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Travel Blogs from Samoa, Samoa
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 ...
Savai'i
Our accommodation for the next two days was to be our first experience of the traditional Samoan fale (far-lay) - a wooden shelter raised from the ground on short stilts with a thatched roof held by poles, and no walls, only coconut leaf blinds for ...
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 ...
Dit is dus Samoa!
Om zes uur wakker, want het hotel staat naast een kerk, en dat kan ook bijna niet anders met de kerkdichtheid op Samoa. Met Junior afgesproken dat ie me om tien uur ophaalt om naar de veerboot te gaan, die om twaalf uur vertrekt. Om tien over tien sms ik ...
Heat, Rats, and Dogs: Life on a Tropical Island
In a lot of ways things aren't that different from the beginning of the year, I’m still in about the same routine. My classes are going well. It’s taken me 6 months, but I finally feel like I have my students under control and have ...
Jan 06, 2011
Jan 13, 2011
Rampgebied
Op maandag staat er weer een huurauto voor me klaar. Een four wheel drive zelfs. Via de noordkust van Upolu ga ik langzaam de binnenlanden in. Vooral wanneer ik af en toe een kronkelend zijweggetje de bergen in neem, kom ik de meest fantastische ...
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 ...
Port Vila, Vanuatu to Pago Pago, American Samoa
... report. How airspace responsibility is divided up out here is a little strange. The weather stayed good until approaching Samoa where a line of buildups was situated along the island chain, fortunately not right in my path. I was finally ...
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 ...
Zwei Paalangi auf Sawai'i
... einfach, dafuer aber auch noch viel zu teuer. Im Gegensatz zu einigen anderen pazifischen Inseln gibt es auf Samoa nahezu keine absolut uebertriebenen Luxusresorts. Man wohnt hauptsaechlich auf sehr schoen direkt am Wasser gelegenen, aber auch gaaanz ...
Routine – all quizzes, cocktails and demos
So, as the ship sailed away from Bora Bora, the next stop is Pago Pago in American Samoa, 1114-odd miles away and 2 days sailing - time for Roisin and Chris to get back in to their 'routine'. The routine was by now having a familiar look about it. ...
I AmSam - Pago squared
... the lushest and greenest environments Chris and Roisin have visited on this trip. This can only mean one thing…RAIN!!!! American Samoa receives 200 inches of rain a year!! As Chris and Roisin had just started walking back toward the centre of town ...
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 ...
Finally aboard
... their leisurely sail trip around the world. It was very dark as we drove for about 1/2 hour along the coast of American Samoa, pulled into a gas station, walked around the back and down some cement steps to a small rock where his dinghy was tied up, ...
Samoa
... 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 and palangii ...
A good October Week
... 6 year old deaf girl. She seemed to find my lap or hand wherever I was and her Dad had to keep coming to fetch her. In Samoa, having someone with special needs in the family is often times viewed as a "curse" and even a bit shameful. After a lot of ...
And a new year begins
... said, it was an interesting trip and I'll leave it at that. Vic and I said our goodbyes and ventured back to a different looking Samoa. On Monday, the day before we left to come back, we got word that Samoa was being hit with a cyclone (a hurricane in ...
Working and Travelling
July 31, 2003 Sunday's here in Samoa are worth some mentioning. Sunday, Aso Sa (aso=day, sa=sacred) in Samoan, is a day for church (sometimes twice a day), a huge feast, and malolo (mah-low-low), meaning rest. Other than church goers, always dressed ...
Samoa is actually two countries!
... finally made it to LAX to find our three-hour layover had shrunk to 10 minutes and so we missed our connection to Apia, Western Samoa. United comped us 17 hours at the Westin waiting for our new flight the next evening. False start! The good news is ...
Crossing the Equator
Crossing the Equator - 7th February 2008. (09.55 ships time 19.55 UK time approx 165 degrees west) We celebrated crossing the equator by King Neptune's Court being convened around the central pool. Great fun was had by all see ...
Westward Ho
... the islands. After church on Sundays, families take the day to rest and visit together. Environment and Ecology Samoa's inland rainforests and cloud forests abound with tropic blossoms such as plumeria, hibiscus, orchids, and wild poinsettia ...
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 ...