Necessity's Web Diary - We are in Malakula, Vanuatu

We are in Malakula, Vanuatu

Necessity

Eva and Jan Fr. Mack

Mon 24 Sep 2007 21:53

Our position is 16:20:30S 167:45:42E
We are again back to nature. The people of Banam Bay on Malakula live according to their old "Kastom" with dances and magic. The costumes are colourful though minimalistic. It is even more traditional than on Tanna and entirely fascinating. Some "kastom" has fortunately disappeared, although a few days ago the old chief Seito (83) suddenly grabbed my arm, looked at me at said: "You know, 50 years ago you would have made a very nice steak". It is more than likely that he knew was he was talking about. They are fortunately now quite gentle people.
A few days we met some other very gentle creatures when we were swimming with the Dugongs on Epi. Dugongs are a kind of manatee and quite rare. This is the mating season and a pair of them swam together in a kind of tranquil dance. They were oblivious to my presence.
We will come back with a full report in English on our web site at a later stage.
Jan Fr. and Tore (Eva is home in Norway)
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Sep 2007

Mon 24 Sep 21:53
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Fri 14 Sep 07:26
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Sat 1 Sep 06:17
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Aug 2007

Wed 29 Aug 20:36
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Mon 27 Aug 23:27
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Jul 2007

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Thu 5 Jul 21:39
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Jun 2007

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May 2007

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Thu 3 May 22:46
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Apr 2007

Thu 26 Apr 10:06
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Thu 12 Apr 22:40
- Greetings from Auckland

Mar 2007

Thu 15 Mar 04:09
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