Back To My Roots Festival

Back To My Roots Festival - one of the most famous festivals in Vanuatu- takes place in August at the northern part of Ambrym Island, which is famed for its beautiful wood carvings. During Back To My Roots festivals, visitors can enjoy a whole week of activities. Welcome custom dances, Tam Tam drumming, magic displays, and flute demonstrations, sand paintings, and a pig slaughter ritual for newly ordained chiefs or other chiefs gaining far higher levels in their chiefly titles are all part of the event.

The Back To My Roots Festival concludes with the Rom custom dance, which is Ambrym Island's identity dance.

The performance of the Rom dance serves as the festival's grand finale. Feel the rhythmic stomping of feet echo through the earth, and be mesmerized by the dancers' ornate masks.

Date: August 25th - 27th