Country Info
- Nuku'alofa
- Capital
- Pa'anga (TOP)
- Currency
- 104,227
- Population
- TO
- Country Code
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Travel Blogs from Tonga
Fish. Fish. Fish. Fish.
... 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 ...
Tonga
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 ...
Tonga..The Pearl of the Pacific
Its Just under a 3 hour flight from Auckland to Tonga... Karl had originally found a special offer flight back in july and i booked the same flight dates as him. Brad booked to stay a couple of days longer... and Paul who used to work with all of us in ...
Humpback of Neiafu
... 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 ...
Let the sailing begin
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 ...
Nuku 'alofa jobs day
... connections on this Island are wireless but usually slow. Into town and checked Air Pacific flights to Fiji, stamps at Post Office, Tonga Rugby Shirt purchased. We also purchased two cards in town, We wrote one card to the Tongan Minister of Tourism to ...
Nicht alle Inseln im Schrank
... aehnelt, steht hier in den meisten anderen Belangen die Welt Kopf. Im Schutz der 2000 Kilometer Pazifik, welche Tonga von der naechsten, halbwegs entwickelten Zivilisation trennen, hat sich hier ein Voelklein mit wunderlichen Sitten entwickelt. Du ...
Talented Tongatapu
... into town and had a lovely dinner at a local café before heading to the Heilala festival – a major cultural event in Tonga. It runs for a week prior to the King’s birthday and involves beauty pageants, talent shows and tonight was ...
The Hideaway House of Humpbacks
So we set off on our 7 minute flight across the south channel to Eua. Accomplished the shortest scheduled flight in the world. We were picked up by Seffa (the chef of Hideaway) and were taken on a little guided tour of Eua which didn't consist ...
Round the Island Tour
... . This was where the first Christians hauled themselves ashore and started to really sort things out. The Church is huge in Tonga and with several different faiths BUT their churches are full to bursting and most of the young people have some involvement ...
Toni’s Tour
... 'o há mais, pois não?), árvores de fruto, uma revisão de todas as colheitas que existem na Tonga: Árvores de Mangas, Coqueiros, Melancias, Bananas (“com escorbuto”...não se desenvolvem bem aqui)...etc...dando interessantes ...
The last of Lifuka and Foa
... -me algumas canções Tonganesas (epá não há maneira do “Spell check” do Word reconhecer derivados de “Tonga”...portanto, vamos assumir que esta palavra existe). O karaoke durou pouco tempo. O doutor não estava por cá para ...
Are You Married?
... the lights in the pass, we ended up motoring back and forth outside the reef all night so we could enter at first light. Tonga is a fairly poor country, and Niuatoputapu is quite isolated from the rest of the country. They have a small airstrip that has ...
Sur la plage abandonnee, coquillages et crustaces?
... un 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 !! ...
The midnight feast
... continuava a empurrar comida para a minha boca. E ainda levei umas laranjas e umas maçarocas de milho para depois. Na Tonga, aqui sim, a hospitalidade e o saber receber é uma arte. É normal ser convidado de honra quando há comida e abundância dentro ...
Vava-voooom
... , they have 3 bars, 3 ATMs and 1 internet cafe (here I am). Ended up sinking a large number of ikale's in Tonga Bobs, watching the sunset (not in a romantic way) and swapping stories with a couple (he from Salford, she from Greymouth) ...
Malo e lelei Tonga!
... -se para fazer a entrada neste modesto país do pacifico sul, composto por 176 ilhas (segundo a nova contagem) e que significa "Sul" (Tonga = “Sul”). A primeiras impressões sobre a Tonga, país sobre o qual sei mesmo muito pouco (sei que não ...
Humpbacks, hard questions and half dressed ladies
... also fascinating to hear stories about when Prince Charles visited the island and how the tea served had been a gift from the Queen of Tonga from Harrods! We headed back to the hostel and met up with Sheryl and Chris a Canadian couple we’d met in ...
Pili pili pom
Sataa, sataa ja sataa. Sadetta on nyt kestanyt kuulemma kymmenen paivaa. Me olemme olleet taalla nelja. Valilla ei sada, sitten tulee taas aivan kaatamalla. Toissapaivana oli pitkaan poutaista, eilen vetta tuli senkin edesta. Yolla herasin moneen ...
Cruising the "Friendly Isles" of the Kingdom of To
... Tonga till the end of September; apparently an experience of a lifetime! We have also sussed out a great local Mexican bar called Tonga Bob's Cantina, which does some of the best Mexican food I've ever had and they are also showing all the rugby and ...
10 days in Tonga
... pats in a foreign country made me miss working in Thailand and comfirmed the fact I want to go and work abroad again soon. Tonga's definitely the most remote country I've ever been to in the sense of tourism, evident by kids running after you shouting ...
The real sunday
... . Toda a gente canta em uníssono, dentro das centenas de igrejas que se multiplicam pelas aldeias e cidades. Há poucas regras na Tonga. Uma delas é que cada aldeia tem uma escola primária...e uma igreja. E se for uma igreja morman, sabemos também que ...
Stuck in Ha’apai...for good?!?!
... com a simpatia dos anfitriões do meu alojamento, para me ajudar a encontrar uma solução para voltar novamente para a ilha principal da Tonga, Tongatapu. Apenas por um motivo que até, ele próprio, não deixa de ser simpático: as senhoras querem que ...
Best 4WD Treck Ever
The night before, Fiona, who was staying at the lodge with us, recommended her cousin for our 4WD trip. Nice guy, but unfortunately he spoke only Tongan so communication was pretty much impossible. We started out the trip going from one house to ...
Sukellusta, purjehdusta ja biitsiä
Sama pariskunta kenen kans oltiin kierto-ajelulla heitti meijät sunnuntai-aamuna lentokentälle. Kysyttiin edellisenä iltana et onx kenttä sama ku international kenttä ja täti sano et ei ja sano myös et on pitkä matka international kentältä ...
The hangover!
"A Kava não se deve misturar com álcool porque pode criar sérios problemas inclusive possibilidade de falecimento": Mito, estes meninos fazem isto a toda a hora, e vivem até depois dos 100! “Depois de beber Kava, vais sentir-te muito dormente, ...
Back to Nuku'alofa
Caught the 5:30 am ferry to the main island. Saw the first sunrise of the day on the way over. Spectacular. Hired a driver to take us all the way around the island that day. Then we were headed back home on our flight at 9:30pm. It was a very long ...
Mick komt eraan!
... de wind nu heel behoorlijk aantrekt buiten. Ik hoop maar dat m'n vlucht naar Auckland morgen gewoon vertrekt.... En dan valt op heel Tonga de stroom uit. We steken snel wat kaarsjes aan, en na drie kwartier is de stroom gelukkig terug. Ik wacht nog een ...
The information centre
... centro de informações que nos fornece a informação de que devemos procurar noutro sitio que ali a especialidade é exactamente essa: a de mandar as pessoas atravessar a estrada. Mas ninguém leva a mal, afinal estamos na relaxland, no reino da ...
Soms zit het mee, en soms...
We komen bij de haven aan, en ik schrik. Maar gelukkig is dat roestige schip niet onze veerboot. De echte is niet veel beter – een klein onooglijk rondvaartbootje uit de Amsterdamse grachten moet ons over open zee veertig kilometer verderop ...