Butaritari Attractions & Activities - The Best Holiday Destinations for 2020
Butaritari (pronounced Pu-tari-tari) atoll is known as the first island to have the Japanese and the Americans fierce involvement during the 2nd World War. Physical evidence of WWII relics and other historical sites can still be seen nowadays. Butaritari was once a home for Robert Louis Stevenson during the nineteenth century, the first island to be sighted by first resident traders namely Randell and Durant and has been the sites for a while of some of the first international trade. Given its abundance of rain received in year, Butaritari is one of the lush ad tropical islands with widely grown vegetation on it. Because of this, banans and pumpkin, apart from other food crops, are shipped to Tarawa for selling. Butaritari also has a number of easily accessible reefs. Its very deep lagoon has made it as one of the best harbors in the island group that can comfortably accommodate large vessels. Butaritari is also famous for having the best spiritual weapons (black magic) among the islands of Kiribati. They use these spiritual weapons to make people sick, paralyzed, mentally retarded and even dead. They can also use it to court a girl or a boy. Up to now, the number of people practicing this knowledge is getting smaller. Other cultural shrines such as shrines for Te Binekua (calling of whales), Kaobunang and others have also been erected by the islanders which can also be seen today.
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