A video has captured an incredibly rare and peaceful moment between a 30,000-year-old Sentinelese tribe and a group of visitors from India.

The isolated Sentinelese peoples of North Sentinel Island have been known to fiercely protect their home from outsiders.

Although the tribe is largely ‘uncontacted’, they still do come into contact with people now and again.

Watch below to see Trilokinath Pandit, a director of the Anthropological Survey of India, and his colleagues visit the island in the Indian Ocean on 4 January, 1991:

In the film, you see the surveyors approach the island by boat as members of the tribe head on to the beach to take a look at their new visitors.

The surveyors throw coconuts towards the tribe as a form of peace offering and members of the tribe collect them from the water.

The footage is a stark contrast to other videos previously shot of the island – Survival International once posted a video showing the tribe shooting arrows towards people approaching the island and it’s been confirmed that the Indian visits to the island ceased in 1997.

The tribe have been known to aggressively repel outsiders who attempt to approach the remote island.

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In 2018, American John Allen Chau, 26, travelled to North Sentinel Island after reportedly paying fishermen to ferry him over.

Some Christian groups claimed the man was a missionary and had been finding a way to reach the island.

But when he got there, he was killed by members of the tribe armed with bows and arrows.

The indigenous people of North Sentinel Island are protected by law and it is illegal to go over to the island – under Indian law, you cannot enter a five nautical mile radius of the island.

At the time, a spokesperson for International Christian Concern said: “We here at International Christian Concern are extremely concerned by the reports of an American missionary being murdered in India’s Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

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“Our thoughts and prayers go out to both John’s family and friends. A full investigation must be launched in this this murder and those responsible must be brought to justice.”

The tribe – thought to be made up of around 150 people – are generally left alone by the government and, due to their isolation, they are highly susceptible to disease and infection because they haven’t developed immunity.

As reported by The Guardian, the Indian government has a ‘hands off, eyes on’, policy to the Sentinelese, meaning officials moor boasts nearby to the island every couple of months to check on their welfare.

On 17 November, 2018, missionary John Allen Chau was killed while attempting to convert a tribe of people living on North Sentinel Island to Christianity.

The missionary thought that North Sentinel Island, and the tribe of people living in voluntary isolation there, might be ‘Satan’s last stronghold on Earth’.

The Sentinelese people living on the island have met attempts to contact them with hostility – as pretty much every time someone has tried to visit them, they’ve been attacked, and there are times when intruders on the island have been killed.

Since they clearly want to be left alone, the area has been declared a tribal reserve since 1956 and it’s illegal to come within three miles of North Sentinel Island.

That didn’t stop Chau, however, as he paid some fishermen to take him close to the island.

Writing in his journal beforehand he claimed that ‘eternal lives of this tribe is at hand’ and that he thought it was ‘worthwhile to declare Jesus to these people’.

He also wrote that people should not be angry at anyone who might kill him, indicating that he knew his life would be at risk by trying to get to the island.

Chau knew it was illegal to try and contact the Sentinelese. (TODAY/YouTube)

On 15 November, he got close enough to paddle himself the rest of the way in a kayak, and called out his name to the people on the island as well as telling them ‘Jesus loves you’.

The islanders drove him away, but he later returned and made another attempt which was also unsuccessful.

Chau tried to sing songs of worship to the islanders and repeat their words back to them, and eventually arrows were shot at him – with one piercing even The Bible he was holding.

Despite all of this, he made another attempt on 17 November, and the fishermen who’d taken him to North Sentinel Island said they later saw people from the tribe burying his body on the beach.

The Sentinelese have made it clear in the past they don’t want outsiders intruding. (Survival International)

Indian officials later made several efforts to recover his body, but all failed and it was decided not to trouble the Sentinelese more.

Chau himself was posthumously criticised for visiting the island and running the risk of spreading diseases among the Sentinelese which they would have no immunity to.

There have been accusations that the Sentinelese are a ‘cannibal tribe’, but past analysis of the bodies of people killed by them has indicated that they did not eat their victims.

Chau’s family forgave the people who killed him, saying at the time: “He loved God, life, helping those in need and had nothing but love for the Sentinelese people.

“We forgive those reportedly responsible for his death.”

Parts of Spain are introducing new drinking rules in the hopes of avoiding the rowdy behaviour that comes with boozed up tourists.

According to the Mirror, guests staying in all-inclusive resorts in Majorca’s Magaluf, Playa de Palma or El Arenal, as well as the west end of San Antonio in Ibiza, will be given a limit on the number of drinks they can purchase.

There will be a six drink limit on tourists in the all inclusive resorts, split across three drinks during lunch and three in the evening.

Beyond the six drink limit, shops in the area will also be banned from selling alcohol between 9:30pm at night and 8am the following morning, meaning that boozed up Brits looking for a night of getting sloshed will find their sources of alcohol hard to come by.

Other alcohol promoting activities such as pub crawls and happy hours have also been scuppered.

You’re looking at half a day’s worth of drinking in some holiday hotspots. (Getty Stock Photo)

The restrictions currently only apply to a limited number of spots in the Balearic Isles, as other parts of the islands don’t carry the same restrictions.

CW Real Estate Ibiza CEO Christian Wolf said of the new rule: “Although binge drinking may be common practice in many countries, people in Spain like to take their time with drinking.

“It’s important to enjoy yourself, but drinking to excess can lead to public disturbances, property damage, and strained relationships with the locals.

“Time will tell if this rule will be effective, and if more establishments will enforce it or if it simply fizzles out.”

Spain’s relationship with tourism is both profitable and problematic, as many parts of the country with a reputation for being lovely places to visit have grown tired of drunken tourists and the problems they cause.

Pace yourself mate, you’ve only got five drinks for the rest of the day after that one. (Getty Stock Photo)

The Brits have a bit of a reputation for being rowdy travellers and may sometimes be called ‘guiri’ by locals, which is really not a term of endearment.

A number of protests have told tourists to ‘go home’ due to them clogging up the place and generally being a nuisance while they visit.

Tourist hotspots have a high cost of living for the locals who are starting to feel priced out of some of the most desirable parts of their country to be in.

Some have taken to spraying holidaymakers with water pistols to make their point.

While there’s been condemnation of ‘bad tourism’ and Tenerife is planning to introduce a ‘tourist tax’, some spots are now trying to entice more people to come after seeing a costly drop in the number of visitors.

Hopeful missionary John Allen Chau grew up in a Christian home in Vancouver, Washington and had a passion for hiking, camping and travelling.

Back in high school, he learnt about the isolated Sentinelese peoples of North Sentinel Island, who fiercely protect their home from outsiders.

The hunter gatherers live on a small island – about the size of New York‘s Manhattan Island – situated in the Indian Ocean.

While it is estimated that the land could comfortably support between 80 and 150 people, between 15 and 500 are currently living there.

At the age of 27, he paid a fisherman to help him get across to the island in November 2018.

Chau’s intention was to visit the peoples to ‘declare Jesus’ to them.

“You guys might think I’m crazy in all this but I think it’s worth it to declare Jesus to these people,” he wrote in the letter to his parents.

“Please do not be angry at them or at God if I get killed.

“Rather please live your lives in obedience to whatever he has called you to and I’ll see you again when you pass through the veil. This is not a pointless thing – the eternal lives of this tribe is at hand and I can’t wait to see them around the throne of God worshiping in their own language as Revelations 7:9-10 states.

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“I love you all and I pray none of you love anything in this world more than Jesus Christ.”

Chau also wrote in his diary: “I hollered: ‘My name is John, I love you and Jesus loves you’.

“I regret I began to panic slightly as I saw them string arrows in their bows. I picked up the fish and threw it towards them. They kept coming.

“I paddled like I never have in my life back to the boat.”

Sadly, after making land he was believed to have been hit and killed by arrows.

“The fishermen saw a dead person being buried at the shore which from the silhouette of the body, clothing and circumstances appeared to be the body of John Allen Chau,” a police statement read at the time.

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Chau’s family also released a statement, which said: “We recently learned from an unconfirmed report that John Allen Chau was reported killed in India while reaching out to members of the Sentinelese Tribe in the Andaman Islands.

“He loved God, life, helping those in need and had nothing but love for the Sentinelese people.

“We forgive those reportedly responsible for his death. We also ask for the release of those friends he had in the Andaman Islands.”