However, that did not stop the festive celebrations leading up to Christmas Day and following on to the New Year celebration with a mountain of food, fun and festivities, which only the Pari villagers boast to know how to do best.
From Christmas it was the usual celebration of the Birth of Jesus Christ with church services and singing of choir groups or – “Peroveta anedia” as they call it in their Motuan language from all around the village.