Tourism in Palau

Palau is not only famous for its underwater landscape, but also recognized by oceanographers as the first of the seven underwater wonders in the world, and its marine landscape is equally amazing. Wonderful jellyfish lake, with unique nontoxic jellyfish.

Its seawater has seven different colors, which amazes every visitor who has seen it. The reason is that Palau's sea water is clear and pollution-free, and the seabed landscape has a strange shape. Sometimes black rocks, sometimes gorgeous soft and hard corals, or fine gravel, and volcanic ash deposited in ancient times. All this is reflected on the sea surface by the clear sea water without reservation, so this eye-catching color is available. It is said that many advertising companies in the world choose to shoot advertisements here. In Palau, established in 1996, Palau International Travel (PIT) is an international travel agency that is most committed to diversification and high-quality development.

Palau Pit China is its office in China. China in Palau Pit is mainly engaged in island holiday reception, itinerary arrangement, coach rental, yacht swimming, diving and sea fishing group. Tailor-made exquisite island itineraries meet the needs of customers at different levels and are the first choice for Palau tourism. Women's money (also called UdoudraBelau) is a strange thing in the history of human commodity exchange, which has different meanings for the people in Palau. These strung women's money is usually used in any traditional customs related to birth, death, marriage, and even building new houses and elections. This strange trading method has been practiced in Palau for centuries. CaptainHenryWilson of the British naval fleet is the first person recorded in history, and Britain conquered Palau in 1783. Palauans have a complex social system to deal with this strange exchange habit. No one knows when and by whom this beaded woman's money was introduced to Palau.

Germans first brought money to Palau in the form of German marks from 1899 to 19 14, but they still kept the traditional women's money. Then the Japanese introduced Japanese yen to Palau between 19 14 and 1944. At this point, the German mark was completely replaced by the Japanese yen. In Palau's history, the Japanese yen became the first currency to participate in the traditional exchange behavior and became another choice besides women's money. After World War II, the US dollar replaced the Japanese yen, and Palauans have been using it ever since.

The local elders once lost control during the Japanese occupation, and later regained control of traditions and customs, so women's money became active again. In today's Palau society, women's money can't be used to buy things, but it is an extremely important protagonist in traditions and customs. The value of women's money in Palau's eyes does not decrease with time.

Although many young people in modern Palau society do not know the types and names of women's money, they all know the importance and social value of women's money. If you put an expensive gold necklace and a string of women's money in front of Palau women, most Palau women will choose women's money. For a Palau woman, wearing a string of women's money around her neck means that she is from a rich family or married to a rich man, which means that she is valued by this family, so she has the right to wear women's money. Women usually wear a black rope to string together the money of single women; But on important occasions, they will wear a whole string of women's money, called "Iek". Never compare gold with women's money in front of Palau, because it may be evaluated as shabby and vulgar by local people (especially the older generation).

Unmarried girls can wear it with their parents' money; A married woman usually wears her husband's money or her in-laws lend her money. Women can also have their own women's money, which is usually inherited from their parents' home or left after their husbands' death. Most elderly women and extended families will have considerable women's money.

The most valuable woman's money started with a big yellow bracelet called "BachelBerrak". This yellow bracelet is cut and punched in the original stone and then put on a necklace, so it is the most valuable female model.

When there is an emergency that needs money especially, Palauans will sell their women's money and exchange it for dollars; A big woman with a rich history can sell for 30 thousand dollars. However, it will lose some value. If it is sold in an emergency, it will only reach this value in the traditional exchange behavior.

In Palau, there are many lawsuits about women's money, which shows its importance to Palauans. If a Palauan sells a woman's money belonging to the whole family to others, or a woman refuses to return her husband's money after divorce, the owner of the woman's money can take legal action.

A complete collection of women's money sometimes appears in a family. The Edie family on Crowe Island has a series of collections; DouglasOsborne, a photographer who specializes in shooting women's money from 65438 to 0966, once photographed this series of women's money. At that time, the elders who owned these women's money used to resell some of them and exchange them with others for different women's money, but now these women's money is called Idid money. Palauans don't like to show their women's money, and traditional customs prohibit people from seeing or touching women's money from other families. At the same time, Palauans don't want others to find out that they have several women's money.

Women's money was once regarded as an antique and was no longer used for a long time. Women's money will disappear for many years because people hide it or burn it and scatter it around the house. Some women's money disappears because of fire or the sudden death of the holder. At the beginning, the amount of money Palau had for women was unpredictable, but now the amount of money is even more mysterious.

For centuries, Palauans have tried to copy women's money with stones and ceramics, but it is easy to tell the difference between fake and genuine goods. After understanding the value of women's money, many businessmen also introduced similar coins from other regions to Palau, but this kind of coin has never been recognized by Palau people, although they have also included this kind of coin in their own collections.

The first counterfeit money appeared at 1900, when many women's money was made of glass bottles by foreigners. These Cheldoech women, like the real thing, have blue or green money and are transparent. The Cheldoech women's model was left unattended at 1920, and completely withdrew from the market. Up to now, many people still wear this kind of women's money, and many people collect it. Now Cheldoech women's money has become an antique collection.

In the past six years, Palauans began to introduce new varieties of women's money from other Asian countries such as Indonesia, Thailand and the Philippines. These foreign women's money, similar to Palau's precious primitive women's money, were found in ancient century tombs in these countries. Antique dealers in these areas point out that over the years, many Palauans have bought money from these women and brought it back to Palau. Maybe foreign women's money is already circulating in the market. Most of the local ancient cultural relics are illegally excavated, and the locals are only interested in gold and porcelain unearthed at the same time as women's money. Most of these sites were identified as cemeteries between 500 BC and 500 AD, and the unearthed cultural relics were not made locally. It is believed that these precious cultural relics were handed down from China or Egypt. Many elderly Palauans who hold such women's money are disappointed, because these women's money is not unique in Palau; Although these "new" female coins are similar in material and place of origin, they do not have Palau's historical background and name, so they cannot be used in the market.

Because Palau keeps women's money very secret, even Palau locals don't know much about the existing amount of women's money; Old people only know some unique forms of women's money. It is difficult to list all Palau women's money, especially after the introduction of "new varieties" of foreign women money. All Palauans swear that what they have must be true, not to mention that these women really look exactly the same in money. Slowly, foreign women's money will be valuable over time, and it will gradually be accepted by Palau, because at least it is not counterfeit money, and it may come from the same birthplace as Palau's real women's money.

Every Palau genuine woman's money has a color name, a shape name and an individual name. Many women's money has the same personal name. The name of a woman's money is determined by its style, size and work. The earliest Palauans probably came from Polynesia and Asia. It can be seen from the legend of family origin in this area that Palauans may be mixed with the races of Melanesia, Micronesia and West Porini. Therefore, strictly speaking, Palauans do not belong to Micronesia.

This island group was considered as a "black island" in the early days. Early maps and village descriptions can be found in the online library of Australia, as well as photos of tattoos and pierced ears of the early chief of Crowe.

Research in recent years, dating results of carbon 14 and unearthed archaeological evidence have made the history of this island group move towards a new direction. The burial sites found on the island show that Palau should be the earliest place with funeral ceremonies in Oceania. However, there are two theories about when Palauans settled here, one is 2500 BC, and the other is 1000 BC. Florence was once found in Java, an area that had trade relations with Palau in ancient times. In 2007, an archaeologist found a short-sized human bone suspected to be Florentine in Palau's rocky islands. This discovery may overturn the previous hypothesis, but so far this research discovery is still controversial. 1. There is no direct flight from Chinese mainland to Palau. Generally, direct flights to Palau (1) and Macau are conducted in the following ways: (2) Direct flights from Hong Kong to Palau; (3) Transfer from Seoul to Palau; (4) Take Taipei and fly to Palau;

2. Due to the connection of flight time, you can stay one more night and visit Manila during the day;

3. Palau is a tourist country and implements a loose landing visa policy;

4. Those who have a formal diving license can apply for a deep-sea diving license. The diving environment here is the dream of many professional divers in the world, ranking first in the seven worlds;

5. If you live in the best resort in Palau, choose all rooms facing the sea and try all the most distinctive activities at the same time, then the air ticket+airport tax+activity fee+accommodation fee+full meal fee+tour guide tip is 22,000 yuan/person. 6. The hotel voltage in Palau is110V, which is different from that in China, and so is the plug. General travel social distribution, if you go at your own expense, please prepare the adapter. 7. It is forbidden to shoot fish with fishing guns in Palau, so as not to cause harm to precious fish and swimmers in the same waters.

Palau carefully checks the drugs carried by passengers. If you must bring drugs, please bring drugs with clear English instructions, otherwise they will be confiscated at the customs. Palau's tourism industry is very developed, so the foreign population is also very complicated. If there is no special reason, it is safer for girls to stay in hotels at night. Palau has convenient transportation and 23 kilometers of roads. Belau Airport is located at the southern tip of Tuap Island in Babeur.

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Palau has three airports, located on the main island, Peleliu Island and Angar Island. Palau International Airport is the only international airport, located in the south of the main island and within the territory of Eray. There is no direct flight from Beijing to Palau, so we can only fly to Manila and then to Palau. Due to the connection of flight time, I need to stay in Manila for one night and fly to Palau the next morning. Friends who want to visit Manila by the way can stay one more night and visit Manila during the day.

Local transportation in Palau

Between two adjacent islands about two kilometers, there is a corridor formed by broad white sand. Hidden at the bottom of the sea at high tide, it is a light green broadband sea area; At low tide, it becomes a white land corridor, which can walk from one island to another. Then we came to the Palau fault, which is a huge vertical submerged point, with a water depth of about one meter vertical to an abyss of 600 meters. There are also many soft corals, sea fans and corals on the hanging wall. Among these creatures, there are all kinds of coral fish, and there are many groups of golden bass flying on the coral reef. One-horned snapper and various butterfly fish can be seen everywhere. This is a colorful and lively dive site.

Niunaihu natural SPA

Niunai Lake is a unique tourist attraction in Palau. It is actually not a freshwater lake, but a small sea area between small islands. It looks like a lake because of the terrain. In ancient times, this was an area with frequent volcanic activities. After the volcanic eruption, volcanic ash deposited on the bottom of the lake, forming a thick layer of volcanic mud for many years. Due to the high transparency of Palau's seawater, the volcanic mud deposited at the bottom of the lake makes the blue-green of the seawater a little milky white, and the white volcanic mud at the bottom of the lake looks like milk, so it is called Milk Lake. There are colorful corals in the soft coral area, sometimes there may be no bottom, but beautiful purple corals and yellow corals are seen. ...

A little water attached to the rock wall and born in the soft coral area can snorkel beside it if it has no strength, which can help balance and reduce strength.

Some corals in soft coral areas are poisonous, so you must protect your feet, don't step on corals, and of course do a good job of protection. Palau's hard coral area, that is, the corals here don't dance with the current like soft corals. It looks like a cluster of stone forests. However, there are still many schools of fish here. After entering the water, you can take out some bread crumbs to attract beautiful tropical fish.

If you are lucky, you can also see Palau's national treasure fish-Dragon King Carving (called Su Mei in China), which is named after the two short black lines above the eyes are similar to the eyebrows. The back of an adult fish looks like Napoleon's hat, so it is also called Napoleon Fish. Palau is a very strange place. The water is always flat, but it is the place where typhoons form. When domestic TV stations release typhoon forecasts, there is always a saying, "A typhoon currently formed in the east of the Philippines is moving westward, and it is expected to land somewhere at some time ..." This "east of the Philippines" refers to the area including Palau.

Long beach is a holiday resort that often appears in various advertising shots. As we approached, the beautiful momentum of Long Beach came to us. On the vast blue ocean, between two lonely green islands, a beautiful rainbow-like moonlight arc crossed. In the afternoon, the strong sunshine on the equator makes the sand dazzling white, which makes people afraid to face it. The sea seems to have swallowed the spirit of the sun and opened its deep mind. It is completely blue, clean and atmospheric, without the slightest timidity.