The bowl on the left contains shea nuts that have been collected from a shea tree.
The buckets on the left are the nuts after they have been boiled and taken out of the shell. The top bucket is after they have been grinded.
Water is then added to the grinded nuts, and the labor-intensive process of kneading the shea nuts into butter begins.
It gradually turns from brown to white as it is mixed. Good quality shea takes less time to mix... this batch only took about 90 minutes.
Then the water and impurities are separated from the butter.
The butter is boiled again for a few hours.
...and then filtered to take out any remaining impurities. Voila, shea butter!
We hiked up to this arch in the afternoon.
hiking on the ridge
we made it! under the arch, overlooking Siby
at the top of the arch
the view
