What's more, Funafuti isn't packed with tourist activities. Nonetheless, it has own relaxed charm. Men and women commonly wear flowers in their hair. A pig is slaughtered on a pier near the hotel. A traditional wedding procession moves past soon after.
Reef fishing passes one day pleasantly.
Their superbly deserted white-sand beach beckons. Less pretty are the southern and northern extremities of Funafuti itself, a dumping ground for mountains of garbage. The world has turned Tuvaluans into consumers but it hasn't given them a method of disposing of the consequent detritus. This garbage disposal problem will disappear in a most unfortunate way if global-warming pessimists are correct. They warn that much of Tuvalu could slip beneath the sea sometime in the next century.