A Samoan house with open sides and a thatched roof.
（四侧敞开的）萨摩亚茅屋
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The majority live in modest huts, called fales, which are built on stone platforms, with mats covering the pebble floor and blinds that can be lowered for shelter.
Visitors often stay in open Samoan beach houses called fale (pronounced FAH-lay) and adopt the laidback local lifestyle.
My guide book said nearly all the houses (or fales, pronounced ‘fah-lays’) had traditional thatched roofs.
In times of crisis - and Falealupo has had a few in recent years - matai gather in a particular fale tele or meeting house.
In 1990, the tropical cyclone Ofa destroyed the roof of the market fale, which meant the end of this third and last central market experiment to date.