Yam Festival Tanna

The Island of Tanna celebrates every 1^st of April, the year's first yam harvest where the people from the southern part of the island performs the Yanarawia festival. It is customary to offer a special ceremony on that day to “Majikjiki”, the god or spirit who is believed to have been blessing them with a good harvest every year. Crops like banana, taro and fish are collected during the day before and stored at the nakamal as a thank you offering to the gods of the earth.