For a sweeping view of the mountainous southern portion of guam, visitors can stop. The doors are open to the new exhibit at the guam museum telling the history of the chamoru people. Drive past it for another minute and you will see the cetti bay overlook on your right. This trail starts on highway 2 and traverses southwest to sella bay.
The hike to fouha bay and rock is a sacred pilgrimage to ancient hallowed grounds that nurture your natural. Once i heard that the sella bay hike had some interesting historical sites that could be seen, i knew i needed to check it out. Cetti bay and the chain of a thousand foothills are part of guam s territorial seashore park. The guam daily posts hiking book, spots on the rock.
However, fuhas history flows back further than the spanish and. I quit my job and moved to guam my guamanian adventures. New guam museum exhibit tells chamorro peoples story. A natural history skills book hawaiian and pacific. Every purchase supports pacific historic parks programs and exhibits for all of our parks. The twin hills below the cetti bay overlook and to the north, called attelong acho, or black rock. Here for the first time is a comprehensive and eminently readable history of this.
Pages in category bays of guam this category contains only the following page. The community of umatac is relatively smaller than others on guam and. Because of its cultural and historical significance, cetti is on guam. Remnants of ancient chamoru latte stones and pottery remain scattered around cetti bay and sella bay and offer a look at the history of the coastal area. Umatac residents still celebrate every march with a reenactment of the 1521 landing on guam history and chamoru heritage day. The history of guam involves phases including the early arrival of austronesian people known today as the chamorros around 2000 bc, the development of precontact society, spanish colonization in the 17th century and the present american rule of the island since the 1898 spanishamerican war. An old spanishstyle bridge at nearby sella bay and several shards of. This weekend we find ourselves in the jungles of central guam, venturing deep into a valley sitting behind nimitz hill in asan, en route to a century. To learn more about guams people, history, culture and places, visit. The island of the colorblind, keeper of the night, from unincorporated territory, and no birds sing. Umatac is perhaps most famous for being the site, by long oral tradition among the chamorus, ferdinand magellan first landed on guam.
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