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Guam: Tawny nurse sharks, a Spanish fort and Chamorro Village night market

A weekend in Tumon Bay, Guam: the Dusit Thani resort, a boat trip with tawny nurse sharks, Chamorro Village night market and a late-night Kmart run.

Guam surprised us. We came for a beach weekend in Tumon Bay and left with a camera roll full of sharks, Spanish forts and night-market food.

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Base camp was the Dusit Thani Guam Resort, and early mornings were for the beach and pool before the day trips began. The best moment of the whole weekend came on a boat trip: tawny nurse sharks, right there in the clear water.

Back on land we took in the view from Fort Santa Agueda, visited the Dulce Nombre de María Cathedral Basilica, and did the full Tumon shopping circuit, ABC Stores, Macy’s, Cinnabon, a coffee stop, and an obligatory late-night Kmart run, which is somehow a genuine Guam tradition.

We finished at Chamorro Village night market for street food and local entertainment, the best single stop on the island for feeling what Guam is actually like. If you get the chance to visit this little piece of island America in the Pacific, take it.

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The whole argument for Guam in fifty seconds: the beaches and that turquoise water, a party boat with dolphin spotting, the island viewpoints, Fort Santa Agueda and the Dulce Nombre de Maria Cathedral Basilica, the shooting range everybody ends up trying, the duty-free shopping, and the night market for street food and entertainment. That's a lot of island for somewhere most people only know as a dot on a flight map.

Photos from Guam

A few stills from the camera roll to go with the video, from the moment we landed in January 2026.

Blue Hafa Adai Welcome to Guam sign with red hibiscus flowers at the airport arrivals exit — Håfa Adai, the Chamorro hello, first thing you see off the plane.

Inga and Dileep in swimwear standing in calm shallow water at Tumon Bay, waves breaking far out on the reef — Tumon Bay in January 2026. The reef takes the waves way out there, so the bay stays like a pool.

Dileep and Inga in sun hats on the white bow of a boat off Guam, holding yellow and red dive rings, green hills across the turquoise water — On the bow with the dive rings, heading out for the boat trip from the video. Somewhere under all that turquoise: the sharks.

Inga standing on the upper level of Micronesia Mall in Guam, indoor palm trees and shops under a steel-truss glass roof — Micronesia Mall, where the palm trees grow indoors and the food court never ends.

Inga in a straw hat holding an AR-15 style rifle beside a display case of pistols at an indoor shooting range in Tumon — Tumon's tourist shooting ranges are a whole industry. Very American, very Guam.

Inga from behind in ear defenders and safety glasses, aiming a pistol two-handed down an indoor range lane at three paper targets — And then the actual shooting. Ear defenders on, three targets down the lane, and a lot more recoil than expected.

A single striped reef fish hovering over pale sand in shallow turquoise water, seen from directly above — The water off Guam is so clear you can count the stripes from the boat. This one held still just long enough.

Large white I love Guam letters with a red heart on gravel in Hagatna, people posing between them, palm trees and a modern building with a curved sail-shaped roof behind — The I heart Guam letters in Hagatna. We never once found them unoccupied.

Inga in a straw hat on a high hotel balcony above Tumon Bay, the turquoise lagoon, palm-fringed beach and resort pool laid out below — The view that sells the island: Tumon Bay from a few floors up, pool below, reef out there somewhere.

A cast iron skillet of fried potatoes and beef topped with two fried eggs, with loaded fries and another sizzling plate on the table behind — Guam portions are American portions. This was one order, for one person, in theory.

Inga at a breakfast table in a restaurant with floor-to-ceiling windows, the reef and open Pacific filling the view behind her — Breakfast with the reef doing the wallpaper. Hard to leave the table.

Inga in a crochet cover-up and Dileep in a USA t-shirt standing on empty white sand, the reef line breaking far out behind them — Just after seven in the morning, and the beach entirely to ourselves. This is the argument for getting up early on an island.

The other films from Guam

A two minute tour of the Dusit Thani resort on Tumon Bay, the lobby, the ocean view room and the pool.
Inside the Sagan Bisita lounge at Guam airport, the full walkthrough on the way home, food and shower cubicle included.

There’s more from this trip on our YouTube channel, we film the real sights and sounds, no fluff. You’ll also find us on TikTok and Instagram.