Country Info
- Apia
- Capital
- Tala (WST)
- Currency
- 179,058
- Population
- WS
- Country Code
Apia Slideshow
Apia
Travel Blogs from Apia, Samoa Western
Finding our feet on our first day
... . Visited Aggie Greys, the most famous hotel in Samoa. She was a very priviledged woman with rich husband and known throughout Samoa but her husbands business collapsed and overnight they were penniless with 4 children. Her husband went to pieces (well he ...
It's now official i've been sworn in as a ...
... and local foods, tonight is a parade, tomorrow is a fire dancing show. The festivities last all week, culminating with the Miss Samoa pageant on Saturday. The girlfriend of one of the Peace Corps volunteers here is a contestant in the show, and some of ...
In memory of TimTam
... ended up painting a world map, an oceana map and a Samoa map at the primary school. The secondary school got a world map and a Samoa map. Turns out the maps use less paint than I thought. I think we can paint a map at every school in ...
Samoa - teist korda 29. veebruar
... olema nii prestiizne, et turult ei lahkutagi - seal magatakse ning hoitakse iga hinna eest oma kättevõideldud kohast kinni. Samoa tundub Fiji kõrval oluliselt troopilisem ja oma väiksuse ja kompaktsuse tõttu ka justkui ilusam - kogu maantee kulgeb ...
Today was my favorite training day so far ...
... this evening when I was able to pack everything back up in less than an hour. It must have taken 100x that to pack up for Samoa. Tomorrow morning at 10 am we leave for our training village of Utulaelae. I'll be stuck there for a week without anyone to ...
Ein bisschen Fidschi - ein bisschen Samoa
... aus Freundlichkeit und Interesse begründet. Heute geht es für mich dann in einem der bunt bemalten Busse, die hier auf Samoa verkehren (siehe auch das entsprechende Foto), an die Südküste der Hauptinsel 'Upolu. Dort werde ich in einer sogenannten ...
Resume Language
Well, it is that time here in Samoa. All ministries within the government are developing their three-year plan for development and structure. What this means for me is a heavy dose of resume writing for the last two weeks. A couple of Thursdays ago, ...
Samoa August 28, 2007
... be a bit cooler (not much though). The place we are staying is next to a waterfall and natural freshwater pool. While in Apia, we will also be taking in some of the South Pacific Games, hopefully some rugby and b-ball. We also have to go ...
From The Cradle of Polynesia
... ludicrously scheduled Air Pacific flight (depart 0145, arrive 0435, not connecting with any other flight, why??) to Apia on the island on Upolu in Samoa. After making our way into the city, eventually checking into our accommodation and organising some of ...
Sunny Samoa
... a massive reef only 10 metres out into the sea. Finally we had to say goodbye, we were both pretty shocked at how beautiful Samoa was. We originally just planned it in as a final week of sun but it offered so much more with it's fantastic people and ...
Winter Wonderland
... keer), en als ik buiten een ommetje maak hoor ik gejuich. Nu'u zit naar de finale van de Hongkong Sevens te kijken, waarin Samoa het opneemt tegen Nieuw Zeeland. Helaas winnen de All Blacks, maar Nu'u is apetrots op z'n landje. Hij heft me gisteren ...
Apia
... was a wonderful gesture, and it became clear we were going to get along with them swimmingly. The 17 islands which constitute Western Samoa lie a few miles to the east of the international dateline, and little more than the throw of a stone from the ...
Letzter Gruß aus Samoa
... das Robert Louis Stevenson Museum besichtigte. Der in Deutschland vor allem für "Die Schatzinsel" bekannte Autor verbrachte auf Samoa seine letzten Lebensjahre. Ein weiteres Highlight folgte dann heute, wohnte ich doch im hiesigen Stadion, dem Apia ...
Natbezweet en natgeregend
... “Rijksscholengemeenschap Hameland” had vast heel cool gestaan. Bij het hotel worden m’n vermoedens bevestigd: Fa’a Samoa. Het personeel weet van niks, en dus wordt Luna van Reserveringen thuis gebeld. Slaapdronken vertelt ze me ...
Rampgebied
... die ze voor me pellen en openen is verrukkelijk. Ook daarvan krijg ik er nog eentje mee voor onderweg. Ik slaap vanavond weer in Apia, en word door Bob ontvangen in Aniva's Place, net buiten het centrum. De enige andere gast is Dimeet uit Fiji, die ...
Arrive Samoa
... day, we left the city to find the Samoa we had come to see, deciding to begin with the larger (but less populated) of Samoa's two main islands, Savai'i. Despite our taxi arriving at the wharf over an hour before departure of the boat, we found the ...
The beautiful South Pacific
... want to listen to it at home. Its a sort of cross between reggae and pop, and is openly loud and brash! Cool! Samoa is paradise. I cant imagine anywhere more relaxing and beautiful. The sea is clear and turquoise coloured. The sand is white, the ...
Samoa – where they drive like us
80 miles west of Chris and Roisin's last port of call (Pago Pago), lies Western Samoa. This group of islands consists of 2 main islands and several smaller ones. The capital is Apia, situated on the larger of the 2 islands Upolu. These islands are huge ...
Samoa
... Christmas and New Years at Lalomanu beach on Upolu. The rest of the time we were either sweating it out in Apia, the capital or travelling around. Samoa is one of the most beautiful places we´ve ever been and we met some of the best people both locals ...
Working and Travelling
... been destroyed by cyclones as well. If you look on a map, you will see that the island of Savai'i is the western most island before the International Dateline, and Falealupo-the western most village. We watched an amazing sunset on the rocks and turned ...
Westward Ho
... which crowned the Moais were carved. After lunch you depart for the airport to board your private jet for Apia, Samoa, the heart of Polynesia. Your attractive resort is nestled amongst acres of tropical gardens and tall, swaying palm ...
Settling in Samoa
... called pe'a, using sharpened sharks teeth as the needle that is hammered into the skin with a stone. Other places in the world have reintroduced tattooing after extinction, but it has remained strong in Samoa even after the missionaries. Fa ...
PARADISE
... . 2. PEACE CORPS AND MISSIONARIES - In my humble and 100% absolutely correct opinion (hee hee), the Western world doesn't have anything on Samoa. With a population of 162,000, Samoa must be one of the countries with the largest Peace Corps ...
Western Samoa
... ) screeching orders. In the village many of the children ran around us loving having their photos taken, so hopefully i have some great shots, on my SLR. That night we returned to Apia, for dinner ready to leave to Savaii ( Samoa's 2nd larger ...
House on stilts
When we got up at Brett's house on stilts the next morning, Brett was outside hacking coconuts off the trees in his yard for breakfast. He'd gathered a selection of local fruits for our breakfast, so we feasted on mango, pineapple and paw paw, while ...
In the dark heat
... Brett, and several of his Samoan counterparts, all bearing Samoan leis (they have a different name to the Hawaiian word; I think in Samoa they're called ules.) It was great being greeted by so many people at about 1 in the morning, I was surprised ...
Bye Bye Samoa
... , food, innocence and natural landscapes completely made up for any discomfort I experienced with their heat and mosquitoes. Bye bye Samoa. Your heat almost killed me and your mosquitoes ate me alive, but you were a beautiful and memorable country ...