Guam Off The Beaten Path Tips by Trina2383 Top 5 Page for this destination

Just drive baby!

If you want to be sure not to miss anything...rent a car and drive around the whole island. Guam is about 30 miles long and of variable width, about 8 miles maximum. To drive from the southern end by Cocos Island to Ritidian at the northern end takes about two hours. It can take a lot longer if you adhere to the speed limits (45 mph is the maximum legal speed on Guam), or if there's road construction (there always is), or if you get behind a school bus (they seem to run 24 hours a day), or if you get behind someone who has filled up the back of his pickup truck with sand and is dragging his rear on the road, sparks flying, sand blowing off, and the tires flattened by the weight. (Hauling sand is a popular road activity on Guam.)

FiestaS

I think it is safe to say that the most popular Guam pastime is the fiesta. Fiestas are feasts, held outdoors, to which everyone on Guam is invited. It is impossible to crash a fiesta because you will be welcomed by the hosts even if they don't know who you are. However, if you do attend a fiesta, it is a courtesy to bring with you a contribution such as drinks, a food item, or paper products. When you leave, you will be invited to take a plate full of food with you.
Fiestas are held for any and all reasons: birthdays, political rallies, funerals, graduations, novenas, christenings, new house, family reunions and so on. Whole villages hold fiestas on their church's saint's feast day.
Fiestas are the best places to sample Chamoru cuisine. There is always rice, both white rice and the more festive red rice. Red rice is cooked with achote, a seedpod that gives the rice a subtle flavor and its distinctive color. There are usually flour tortillas and corn tortillas, cut into little triangles, and if you're really, really lucky, someone will have made fadang tortillas. These are made of flour from ground-up cycad seeds. The seeds are poisonous, and the flour must be leached and rinsed several times to get the poison out. Most people these days don't have the patience to make this, but it is delicious!