Vacations Beach Fales Savai'i

Situada en el Pacífico Sur se encuentra Samoa, un conjunto de islas donde Savaii y Upolu son sus islas principales. La isla fue administrada por New Zealand desde 1914 hasta 1962, pero su historia se remonta hasta 3.000 años atrás. El pueblo Samoi ha seguido con sus costumbres y tradiciones de vida desde entonces.<br><br> Famosa por su belleza natural, sus playas de arena blanca, pueblos pintorescos donde todavia viven en fales (cabañas abiertas construidas en lo alto ...

... before I reasoned with myself that it was just a crab. Not Satan. My soul was safe (for now). Then the hunt began (because there was no way I was going to be able to sleep with something that huge and able to cause my bodily harm hanging out above my head while I slept!), I looked for something to poke it out from the roof and into the sand - I hoped. It just sat there. Staring at me. Like Satan. Laughing. Evilly. Finally, I found a stick and just as I ...

... more than that bloke from Stockholm! Virgin Cove is a beautiful place to visit and the beach is gorgeous, landscaped and a bit artificial but definitely everything you dream a Pacific beach to be. There is a less crowded (read: nobody there apart from you) beach west of Virgin Cove where we went for a walk and discovered fresh water springs by the beach, spurting water from under the sand. Soon it was time for us to head for the airport but before ...

... a taxi driver, to give us a lift to the next village and the fales there. So by 8am we were already in our destination and we had thought it would take all day to get there! Attending church is one of the must do's in Samoa but sadly we couldn't experience this since we had all our luggage with us and it's disrespectful to enter with all your bakpacking gear... The Samoans do take their religion seriously and Sunday church is an occasion to dress up for. The ...

... stretching out to every direction with thousands of fishes swimming among the coral - even got to snorkel above a shipwreck. Some people in our group spotted a turtle but we missed him - pity... Oh well, can't complain! After the few days spent on Manase beach we caught the bus back to Lusia's Lagoon with Jasmine and Sebastian who by now had become our travelling buddies in Samoa. We were all planning on taking the ferry back to ...

... to hit pigs that seem to be everywhere. Everybody waves and you soon start feeling like the Queen of England waving back. Samoa lies just east of the international date line and this means that the westernest point of Samoa is the last place on earth to see the sunset every day. We found a nice place with fales on a beautiful beach and watched the sun go down, last people to see the sun on Tuesday 9 Sept 2008. To celebrate the occasion we toasted with some coconut ...

... 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 ...