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Our Group also toured Palau topside attractions courtesy of Palau Visitor Authority and Sam’s Tours.
One of the highlights of our city tour of Koror Palau was the Koror City Jail, were we visited the story board workshop for male prisoners. Story boards, handmade wooden boards with local story legends carved onto them, are Palau’s most popular souvenirs. As a group we were impressed by the quality of the story boards and proceeded to purchase many pieces of artwork.
Our second stop on our city tour was a Bai, a traditional Palauan meeting house. There are two different types of Bai. One was for chiefs only; used for important meetings. Another was a type of clubhouse where village youngsters were taught about fishing, hunting and carpentry. Village young girls were brought from other villages to entertain the men with native folk dances & singing during meetings.
A Bai stands on a stone platform with four corner stones which served as back rests for the Chiefs during meetings. The four corner post of a Bai stand for the four leading clans of a village where chiefs governed the area. Many Bai were destroyed during typhoons, local wars and before WW-2, when the Palauan were moved away from their traditional villages, by the Japanese. |
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