Auga Seaside Resort Asau

Once again it was another early morning flight - we have got quite good at these flights over the past few weeks. Up at 5, down in reception with bags by 5.45, then on the road. As it was so early there was very little traffic on the road so we arrived at the airport with loads of time to drop off the car and fill ourselves up with coffee!

I was a pain through security yet again ...

... to Apia town centre so we were within walking distance of everything. We went to the markets the next day. They were in a big shed but had some really nice stuff. We bought some Lava lavas, fans and a few other gifts for next to nothing. Was good that the money was easily converted with no fee at the ANZ. Ate at Paddles restaurant which was absolutely awesome. Vailima the local beer was $AUS 3 for a 750mL bottle and was so nice being pretty humid and around 32c.
Manase, Samoa sallybaumann

My first impression of Savai'i: I stand in water made white by the reflection of the sand beneath it and I watch the colour deepen, flaring out into endless blue; and as embarassingly cliched as this is, I want to cry. Looking out at the turquoise foreverness, I feel the need to purge my heart through my mouth and send it soaring into the sea. I'll let it float there, in the middle of nowhere, until the water and salt impregnates it. Making it swell to it's ...

Leaving Lalomanu behind we hopped on the early morning bus to Apia, destination Savai'i, the bigger but less inhabited of Samoa's two main islands. The bus came a minute late at 7.01 am (starting to think all this talk about the buses not having any schedules and the driver deciding if he's up for a trip or not is a ************). We sat our white palagi behinds on the wooden seats and enjoyed the wind blowing in through the windows and the Samoan reggae blasting. The bus ...

... meal all four of us headed for the dive centre near by. Anders was getting his PADI cert. and I just came along for the ride, well that's what I thought anyway. When we left the diving centre I had somehow agreed to go out with the other girls the day after to snorkel while they were diving, how did that happen? I can't even snorkel! Well, the next day Anders had his first class and I found my self on a boat out at sea, convincing my ...

Anne ja Gerli hommik algas väga mõnusalt - kõigepealt rikkalik hommikusöök ning seejärel lõõgastav massaaz, mis oli hotellihinna sees. Massöörideks olid väikest kasvu kohalikud tüdrukud, kelle liigutused olid üllatavalt konkreetsed ja jõulised - igatahes mõjus see väga hea hommikuäratusena. Kl 12 ootas meid mõne kilomeetri kaugusel sadamas praam ning asusime teele teise saare poole. Praamile mahtus kokku ca 20 ...

For the last 6 days we have been staying on the island of Savai'i. It's bigger than than 'Upolu, but much less villages and absolutely devoid of inhabitants in the middle. So many thing's happened while in Savai'i. Here's a list of the things that happened and that we saw in Savai'i and a little description of what happened: Beautiful Beach - We were staying at Tanu Beach Fales in the Village of Manase. Yet another beautiful beach, probably more so than the one at Faofao. It was ...

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 privacy - all natural air conditioning. Most Samoans live and sleep in similar structures, minus the blinds, and sometimes now with concrete structures and corrugated iron roofs ...

... cut it 4 times per year, just before each race. We went on the boat to Savaii. We were more than happy to be escorted to the Captains room! The view was beautiful! He took us to Samoa's one and only shopping centre - half the size of Bangor shopping centre. Next he took us for a little drive showing us some of Savaii. We asked if there was any surf in Savaii to which he replied he knew just the place and escorted us there straight away in ...

After a very long flight we arrived in Samoa in the middle of the night (30 degrees & 90% humidity). We were greeted at the airport by a Samoan quartet playing traditional music. In the heat the men sweated & the women glowed as we waited for our bags to come off the carousel. IN APIA,UPOLU - THE CAPITAL In Apia we had booked into a traditional 'Samoan Travel Home' which meant that we were sleeping in 'fales' in the garden of a Samoan family. We ...