Lagoon Lodge Nuku'alofa

... who did this to earn money. We then went on to the coast to see a number of blowholes, trees full of flying foxes, the royal cemetary and the royal palace. The local cemetaries were very colourful and some graves were very ornate indeed. All the school children wear uniform - the girls' dresses and the boys' sarongs being the same colour and pattern. Tonga is another very religious country. Christianity is ...

... dinner. We heard that the plane to Tongatapu had broken down and our return may be in jeopardy. Muppet voiced Jim and his loud mouthed family could not return home but had to move out as some new guests arrived on the Ferry. Vonda and Ross, kiwi's, were visiting Vonda's uncle's grave, as the only casualty of WWII on Tonga. the grave is on the highest point of the island. (There's a famous, by Tongan standards, story surrounding his death ...

... to stumble out hungover, but when I heard part of the plan was to reclaim the 500 books they'd given to the wrong hospice, to give to the kids, I went off the plan a bit. The thought of going into a disabled adults' home and wrestling their books away from them strangely didn't appeal.. though one of the guys thought up a droll T-shirt slogan for their college: 'We take books from retards'. So yeah off that, been on the beach, watching the ...

... ocean came in and lots of cows, trees and crops along the way. Since it was hot, we started hallucinating, thinking that the short cut was each next clearing in the trees. Four or so "shortcuts" later Jody, Tim and I stopped going and waited on the road for Bruce & Susan to come back. When finally they didn't come back, we realized that the we were finally on the right track. The beach there was beautiful with untouched live coral. We snorkelled ...

... as we climbed up and down over 5 to 6' swells, Angie turned pale. She had definitely not gone to her happy place, but was at least in some sort of trance that was pulling her through. Thankfully we (and all the other Tongans who had consumed a lot of greasy food prior to getting on the ferry and has joined us on the bow) all made it to the island with breakfast intact. (Although I did hear that there was a questionable pool ...

Wednesday, 21st November We arrived at Nadi airport at 7am for an action 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 Guest House (the one destination we knew!!) as Lauren's tutor from University had recommended that we stay there. We couldn't have chosen a better home from ...

Its Just under a 3 hour flight from Auckland to Tonga... Karl had originally found a special offer flight back in july and i booked the same flight dates as him. Brad booked to stay a couple of days longer... and Paul who used to work with all of us in Christchurch was coming out for the first week of the trip. Looking at the map Tonga is probably one of the furthest places you could possibly travel to from Ireland, it sits right on the international dateline and is pretty ...

... ku**zlich v**storbene) Staatsob**haupt sich durch innen- und aussenpolitische Schachzuege h**vortut, die denen des Bu**g**meist**s von Schilda um nichts nachstehen: * Zum Beispiel plante **, in diesem gottv**lassenen Winkel d** Erde eine Abschussrampe fu** Weltraumtouristen zu **richten. * D** V**such, von ein** suedkoreanischen Sekte eine Maschine zu kaufen, welche (vom konstanten Gebet ei***** mitgelief**t ...

... kaikui ympäri saarta! :-) Olivat kierrelleet ensin muita saaria, mutta totesivat, että ajanhukkaa kun täällä on tälläinen paratiisi! Tehtiin luultavasti siis täysin oikea valinta kun otettiin suoraan viikko täällä Ha'apailla. Hyvä homma! Nyt hauska juttu, mikä kuultiin tänään :-) Vähän aikaa sitten Boriksen isä Jurgen oli nimittäin parkkeerannut auton väär ...

... a rugby ball or football any day. <br><br>Tonga is one of the smallest countries I have been to and it only has a population of 100,000 plus lots of pigs and dogs who were running around every where. One of the strangest cultural things I have ever seen in my life was in Tonga. As part of Tongan culture when a family have all males and no females the youngest males is forced to become the females of the family. From a young age he is dressed ...