This week on my day off I did some touring by myself around the island. Hopefully on Thanksgiving week --- I will be taking some of the students on Island Tours.
One place they have asked about was Talafofo Falls. (There are several really nice waterfalls on Guam.) Talafofo Falls also claims to have a replica of the cave used by the Japenese War Hero, Yokoi. He is a Japenese Soldiers from World War 2 who hid in a cave in the woods in Guam until the 1970's when some Guamanian Farmers finally discovered him approximately 28 years after the war had ended.
You get to the parking lot and ride a cable car down the the falls. There is supposed to be a monorail but it was tiny and cheaply made and had fallen off it's tracks. You could only see the openning to the cave. There also was supposed to be other amusement rides, a ghost house, and ostriches but nothing really seemed to be in working order. There was a little museum with murals which depicted the history of Guam and the war which was interesting. It is really sad actually that they almost have destroyed the beauty of the place. Besides that it is not cheap to get into the place.
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If nothing else came of your visit to a run-down tourist trap, you helped me out in a moment of boredom... I enjoyed looking the story up on the web!
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