HISTORIC INALAHAN AND GEF PA’GO TOURS
2007 thru Sept. 30, 2008
Summary of Activities
Gef Pa’go Chamorro Cultural Village is a living museum of thatched huts and traditionally-constructed buildings along Inarajan Bay. The tours include visits into the Inarajan Historic District, featuring homes that were built in the early 1900s.
Tours of Gef Pa’go and Historic Inarajan are operated by Historic Inalahan Foundation, a registered non-profit organization founded by residents of Inarajan. Our mission is to provide a showcase of Chamorro culture for our visitors and to provide hands-on educational experiences for our youth to learn about their heritage. We portray the historic period of 1900 to 1940. We employ elders who grew up in this era and can tell stories about their younger lives. We also employ younger residents who are learning from these elders and are passing this knowledge to the next generation. Gef Pa’go is an ancient Chamorro word meaning “beautiful”. It has since been replaced with the Spanish word, “bunitu”.
Hours of operation: 9 am to 12 noon daily (will open later by appointment)
Gift Shop, snacks and drinks available
We proudly
produce and sell products through our gift shop, such as sea salt, coconut
candy, coconut oil, carvings, and woven items. We are expanding to offer
more traditional Chamorro packaged foods, such as cookies, bread, titiyas,
katupat (rice lunch bags) and other cultural treats. Kusinan Gadao, a
Chamorro Food Take Out food vendor, is located at Gef Pa’go and provides
daily lunch and dinner plates. Kusinan Gadao also provides catering services
for groups.
DAILY TOURS: (Published Price: $10 adults;
Children 5 - 12 = $5; Students $7)
Tours include thatched huts and 1 historic home in Inarajan, with people
demonstrating the following:
Coconut husking and grating and making candy and oil
Salt making from sea water
Weaving and cooking little rice lunch bags (katupat)
Weaving of coconut leaf and pandanus leaf for baskets and hats and decorations
Making corn Titiyas, with grinding corn on the stone mitate
Baking in the Chamorro oven
Making rope from wild hibiscus fiber
Visiting inside the Leon Guerrero Historic Home, built of native wood
and lime cement in 1901
This tour takes about 1 hour
SPECIAL CRAFTS LESSONS: $13 adult $8
children (per day)
3-hour visit where visitors can learn one or more of the crafts or cooking.
All materials supplied.