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Vava'u Slideshow
Vava'u
Travel Blogs from Vava'u, Tonga
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A lazy day at Tongan Beach Resort
After last nights shenanigans we all felt pretty hung over this morning and was not up for doing much so we walked into town and asked around to find a beach resort to go to. Lisa at Tropicana set us up with a taxi for Tongan Beach Resort on ...
A Day Of Swimming With The Whales
Tonga is one of the only places in the world where swimming with humpback whales is possible. Many people come here just to experience this "mind blowing" experience. So, on the calmest day in the past few weeks (timed since Jennifer gets very seasick), ...
Palangi Police and East Side Tour
... a ride over to the old harbor where we were to leave for a tour of the islands on the east side of Vava'u. We had called some Palangis (foreigners living in Tonga) a few days before who ran the trips, and they assured us that the trips ran daily at ...
Raining all day...
... the end of the island and back, we had our favorite breakfast of American pancakes with bananas and honey and real coffee from Tonga. Then, we spent the rest of the day relaxing, reading, and hanging out hoping that the rain would taper off ...
Stopping To Breathe
Surrounded by water at every turn, but most of my time here has been on land. Hiking, cracking coconuts, discovering new parts of the island, hiking red-dirt trails to mountaintops that only look over many other little islands covered in foliage have ...
I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!
I did it, I finally swam with whales, Amazing, stupendous, absolutely fantastic, and just plain awesome. The photos probably did not happen, hopefully some of the other in the group will turn out. Just too taken in with it all to even think ...
Hanging Around Mystic Sands
We spend the day around Mystic Sands. First thing in the morning, we went on our usual 45-minute run down and around the village of Talihau. We passed by a group of young girls who laughed and began following us on our run yelling "hello." We have not ...
Gale Force Winds?
... . We have had alot of rain with some sunny days thrown in for seasoning. Oh yeah! I almost forgot! Happy Halloween!!!! Well, at least here it is, although, I guess in California it's almost Halloween as well. Hmm. : ) Vava'u, ...
Off to Vava'u
... so far. His name was Vei (676-771-8447) and he greeted us by saying "I want to thank you so much for your coming to Tonga. I wish you a wonderful stay here." On the way to the airport, we stopped to see the flying foxes (or fruit bats) that lined a few ...
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