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Two Lovers' Point, also known as Puntan Dos Amantes,
forms the northern tip of Tumon Bay.
It is a must see attraction
when visiting the island of Guam. Legend holds that a pair of
star-crossed lovers whose parents would not allow them to marry tied
their hair together and jumped to their deaths from this 378-foot
cliff. Visitors have a splendid view from this point of the
gleaming white-sand beaches and lush hillside along the Philippine Sea
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Admission fee to get to the look out tower of Two
Lovers' Point is $3.00 per person. And now the story of Two
Lovers Point: When Spain ruled Guam a proud family lived in Agana,
the capital city. The father was a wealthy Spanish
aristocrat and the mother was a Chamorro whose father was a great
chief. They owned land and were held in high esteem by all,
Chamorro and Spanish alike. However, the best reason for
their great pride and dignity was their beautiful daughter.
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was honest, modest; her charm so natural that her
beauty impressed everyone around her.
When Spain ruled Guam a proud family lived in Agana, the capital
city. The father was a wealthy Spanish aristocrat and the
mother was a Chamorro whose father was a great chief. They
owned land and were held in high esteem by all, Chamorro and
Spanish alike. However, the best reason for their great
pride and dignity was their beautiful daughter. She |
was honest, modest; her charm so natural that her
beauty impressed everyone around her.
One day, a powerful, arrogant Spanish captain came to ask the
father for his daughter's hand in marriage. The proud father
decided that the captain would be his daughter's husband.
When the girl discovered this, she was so disillusioned that she
ran from the house and wandered along the shore where the sea
soothed her with its silence and peace. |
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While walking along the shore, she met a young,
gentle, strongly-built and handsome Chamorro man from a very
modest Chamorro family. He was lost in his own solitary
thoughts, his gentle eyes seemed to be studying the lonely stars
and seeking some meaning to his life. They fell in love,
sharing their thoughts and desires. When the father of the
girl learned about the two lovers, he became angry and demanded
that she marry the powerful Spanish captain. No one could
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keep the father from announcing the date of the
marriage to the Spanish captain. That day, at sundown, she
stole out of the house to meet the Chamorro boy who loved her.
She joined him near the high point where they had first met and
watched the stars appear.
When the father discovered this his daughter was gone, he told the
captain that his daughter had been kidnapped by the Chamorro boy.
The father, the captain and all the Spanish |
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soldiers pursued the lovers up to the high cliff
above Tumon Bay. The horsemen slowed down their pace as they
neared the high peak because they saw that the lovers were
trapped. The lovers know there was one thing left for them
to do. The boy shouted a warning for the men to stay back,
and the father signaled the men to halt and to watch. The
couple stood at the very edge of the cliff. The boy and girl
took the long strands of their hair and tied these together into a
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knot. The two acted as if they were
absolutely alone. They looked deeply into each other's eye
and kissed one last time. In that instant, the young couple
leaped down the long, deep cliff into the roaring waves below.
When the father looked down over the edge, all he could see was the
floating hair of the two lovers. Too late, the father
understood the meaning of their hair tied together. Since
that day, the Chamorros look to the jutting peak by Tumon Bay
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with a kind of reverence. They are paying
respect to the young couple who showed them that real love comes
from the entwining of two souls, true to one another in life and
in death. And, forever after, the high point on the cliff
has been known as "Two Lovers Point." |
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