A tour guide in Palau spearfishes off the Rock Islands. In the past, tribal rules permitted only local residents to fish in the lagoons of the Rock Islands. Today, angling is allowed by visitors, but commercial fishing is banned.
Rising from the turquoise waters of the Pacific Ocean, the many islands and islets of Palau are home to pristine coral reefs, dense jungles, and ancient caves.
Learn about Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger's National Geographic Society-funded expedition to Palau in 2006 to collect bones of small-bodied humans from Ucheliungs Cave.
