Meet Openhanded and Charming People

You will always meet Openhanded and Charming People!

The Island is occupied by openhanded people. Among the attractions on the island, the people itself are so attractive. They are so open-armed and always smiling in full friendliness to welcome all those who come to the island. For local people of the island the visitors are highly honorable and will be treated as guests instead of tourist.

Therefore, in some places guests are traditionally welcomed with a ceremony of hospitality service. The highest respect for guests is by welcoming them with a cultural ritual that unites them not only with the living people but with ancestral spirits as one family. There is a specific way to welcome and to invite visitor to

In a specific ritual they invite the ancestral spirits to be friendly with those who visit the island. The ritual will be made by offering a chicken and rice for the ancestral spirit and being quoted with eating together.

The people are proud to serve the guest staying overnight at their houses. On a community of people in the village the guests are invited to spend the night with traditional mattress made of pandanus leaf in their traditional house

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