Tokelau trip, 3rd to 15th March 2008 Hands up who’s heard of Tokelau. Didn’t think so. In fact it wasn't even one of the options for 'location' on this travelblog site, I had to specially request that they add it. Tokelau is actually a country, but the reason you probably haven’t heard of it is that it’s made up of three tiny coral atolls in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, with a population of about 1400. It’s administered by New Zealand, but the only way to get there is a two-day boat trip from Samoa - no aeroplanes. And this is where I recently spent two weeks. I was there on a work trip, as the women of Tokelau were having a week and a half of events, including an economic summit and the first
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