Sails Lodge & Restaurant Nuku'alofa
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Vuna Rd Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga
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TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS
Do not order Tonga Fish and Fries (see story)
Taxis have no light to identify them they have a T in their registration plate.
Airport to Nufu'alofa about 40 Tonga dollars (3 to the £1)
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Landed at 8.30am. Taxi man waiting. Had a really nice 40 minute drive into capital Nufu’alofa on the Tongan Island of Tongatapu. Nice to look about while driving and they do drive really slowly. Arrived at our hotel Tonga Sails Lodge...
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Today is a bank holiday so expect things to be fairly quiet.
Slept really well last night. Good air conditioning and ceiling fan at Sails Lodge.
Great breakfast of fruit and toast. Locally grown pineapples and watermelons tasted divine and had so much flavour. Apparently it is watermelon season and by the sides of the roads are people trying to sell their home-grown vegetables and fruit to you.
Hotel has wireless internet so tried to catch up with things. ...
TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS
Attend the Tonga Tourism Cultural Festival in 2010, This years was the first but will be repeated in early December 2010 we are sure.
Ask everywhere what is happening in Town as the advertising of these events is not very good.
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Up early for breakfast and dressed in our best! We are off to the Tonga Tourism Cultural Festival 2009 in Nuku'alofa. We arrives at 9am with our special invitation from the Tourist Minister. We were invi...
TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS
Ask for a Round the Island Tour with Toni's tours. About 40 TOP. You can get a bit cheaper but our tour had a very nice guide Peter (ask for him) and it lasted 7 hours. Peter also went out of his way to drop two backpackers at a hostel on route and take them to a shop to get food.
Also check before you book if the hostel has a restaurant, cooking facilities or if not how far it is situated from a shop. It can sometimes be 3 or 4 kilometres and often involves...
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Go to Reef Café, Nuku'alofa and sit and watch the local kids jumping off the harbour wall into the sea or clambering over the decks of The Pacific Blue fishing boat to launch themselves from the upper deck…..nobody minds, cares or makes any attempt to stop them….great to watch and not one of them got hurt in any way and we did not see any drownings.
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We had a lazy day today, but before brekkie we said goodbye to Brent who ha...
TIPS FOR TRAVELLERS
It is our last day in Tonga and despite the fact that we have only been in Tongatapu group of islands we will be coming back sometime. The Tongans are a friendly people and have been very helpful and welcoming. They are so easygoing that you almost want to stay here but we have places to go.
Be prepared for the unusual in Tonga…things just happen
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We were woken up this morning by music…..for music read full brass band of the ...
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<By Jay> Malo e lelei !! Et voila, nos 10 jours aux Tonga se terminent. On aura fait tout ce qu'on avait prevu, plongee, snorkeling, glandouille, degustation de poisson et homard mais... la vache faut meriter son bifteck ici !! Arrives sur Tongatapu (l'ile principale, capitale), nous nous sommes rendu compte qu'il n'y avait pas trop de plages avec de beaux recifs de corail dans les parages, alors apres une coconut fraiche et une salade de poisson cru au Friends cafe pour ...
Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga creuvtons
... back to the ship we noticed many islanders waiting at bus stops. The tour guide explained that all the buses on the island have been allocated to P & O. Unfortunately; they will have to wait until the tours have finished. When we arrived back to the ship the weather was deteriating, there was the sound of thunder and it started to rain. Fortunately, we were in the cabin as the rain came down in torrents, almost flooding the balcony. We sailed ...
Nuku, Tonga rrybij
... colourfully before our eyes. We decided to take a leaf out of our Lonely Planet Guide and do the walking tour of Nuku'alofa. This route took us around the main landmarks and also off the beaten track to see the quaint Churches and surprisingly brightly adorned graveyards and we sneaked a peek at the off-limits Royal Tomb from the gates. We ventured past the King's Palace, which was unfortunately in the process of being renovated. The beauty of the ...
Nuku'alofa, Tongatapu, Tonga pacific_girls
... and friendliest i have come across.. everyone comes up to shake hands and talk to you and say hello and all are so curious as to why we would come to Tonga. Alot of the capital Nuku'alofa had been burned down and destroyed in riots a few months back.. people rebelling against the government and king which have to much power over the people. Sunday it being a very religious day we went to the local church for the traditional Tongan Mass which was really interesting.. First ...
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