Coconuts Samoa

... market sells all kinds of vegetables, things we have never seen before (sea cucumber innards, anyone?) and of course lots of coconuts. One minus point of Apia are the roosters that kept on 'singing' all night long. Aren't they supposed to ...

... , no walls, no doors, no windows just ocean! Very cool. Explored the island in a rental car shared with fellow tourists, threw coconuts into blow holes (see photos for explanation) nearly fell off waterfalls (don't worry mum, I will be more careful in ...

... labour is shared. On the tour we saw lots of waterfalls, demonstrations of basket weaving and the 1001 things you can do with coconuts! At one point Skipper got off the bus, wandered into the foliage at the roadside & emerged 30 seconds later with a ...

... from the last volcanic eruptions. Although probably the highlight of the tour was the blowholes at Alofaaga - our guide threw a load of coconuts into the blowhole and these were fired high into the air as it erupted (see pictures and video clip). We ...

... island 18 miles long.  The island was very mountainous, lush and green with lots of beautiful plants, breadfruits, bananas and coconuts.  All the people were friendly and happy to have tourists visit their island, not many ships visit at the ...

... carried in food for us. Traditional food on plates made of leaves-fruit, taro, whole roasted pigs, along with fresh coconuts to drink. While they were serving, they commenced to sing strange, clear melodious harmonies which brought me close to tears. ...

... our final week of the 9, we have chosen Samoa to be a great way to end our travels.   Our first 4 nights in Samoa were spent on the pristine beach of Lalomanu. The most picture perfect paradise beach we have ever seen, with the best snorkling on ...

... round New Zealand for six months had taken its toll and we were in need of a holiday. So we took a week at Coconuts Beach Resort & Spa in Samoa. It was pretty much what you might expect: a week of lazing by the pool, where the most energetic thing we ...

... also gave us our first glimpse of the interior of the island and the villages with their fine gardens and groves of bananas, coconuts, papaya, mango, the villages which will be our homes for the next two years. On Saturday we will quit this hotel and ...

Days start early in Samoa. People start getting up around 5:30, with the sun. We can hear the sound of coconuts being scraped out to extract the coconut cream. The smell of smoke drifts into the room from the cooking fires. The water runs a people ...

... Survivor. An old local ma who is a bit of a legend requested some money to take you up to the blowholes and he threw coconuts into them as the swell approached from the sea, which resulted in the coconut shooting up to easily 100meters in the air which ...

... and felt too bad to stay long. As we walked back to the car there were now several more people around the fales preparing coconuts for us and then we knew everything was alright. We accepted the coconuts and drank then as we talked with the man. He ...

... so in the end it all worked out well. Coconut trees are full of nutritious meals so who cares about the cook anyway! Coconuts don't exactly make for a Sunday meal though and even if buses don't run on Sundays we decided to take our chances ...