Tonga, Tonga Travel Blogs

Ei sitten olla Fijilla, ei...
Jan 15, 2008 (4 photos)

Ei voi sanoa muuta kuin etta ei hyvaa paivaa. Kun olimme Nuku'alofan lentokentalla paasseet uskomattoman hitaan check-inin lapi (boarding passit kirjoitettiin kasin), ja juuri kun olin maksanut lentokenttaveron ja vaihtanut loput Tongan rahat Fijin ...

First Days in the Kingdom of Tonga
Oct 7, 2008 (8 photos)

... some evening eats, and ended up at a chinese restaurant (emerald), seemingly the only game in town. Observations about Tonga.. everyone has a pig, everyone has about 4 dogs, most people have a rooster. Sunrises at 5 am. The roosters ...

What?? No hangover??
Mar 16, 2006 (4 photos)

A fabulous feeling to wake up hangover free! All very excited, especially Rana, as we have arranged to be picked up from our anchorage to go diving. I have my Open Water Cert however, I also have a fear of depth & I am not a good swimmer, so ...

Hina Cave show
Dec 11, 2009 (6 photos)

... never colonised. Menu for the Buffet Suckling pig, 3 types of sweet potatoes, Talo (root veg), fresh salads, potato salads, Tonga fish (raw mixed with spices), Tilapia fish, type of corned beef wrapped in Talo leaves, seaweed with fresh grated coconut, ...

Whales
Sep 10, 2007 (12 photos)

Whales -

Va Vau,
Sep 7, 2007 (11 photos)

Tonga

Island of Tonga
Jan 30, 2008

January 29, Tuesday We visited Tonga today, spending only a few hours on the island since it was so warm. The currents and winds in the harbor made it impossible for the ship to dock, so we needed to go ashore on the tenders. Since the swells of the ...

Welcome to Tonga
May 10, 2009 (6 photos)

Hei vaan ja hyvää Äitienpäivää kaikille äideille. Saavuttiin Aucklandista Tongatapuun ja siellä kaupunkiin nimeltä Nukualofa. Taaskin pisteet Air New Zealadille omista telkkareista (ja on muuten isommat ku vinnairilla) ja hyvästä palvelusta. Tiputtiin maahan 9 ...

Date Line
Sep 7, 2008 (2 photos)

Sunday 7 September Tonga, mostly                                  S 18° ...

Chilling out in Vava'u
Jul 12, 2006 (2 photos)

... with them (an experience out of this world apparently). We also got to know the American owners of a Mexican cantina called Tonga Bob's, which serves outstanding Mexican food and where we seemed to spend almost every night until the wee hours of the ...

The last night in Vava'ua
Mar 23, 2006

Rana had organised to go diving that morning, so we had to get her up and moving with a nice big hangover to help her on her way. We had to disembark Sirocco that morning so Trace & myself had a slow cleanup and finally dropped the mooring and bought ...

The Blue Lagoon
Mar 19, 2006 (5 photos)

... move on to Hunga Lagoon and enter at a fairly high tide, so it almost seemed like a rushed day (but this is Tonga!). Wow! The Blue Lagoon is simply stunning. Gorgeous white sand, crystal clear water in that beautiful aqua blue/green colour that begs ...

Carols By the Sea
Dec 5, 2009 (4 photos)

... . Rather like Blickling hall but warm. Although we arrived with our ground cover and picnic items at 6pm, the concert started at Tonga time…….or when everything was ready which was about 7.15. Highlights for us were as follows: Helen taking a ...

Taking it easy Tonga style
Aug 7, 2006 (3 photos)

... a full and busy boat. We left Tongatapu on the 28th with a very nice French girl called Catherine, who was in Tonga for a couple of months on a placement for her uni course - economics in developing countries. The association Catherine was working for ...

Gone today - here tommorrow
Dec 3, 2009 (5 photos)

... ;s Rugby shirt and had 20 minute conversation about rugby before showing us to our very nice room. Hels spotted a photo of some Tonga International rugby players and spotted our man…..later turned out that he was not in the photo but was a well known ...

Tonga (or "Get that pig out of the road!")
Jun 17, 2009

... figure on the island. A Lancastrian with an incredibly dry sense of humour, he dismisses Captain Cook (who landed on Tonga in April 1777) as a "Yorkshireman with a rubbish sense of direction" and his views on southerners are unprintable! He was ...

Vahan aurinkoakin
Jan 13, 2008 (13 photos)

Torstai meni sadetta pidellessa. Notkuimme koko paivan ruotsalaisen Annelin ja Lontoosta kotoisin olevan Nickin kanssa Nuku'alofan kahviloissa. Kaikista saaennusteista huolimatta perjantaiaamu valkeni aurinkoisena ja saimme yhden paivan ajan ...

Tonga - Across the dateline
Sep 1, 2004 (14 photos)

The first day of September only actually lasted for four hours for us as we crossed the International Dateline on our way to Tonga, a 1.5 hour flight which actually landed 25.5 hours after it took off - weird! We decided whilst we were in Tonga we ...

A Bank Holiday sort of day!
Dec 4, 2009 (5 photos)

... off to town. Just before we were about to walk to town Sam came out with his laptop and ….. THE HUNT FOR TONGA PETE…….. …yesterday evening before turning in Sam sent e-mails to a friend who he thought would know Paulo Lavulo's e- ...

Sailing in Tonga
May 6, 2009 (7 photos)

... back and forth alongside the yacht. We're now in town (Neifau) getting more food and water for the boat, we only have a few days left in Tonga (booo). The weather has been wonderful until today, now it's a bit wet but due to clear up again tomorrow.

Terveiset Tongalta! *live*
Feb 20, 2007

Täällä sitä ollaan Tongalla! Puhelinverkosta ei tietoakaan, mutta yksi nettipaikka todella hitaalla yhteydellä löytyy ...ja kahvila myös, joten ei tarvitse nälässä olla :-) Keskusta on tosiaan tuhkana, mutta muuten vaikuttaa rauhalliselta. Lentokentällä oli yksi ...

Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish.
Oct 13, 2008 (4 photos)

... in Nuku'Alofa for a transfer back to the airport and 20 minute flight to Eu'A "The ecotourist island of the Kingdom of Tonga" (anyone spot a contradiction in that?). Photos to come when I get an internet connection that doesn't operate on Tongan IP

Tonga
Dec 4, 2005 (27 photos)

Friends, I am in tonga, and I move on to Samoa tomorrow. Here is a list of cool things I've done in Tonga: Four dives including my first wreck dive. Finished two good books and one no brainer (If you haven't read "my friend lenard" pick it up.) ...

Ha'apai - päivä 5 - autiosaaren valloitus
Feb 26, 2007 (10 photos)

Sunnuntai on Tongalla ehdoton lepopäivä ja silloin ei paikalliset saa tehdä töitä, uida tai mitään muutakaan. Kirkossa käydään päivän aikana neljästi, joista ensimmäinen heti 04 jälkeen aamulla ja sanovatkin, että Sunnuntai on itseasiassa niin rankka päivä, että loppuviikko ...

Nuku'alofa - Tonin saarikierros
Feb 21, 2007 (12 photos)

... päivämäärärajan tuntumassa ja siis maailman valtioista ensimmäinen, joka vastaanottaa uuden päivän. Useista muista tyynenmeren saarista poiketen Tonga ei ole juurikaan turistisoitunut tai kehittynyt, vaan aika on täällä pysähtynyt ja saaret säilyneet hyvin aitoina. ...

Humpback of Neiafu
Oct 10, 2008 (7 photos)

... and countless ikale, Andy being smooth with the locals and an astonishing day of swimming with Whales. Pacific Humpback whales come to Tonga - not for the cheap beer, but for the warm waters in which they give birth to and nurse their calves. We took a ...

Let the sailing begin
Mar 15, 2006 (4 photos)

Our lovely Tongan skipper Lepa came out of retirement to show us around, so we got the boat in and started loading the provisions. We had planned our menu's with great thought over many, many hours but we shouldn't have bothered! It ended up that ...

Ha'apai - päivä 2 - pyöräilyä
Feb 23, 2007 (9 photos)

Jotenkin on nyt, niin tottunut näihin aikaisiin herätyksiin, että silloin kun saisi nukkua, niin herää kuitenkin jo ennen kahdeksaa.   Aamupalan jälkeen makailtiin pari tuntia rannalla ja riippumatossa sulattelemassa, jonka jälkeen päätettiin lähteä ...

Nuku 'alofa jobs day
Dec 9, 2009

... staff at the Tourism office as a thankyou. Took the cards in and had a long chat about our stay and our feelings about Tonga, before leaving cards with them……  …..and then Friends Café for eats, drinks and their wireless (just as bad) ...

Sur la plage abandonnee, coquillages et crustaces?
May 1, 2008 (175 photos)

... anglo-tongais qui vit ici depuis des lustres, bien sympatoche. En bonus track, on a teste le homard prepare a la chinoise a Tonga : bizarre mais plutot bon :). Pour resumer, les Tonga c'est... - le bordel, y'a rien qui marche dans ce pays !! - ...