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Things to do in Salybia

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Ninety seconds on Salybia

A chief has been elected here since 1903. Salybia is the main village of the Kalinago Territory, about three thousand seven hundred acres held communally across eight hamlets on the island's wild east side. The territory runs to about three thousand seven hundred acres across eight hamlets and was set aside in 1903. Basket weaving in larouman reed is still worked here, and the coast below the villages is rock and Atlantic swell with no beach on it.

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  1. Kalinago Territory

    District · 3 hr

    About three thousand seven hundred acres on the east coast, set aside in 1903 and held communally across eight hamlets under an elected chief. It is the last organised Kalinago community in the Caribbean.

  2. L'Escalier Tete Chien

    Landmark · 1 hr

    A solidified lava dyke running out of the sea and up the cliff in regular blocks like a stair. In Kalinago tradition it is the track of a great serpent, and it is the territory's defining landmark.

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