They had an island night on the ship as we left Vila.
This is the reason Mark wouldn't get in the water. There were thousands of these guys in the water on the way to the beach. There were none at the beach. There were a few announcements to watch out for them. I think that is why Mark was scared of them.
Mark rocking on Island night..jpg)
Vanuatu was known for their cannabalism. The last recorded act was in 1985. This photo should have been placed at the bottom of this section. At one time there was 2 million people on Vanuatu. Now there is only 200,000. There was lots of fighting between tribes for land. One of the reasons for cannabalism was there was a lack of food.
One of the shore tours was to Cascade waterfalls. This photo was taken on the way to the falls.
The guide that took us to the falls made mark a hat from a leaf.
These are the falls. We had a great swim at the bottom of them.
On the way back from the falls we stopped at a look off. The scenery was awesome.
The other tour we did in Vila was to a cultural village. We really enjoyed it. They talked about local customs and traditions. Also, about local medicine, food storage, hunting and fishing techniques. They also showed us some traditional song and dances.
This was our tour guide. His name was c4. He was quite funny. He was telling us how you can tell a married woman on certain islands in Vanuatu. On one island they take a rock and smash out the ladies two front teeth. So if you smile at a young lady and she smiles back and she has no front teeth you should stay away because she's married. Another less painful way was they tattooed under the left eye. Another good story he told was that chiefs of the tribes were allowed to have more then 1 wife. The greatest chief had 102 wives. When chiefs died his wives were buried with him. It didn't mattered if they were living or not.
Young children learn to weave at a young age.
Ryan is still wet from our swim.
1 comment:
Nice pictures you have there but where did you get your informations on cannibalism in vanuatu? People eat their enemies as they believe this gives them power to defeat other enemies, its nothing to do with food shortage..Food is in abundance in these Islands and the last record of canibalism was in the 1960s.
The population in vanuatu dropped dramatically when the europeans intrduced typhoid and TB which wiped out entire villages and a great number of them were taken to Australia and fiji to work in the cane plantation.
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