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| COLD Beer Served Here ! ! The Otiintai Hotel was one of the PCVs' favorite stops on arriving on Tarawa after a 13 week dry term on an outer island. |
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| The causeway connecting Bairiki to the highly populated area of Betio where the "Battle of Tarawa" was fought in 1943... | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Bairiki has a few modern shops where you can buy office supplies, material for your 'te bee' or lava-lava, a double burner kerosene stove, etc. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| People usually get their water from a well using an Ox & Palm (Corned Beef) can. It's not as simple as you'd think. It takes the right flick of the wrist for the can to submerge; otherwise, it just lays on the surface. The atoll has a fresh-water 'lens', and the well is dug just deep enough to reach that lens. Any deeper and salt water would contaminate the fresh. |
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| 'Te waa ion te bike' (The canoe on the beach) The Kiribati canoe with outrigger and sail... | |||||||||||||||||||||||