Ekasup Cultural Village in Vanuatu is a terrific tourist attraction. Visitors get to experience traditional culture and history in engaging presentations. On arriving at the village you enter the rainforest to be greeted by the chief and warriors/villagers in traditional costume to be taken back to another time.
On entering the actual village you learn about natural herbs and medicines, food preservation and roasting, making hunting traps, weaving baskets & mats and preparing the local dish, laplap. You will be told about cannibalism and you might even discover how to catch fish using a spider’s web.
While it is a tourist attraction, income from tours makes the modern village sustainable and it is a way of passing the traditional culture down through the generations because pikininis to their elders are part of the generational experience.
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