men from the higher classes of Comorian society often devote their lives to raising enough money to be able to celebrate this union. It represents the only way of being elected to the rank of a person of note; having social status and being able to participate in the elections. Men have generally reached forty years of age before they can organise the marriage, which is often a second union with a much younger woman. The celebrations last for several days and the husband then spends the rest of his life paying off his debts.

 To read, see, listen

guide Madagascar and Comoros (Lonely Planet Multi Country Guide)
Travellers Survival Kit: Madagascar and Comoros (Travellers Survival Kit, 2006).
books
movies
music