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- Nuku'alofa
- Capital
- Pa'anga (TOP)
- Currency
- 104,227
- Population
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Tongatapu Slideshow
Tongatapu
Travel Blogs from Tongatapu, Tonga
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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!
... . Een paar honderd hobbelige meters verder stijgen we op, en een minuut of acht later landen we geruisloos op het vliegveld van Tongatapu. Ik heb de veerboot geen moment gemist. Voor de vliegtuigfanaten - ik heb de vlucht opgenomen, en ga nog proberen 'm ...
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 ...
Transvestites of Tonga
... arrived in Vava'u. Very pretty place, but the people didnt seem too friendly. Maybe I was just comparing it to Fiji, but Tonga overall was a bit dissapointing to me. Only went out for 1 night to explore another anchorage, which did produce this photo. ...
The Kingdom of Tonga - Where Time Begins
... a Thomas Hardy novel, and we felt very privileged to have been there. After a couple of days spent further exploring Tongatapu, we boarded an internal flight north to the Ha'apai Group of islands at Fua'amotu Airport's domestic terminal which operates ...
The Tongan home-stay
... 's. O senhor é muito simpático e prestável. Parece que cozinhou um peixinho para o Tomas, no dia anterior. A hospitalidade da Tonga é assim. Memorável. Mais tarde, à tarde, fui apanhar um autocarro público para ir para o aeroporto. Cinco minutos à ...
Hello, I’ll be your co-pilot for the day
... , pergunta-me se me quero sentar em frente ao cockpit, do lado do co-piloto. Claro que sim! E é assim que esta viagem para Tongatapu se transforma numa viagem altamente cénica com todas aquelas ilhas, ilhotas e atóis mesmo por baixo da baixa altitude a ...
Face your fears
... as much fun. Cue" extreme gloating from Simon for that comment. We went to a buffet dinner and cultural show and the Tonga National Centre which included traditional dancing and the humiliation of Simon as he was pulled onstage to dance with one of the ...
Where the day begins
... to the guide, this is the only multiheaded palm tree in the world, it apparently proves that I was indeed in Tonga. The coastline is dramatically beautiful here with waves crashing into rocks creating blowholes, high cliffs, and white sandy ...
The private island
... duas vezes por semana. O desembarque em Pangaimotu é informal: alguém há-de lembrar-se que tenho de apanhar o mesmo barco de volta a Tongatapu por volta das quatro. Apesar de estar a uma razia de ser inabitada, a ilha tem um “Resort”. Ora ...
Eua Island...Tongans on Sunday
Tongans do not work on Sunday. That much was very clear when we woke up to decide on the day's events. So, we did what everyone else was doing. and went to church. Taki drove Bruce, Susan, Jody dropped us off down the road at the closest Wesleyan ...
Last kingdom of the Pacific
... waking up here. The country is made of 171 islands, the capital, Nuku'Alofa being on the main island named Tongatapu. Locals are very, veeeerryyy laid-back here and surprisingly there were some violent riots in 2005 to protest against Chinese monopoly on ...
Suuret kalastajat
Saavuimme kahden hirvittavan matkapaivan jalkeen Niafuun, tongalle. aallot olivat 3-5 metriset ja vene keikkui ihan hervottomasti. Voileivan tekeminen oli taas niin suuri ponnistus, etta kun Mika soi siita osan, niin suutuin oikein kunnolla. Kaikki oli ...
Working at the car wash, yeah!
... on Tonga. Zaterdag: tijd om weer te verkassen, en wel naar het kleinere eiland Eua. Het oudste eiland van Tonga, en veel heuvelachtiger en begroeider dan Tongatapu. Ik heb bedacht dat het leuk is om heen te varen, en terug te vliegen. Kala kijkt me niet ...
In Tonga at 2AM
... . By the time we arrived at the Dupincia it was after 3am. Our room was fine, not fancy and it had AC a rarity in Tonga. Awoke to the buzz of weed wacking outside at 9:30am and realized we needed to get a move on. Showered, dressed and walked ...
Tongatapu - Wilma bittet zum Tanz
Nach unserer erneuten Ankunft auf der Hauptinsel Tongatapu steht am Flughafen doch glatt ein Taxifahrer, der uns in knapp 40 minuten in die Hauptstadt Nuku Alofa bringt. Dort hilft uns die staatliche Touriinformation doch glatt weiter und vermittelt uns ...
The Kindom of Tonga
... packed morning of back to back flights. After an internal flight through to Suva and then from there, we arrived at Tongatapu airport. We picked up a Taxi cab without a clue where we were going and so we quickly opted for Sela's ...
Underwater
... 8211; booking domestic flights, etc. Next time, I’d book my flights to the outlying islands before I arrived in hopes of avoiding Tongatapu entirely. It’s nickname of 'the big smoke’ is pretty accurate. Not what I had in mind of my slice ...
Last Island
... 3, 2011 – Day 29 Our visit to the islands of Tonga was a pleasant surprise. Meandering through the various islands, reefs and sand bars was a feat in itself managed well by our ...
Jan 22, 2011
Tonga Visit
... visits to Port Hedland or Broome anymore. When I go for a market visit its international. We export Coca-Cola to Tonga, Vanuatu, Samoa, American Samoa, Cook Islands plus another 4 or 5 smaller islands, so hopefully more international visits await. It's ...
Cancelled due to Cyclone Jasmine
Our Captin deceided that since it appeard that the ship and cyclone would reach Tonga about the same time it was best to cancel the port of ...
Tonga
So its late on the 25th when I'm due to board NZ26 to Tonga, I still haven't booked accommodation, shit, I'm screwed, having repeatedly tried to call the 'Backpacker place' which the Lonely planet, (which i have come to affectionately call the 'Lonely ...
A place to catch up on the internet
... the 2nd Feb) the ms Amsterdam is edging close to the quayside for us to disembark on our last Pacific Ocean paradise Islands. Tonga was never the friendliest of these islands and back in the time when Captain Cook called in here during his second trip to ...
Tonga
... . If you were naughty, a girl came and hit you with a broom! Harvey got sweets when he answered something right.......he was in Year one so got lots right and lots of sweets! We really liked Tonga, it was really friendly. The pool table was cool ...
Vom Tellerwäscher zum…
... Auf der Speisekarte stand ein weiterer Pasta-Abend. Zum Nachtisch gab es Papaya. Mittlerweile, neben der Kokosnuss, meine Lieblingsfrucht auf Tonga. Später surfte ich im vom Restaurant aus durchs Internet. Bei Facebook las ich, dass Elisa, wir wohnten am ...
Hiking the extinct volcanic island of Tofua
... was one of the best things I have ever done, and it was the most isolated I have ever been as well, it was quite amazing. You don't get much more isolated that 6 hours way from the main land in Tonga in the middle of no where it was really an ...
A quick dash...
After successfully landing at Tongatapu, and not having a ticket to get to Vava'u, I met a very nice taxi driver who rushed me over to the "Domestic" airport on the other side of the tarmac and was lucky enough to get the last ticket for the next flight ...