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Background: The archipelago of "The Friendly Islands" was united into a Polynesian kingdom in 1845. It became a constitutional monarchy in 1875 and a British protectorate in 1900. Tonga acquired its independence in 1970 and became a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. It remains the only monarchy in the Pacific.




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bennies place
bennies place
GIANT CLAM
Tonga Ha'apai Dive # 4 Bennies Place Australasia » Tonga By FemkeWillemtravels April 12th 2007 Femke&WillemBennies place: Bennies place was mooi vanwege de goede visibility en veel vissen. zie foto's. Daarnaast voor het eerst de 60 minuten gehaald bij een echter duik!!! max depth 20 meter Time: 60 minuten !!! [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 12th 2007 | 122 Views | [diary=149080]

bennies place
Bennie's place
Bennie s place

Akateu
Akateu
Whitetipped Reef sharks
Tonga Ha'apai Dive # 3 Akateu Australasia » Tonga By FemkeWillemtravels April 11th 2007 Femke&Willem AKATEU, shark city Akateu is the dive site for sharks, especially grey reef sharks and white tipped sharks. Ocasionally tiger sharks (which you rather not visit) and leopard sharks. After 15 minutes diving the reef wall we saw one white tipped reef shark a little short [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 11th 2007 | 149 Views | [diary=149079]

Akateu
akateu
akateu

Tonga
Tonga
Snorkeling Haapai (north), reef just off the beach
Tonga - Ha'apai Snorkling Australasia » Tonga By FemkeWillemtravels April 11th 2007 Femke&Willem De eerste dag op Ha'apai hebben we fietsjes gehuurd en zijn we naar het noorden van het eiland gefietst, waar het rif het mooist zou zijn. Na 40 minuten fietsen (12 km, net als utrecht- s' berg. heimwee.... NOT), komen we aan op een verlaten maar prachtig stukje wit zandstrand met pracht [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 11th 2007 | 162 Views | [diary=147009]

Tonga
Tonga
Tonga

Tonga Ha\
Tonga Ha\
Do you see me or not ??
Tonga - Ha' apai Dive #1 Australasia » Tonga By FemkeWillemtravels April 11th 2007 Femke&Willem Today we should have the first two boat dives with Happy Ha'apai Divers.. On our way to the first dive site the boat got flatted so turn straight back again..No boat dive today... Glenn the owner of the divecentre has to repair the boat which take the whole day.. Instead of a boat div [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 11th 2007 | 176 Views | [diary=148808]

Tonga Ha'apai
Tonga Ha\
Tonga Haapai

Tonga Ha'apai Dive # 2 Haano Tunnel Australasia » Tonga By FemkeWillemtravels April 11th 2007 Femke&WillemVandaag gedoken bij Ha'anno tunnels; een cave dive. allemaal spleten en grotten door!! Ook weer een aantal clams en nudibranches gezien. En weer veeel koraal. erg mooi. Max depth 24 mt. Bottom time 52 min. [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 11th 2007 | 131 Views | [diary=149078]

Haanno tunnels
Haanno tunnels
Haanno tunnels

Pangai, de hoodstad van de Ha’apai groep is een dorp van 3.000 inwoners heeft welgeteld 6 winkeltjes, 4 guesthouses en 1 restaurant. (en 4 toeristen). Haapai eilanden groep heeft 62 eilandjes waarvan 45 onbewoond. We lunchen in het restaurant waar we zeer waarschijnlijk de komende 5 dagen gaan eten. De eigenaar (nieuw zeelander) gaf aan dat hij samen met de overige toeristen op het eiland (4 stuks) gingen kamperen voor de komende 4 dagen... en dat het restaurant dus voor die dagen dicht gaat...hahahah..(zijn personeel was weg gelopen vonden het een te drukke baan. De rest van de d [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 10th 2007 | 152 Views | [diary=149090]

Ha'apai
Ha'apai
Ha'apai

Tonga- Tongatapu 7 jaar geleden hoorde ik voor het eerst over Tonga tijdens een sketsch van Muiswinkel, waarin hij Boudewijn Buch naspeelt in zijn legendarische Pacific eiland documantaire. ‘Hello, are you the ‘Bundscoach’ of Tonga?, what will be the results of tonights soccer match?... - ik denk tweee-noel !!. Deze sketch is toendertijd bij nutricia meerder malen gedraaid en vooral nagespeeld. Vervolgens heb ik thuis Tonga opgezocht in de atlas en zag meer dan 100 eilandjes in de pacific en nam me voor als ik nog een keertje in de buurt kom, dan w [View Full Entry]

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Published: April 9th 2007 | 195 Views | [diary=149089]

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tonga
tonga

By Tamsin
September 19th 2006
Kings Funeral Oceania » Tonga
Tuesday 19 Sept: The day of the King of Tonga’s Funeral. We got a lift into town and saw saw the procession of 100s of people including the King being carrired on a big temple structure by a 100 people. It was very impressive with thousands of people watching. Once the King had arrived at the tombs it was to far away to see anything and I ended up entertaining some local people with cartoons and paper stars. It was a very special day to be part of as it is probably the beginning of the end of the last monarchy [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 27th 2006 | 273 Views | [diary=91438]

The king
100 people
1000

By Tamsin
September 18th 2006
Last few days in Vava'u Oceania » Tonga
Nancy and Stuart
Nancy and Stuart
Who I spent all my time in Tonga with.
Saturday 16th Sept: Went diving today, it rained as we left - it stopped shortly after but the water stayed choppy all day. We had to kit ourselves up which wasn’t good in the choppy weather. The first dive was through split rock- a big 20 ft rock -split in half one person wide. There wasn’t much to see as you swim through the rock but before we went through you can see lots of fish- including a lion fish and some smaller fish swum through my fingers. The second dive we went through a tunnel and into an underground cave [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 27th 2006 | 393 Views | [diary=91435]

Friendship
The medics and us at Tonga Bobs
The Kart

By Tamsin
September 15th 2006
Tonga Side School Oceania » Tonga
On Thursday and Friday I went up to the village school to help out. (I had gone up on Monday to offer my services). It was called Tonga Side School and was attached to a Tongan speaking Primary school but the side school taught everything in English. I helped in class 3 (7 and 8 year olds). They had wooden benches and desks and blackboards along the front wall. They follow the New Zealand syllabus so what they teach is similar to English schools. At lunch time on Thursday we visited a teacher who was ill- he had been paralysed on [View Full Entry]

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Published: September 27th 2006 | 1089 Views | [diary=90320]

Smiling faces
The end of the day
The view from the window