Travel Blog Photos from Tonga (1,183)
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Vava'u, Tonga |
Tongatapu, Tonga |
Nuku Alofa, Tonga |
Tonga, Tonga |
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... normally use as it highlights any particles in the water. Everyone assured me that this vis (best I've ever dived in) is awful for Tonga, and I should come back in January when the seas are as still as a mill pond and you can see for 50 metres or more... ...
The travelling bad luck continued. Don, owner of Otuhaka, dropped us off bright and early at the small tin shed which serves as the domestic terminal. Rick stopped off to keep me company before heading to get his later flight from the international ...
... time for tea. Two hours seemed like planty of time to get ready and make the drive into Nuku'alofa (a half hour journey). Then Tonga time struck. By 9am, our coffees still hadn't appeared, and I was starting to worry. By 9.15, we were sat waiting for ...
Excited by glimpses of blue sky, we got a taxi into Nuku'alofa, to explore the capital and pick up a rental car. We passed the Royal Tombs and the Church of St Anthony of Padua, which reminded me of a Bournemouth theatre. We wandered along the waterfront ...