Only in the monsoon season would they construct temporary huts from pandanus leaves, repair their boats and wait out the rain.

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One of the guides chops down a huge leaf from a pandanus tree with a machete and demonstrates some of its uses.

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The bungalows are spacious (nearly 600 square feet) but spare, with extra-firm mattresses and daybeds, stark white fabrics, and unadorned wood and woven-pandanus walls.

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For hydration, there is water flavored with pandanus leaf, which tastes pleasantly of toasted rice, and fruit-flavored drinking vinegars, which, mixed with seltzer, are like sweet-and-sour sodas.

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During the dry season, many of the men are employed by the national park, manning the boats used for snorkelling trips, and the women weave mats and baskets from pandanus leaves to sell to the groups of tourists who visit their beach every day.

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