Regina's Beach Fales Savai'i

... Samoan style. There was alot of coconut, taro and fish. We also had rice every night. Breakfast consisted of fresh fruit and toast and a few other things.

We went swimming with the turtles - it was more fun feeding them from the edges than swimming in the pond with them as it was pretty murky. The women's handicraft stall was also really good (didn't have any trouble with getting stuff through customs). The buses that operate in Samoa are hilarious -they ...

... but instead was taking time for me. I feel like I'm on the tip of something but I'm too toothy and whatever's on the tip of my tongue keeps getting trapped by my teeth. Stuck inside the dark cavern of my mouth; it will not voice itself. ~~ Sometimes I feel so utterly triumphant that, stepping out towards the water, I know I could walk on it. But unlike Jesus, I'm no Son of God, and my uncertainty (that I won't just drowned) acts like a ball and chain ...

... fish and had them for dinner - the traditional way of killing the fish is to bite it in the head, and that's how it was done... We decided not to help with that part! The dinner was delicious, as you would expect. Sung and Otilia had offered to take us the airport on the other side of the island meaning we could enjoy our last evening in Samoa to the max before taking the plane back to New Zealand at 2 am, it's not often that you are fishing just ...

... a été surpris de trouver l'endroit plein à craquer, avec plus de samoans que de touristes, du hip hop local à fond la caisse et une atmosphère de fête. On a patienté quelques minutes près de la reception mais personne n'est venu s'occuper de nous. Après environ 30 minutes et après avoir parler à quelques personnes, on a compris que l'endroit avait été reservé pour la journée (voir le week end - tout allait dépendre de quand ces fêtards avaient l'intention d'arrêter ...

... keeps stretching and stretching. Après avoir ramené la voiture de location sur Salelologa, on a pris un bus direction Manase, l'endroit le plus touristique de l'ile de Savai'i. Après avoir fait le tour des différents villages-vacances offrant des fales sur la plage, nous avons décidés de faire une reservation à Tanu's Beach Fales. A Manase, il y a beaucoup de concurrence ce qui fait que les prix sont plutôt interssants. La plage et ...

... host tree) and from the tree we saw some flying foxes circling above us. Flying foxes are like huge bats with a wingspan of up to 1 metre - batman should have been called the Flying Foxman... Après 4 jours passés sur Lalomanu, il est temps de bouger un peu et de voir autre chose. On a pris le bus à 7.00 du matin de Lalomanu direction Apia. Aujourd'hui nous changeons d'ile, destination l'ile de Savai'i (la plus grande des deux). Le bus était là à 7.01 hrs (on commence ...

... e. Oli päris võimas kogemus. Lisaks saime suurest uudishimust enam-vähem kõik märjaks ja tegime ohtralt pilte. Käisime vaatamas ka kahe puu vahele pandud rippsilda ning ühte küla, mis oli alles hiljuti orkaani poolt ära uhutud. Puu, mille otsa tuli rippsilla nägemiseks ronida, oli paras lahmakas ning selle tipus moodustus okstest huvitav suur lohk, milles on soovijatel võimalik ööd veeta. Meie jätsime ...

... have been stunning if it had rainned though. But, oh well, these things happen eh? The Lava Fields - On the drive down the sun came back out, bugger you might think, but the rain clouds were still hoverring over the top so we didn't feel to ********e by. We then decided to go to visit the Lava Fields, the newest of which were created by the eruptions between 1911 and 1915. It's a kind of strange and eerie place. And the ruin of the old LMS Church in the village on the lavas ...

... of family members who run Tanu's Beach Fales. This began with a drive along picture-postcard coast to the canopy walkway, a swingbridge high up in the rainforest. The shaky cartoon image of swingbridges came to mind on noticing that what we were tentatively walking across one by one was made of strung together aluminium ladders. We all made it across safely to climb the wooden stairway to the treehouse at the top of a ...

... interesting coral which was struggling to recover after a cyclone 2 years ago which devastated the islands. MANASE - SAVAII ISLAND After Lalomanu we got a ferry across to Savai'i the other large island making up Western Samoa. Although it was supposed to be the dry season, it rained very heavily during our time in Samoa. Many of the rivers had flooded making the only road impassible in parts so we had to drive round the long way which meant a long wait ...