Editing Tailspins & Tiki Gods:Smoots Guide Porte Cochere (section)

=== La Basse Ville (Low town): ===
This is the unzoned, unregulated part of the town. Basically, the most interesting parts. (Might look a tiny bit like this: http://p4.img.cctvpic.com/program/cultureexpress/20120921/images/1348191552136_1348191552136_r.jpg)

By necessity, it has narrow streets (too thin for a car, unless you wanted to scrape the sides), and few paved ones.

A lot of the houses are wooden, with ‘hatch’ windows held open by poles. Others go out into the edges of the bay, on ‘stilts’ like so: [http://image.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/69090/69090,1295529792,1/stock-photo-rusty-stilt-houses-in-chinese-fishing-village-tai-o-hong-kong-69452518.jpg|photo] )

There is unorganized gambling in everything from ''Pai Gow'' to ''Vingt-et-Un'' to Snakefights, but "you need to know a guy". There are places to eat, but they’re often people’s homes as well.

Out toward the lagoon proper (and salted all along it) you’ll see the small fishing boats where local fisherfolk ( http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/4/6/1302091757736/solomon-islands-letter-006.jpg ) bring back a lot of the town’s food.

Divers sail out to search the lagoons of surrounding out-islands for valuable pearls and sea-cucumber.
A small rope-house at the end of town still has guys winding rope the old-fashioned way (with hempen materials from the hills).

There’s a small, but packed marketplace at the head of the bay, right at the foot of the road that goes up into Haute Ville and on the Fort. There’s no one market day (it’s all day, and- if it’s been too hot in the day- well into the night instead.). It’s a really haggle-intensive place. Francs are the local currency, but pretty much anything you can spend is okay.

-Guides can be hired for a quarter a day. Unless you’re going into the Hill Country. Then you need someone bigger.