http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Samoa/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Samoa en-us Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:43:45 BST Sat, 11 Oct 2008 08:43:45 BST Die Zeit fliegtViel gibt es nicht zu erzhlen. Das Paradies ist nicht sehr vielseitig. Nachdem ich die erste Insel erkundet hatte bin mit der Fhre zur anderen Insel gefahren. Nach einer Stunde war ich dann auf Savaii. Der erste Eindruch war dass es hier noch ruhiger ist als auf Upolu. Im Norden der Insel habe ich mich in eine Fale eingebucht und habe von dort aus die Insel erkundet. Sehr schn http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-316583.html Feels like a long time since the last blog probably because it is...just been to lazy to do any major updating and the lack of fast internet doesn't help either.Most importantly the world trip has continued after the extended break in Australia I finally made it to Fiji and Samoa and there's been some important stuff happening for me personally. Where to start Fiji was pretty lovely we had http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-314515.html I know yoursquove all heard our exciting news by now but I canrsquot write a Pacificlife blog and not include the story of a very Pacific engagement. I think we bombarded most of your inboxes with an account of the proposal already but we omitted most of the rest of the wonderful trip to American Samoa so I should add that in here. It was a surprise anniversary trip that Ed had planned http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Tutuila/blog-314062.html Es fing schon heiss an verdammt heiss sogar. Wir waren ja nun wieder einige hundert Kilometer naeher am Aequator. Von Samoa waren wir beide sofort begeistert. Naja um ehrlich zu sein waren wir damals schon begeistert dass der Boden nicht schaukelte. Das ist aber auch eine schoene Sache so ein ruhiger und stabiler Boden. Aber die zwei Inseln Samoas waren auch nicht uebel was wir in den naechst http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/blog-312687.html sorry forgot to send. whoopswe depart once again. tomorrow morning we sail to vanuatu... should be a 78 day journey. wish i had more time for the internet blogging and catching up with everyone but the computer access seems to be on 'island time' see fanning island and i could very well spend days on it if i really wanted too... another time. i hope all is well and good with everyone. and http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-311984.html enjoy the pictures... http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-311895.html It's been the better part of three weeks now since I left and had internet access... where do I begin Currently I am in Samoa home of the Samoan land of an island. I am enjoying a steady boat running water showers and environmental stimulation. No wait a minute. Let me backup... Journal entry July 26th DEPARTURE we set sail july 24th 830am from the hawaiian yacht club. after the s http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-311498.html Hi EveryoneHere are some of the photos from Samoa.... some very beautiful and some very interesting scenery. The weather was great. It did get hot in the afternoons but the ocean breeze was amazing. It was the 10th Festival of the Pacific Arts so a lot of different Pacific Islands were represented and I had the opportunity to see some pretty cool performances.Anyway Hope you all enjoy. http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Tutuila/blog-308662.html SamoaAus den paar Stunden ist dann nocheinml drei Nchte geworden. Ich hatte mich an dem Tag an dem ich fliegen sollte zum Flughafen begeben. Dort angekommen habe ich auf der Anzeigetafel meinen Flug gesucht und nicht gefunden. Als ich dann in meinen Unterlagen nachgeschaut habe hat mich der Schlag getroffen ich hatte meinen Flug verpasst. Nach dem der erste Schock vorbei war habe ich bei der http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-308499.html We didn't do a whole heck of a lot during our last week in Samoa but enjoy the water and the gorgeous scenery.P.S. Thought I should let everyone know our agenda from Samoa we go to Sydney for 3 days then on to Malaysia. No plans for how long we stay in Malaysia or anywhere after that but we plan to make it to Indonesia Vietnam Laos maybe Cambodia and Thailand again then India for winter a http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Lalomanu/blog-306945.html It's one of those traumatic childhood stories. We all have one. Moonlit graveyards sock eating monsters under the bed the Boogy Man fluffy bunny rabbits lumpy toads there is a spinetingling nemesis out there for everyone. Some are a bit more understandable than others such as my strapping 6 foot 3 Scottish friend who has an apprehension towards turkeys of the gobble gobble variety not http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-303851.html Sorry for the long wait between posts. We were on an island in Samoa with only ltgulpgt dial up. Samoa is like Hawaii but there's no dry side of the islands only green everywhere with lots of waterfalls. The villages have nicely painted houses and fales in all shades of the rainbow. The grass is kept trimmed and bordered by decorative plants and flowers. There's very little trash around http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-302972.html Coming through the arrivals on first landing was a pretty daunting experience not really knowing what to expect and then being confronted by huge black guys asking if i wanted a taxi luckly id booked ahead and had the hostel book me a transfer so didnt need to bother with the airport arrivals scrum. i stayed the first part of the trip in basically the only town in samoa which is also the capital http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/blog-297282.html Slumbering bedding down bunking catnapping zoning out catching forty winks and hitting the hay. Normal people call it sleeping a state of inactivity or unconsciousness. Somewhere between the hours of 8 p.m. and 8 a.m. individuals all over the world are sleeping and recharging their bodies and restless minds. Lucky them. I haven't completely slept through a night in several months for we http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-291048.html This was our second trip overseas and our first anniversary. We decided to see another Pacific Island since we got married in Fiji the year before. We booked everything on the internet from home and organised a 14 day trip taking us around Upolu and Savaii. The trip was with Green Turtle Tours and they took us everywhere. We were taken to different Fales for a couple of nights at a time and met s http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/blog-280359.html We had exceptionally high hopes for Samoa thanks to our poor weather in Fiji we arrived very late into the night to the end of a rain storm By the time we got a taxi from the airport to our hostel it was gone 1am in the morning. As we went to check in it became evident there was a problem we had actually got our dates wrong and were not booked until the following day. This is all due to cro http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/blog-280173.html We spent four days in Samoa staying at the Aggie Gray resort. The flight from NZ took 4 hrs and we arrived early 520am local time 420am NZ time Friday morning so we were tired when we got in.Aggie Grays Resort is very nice. The water is blue and warm and there is a lovely pool with a bar the foods good its well maintained and the staff are very friendly. On Friday night there was a c http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/blog-275947.html Samoa my last stop. I arrived on a Monday night which weirdly became Sunday night due to passing through the timeline just before landing. Having spent most of the original Monday on buses and planes it was good to have another Monday to do something more exciting and mosey around Apia the capital finding my bearings and seeing the sights. Went to see the house where Robert Louis Stevenson l http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Savai--i/blog-260845.html ......it's goodmorning to all in TonganHi guys thanks for still have a vested interest in the little going's on the Witherspoon's little epic journey.The latest entry reaches your laptop from the bedroom of our cosy bb in Nuku'alofa big smoke Tonga. Arrived here yesterday from the emerald islses of Samoa an hours flight but much to our confusion a 24 hour jump forward through the date line http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Savai--i/blog-246354.html Hello Julia here and a very belated Happy New Year to allI recently joined a local soccer team having been invited by a colleague who plays with a bunch of his former workmates from a previous job. Itrsquos 11 a side with a minimum of five girls on field at any time and we get to play on the fields from the South Pacific Games so the set up is pretty good. Irsquom the only palagi fore http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-245792.html Hi Guys......thanks for still being this interested. Since our last entry we have been on our whale watching tour. What a waste of money that was. It was quite possibly the worst boat trip ever due to the waves being at least 10ft high no joke There were so many people being sick that this one dork passed out and the US coast guard and paramedics had to come and meet us. Ayyy stupid dork meant http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-241603.html Apia Samoa January 26 2008 we docked in Apia the capital of Samoa and the only place you can really call a city. This is the first port since Tahiti that we were able to dock and didnrsquot have to tender in. It is warm but raining and showing no signs of letting up so I donrsquot know if I will go ashore or not. Wersquove been so luck so far with such good weather that I guess wersqu http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-239762.html Papeete Tahiti We spent a pleasant day in Tahiti visiting James Norman Hallrsquos home Point Venus which is the site where Capt. Cook recorded the passage of Venus across the face of the sun in 1769 a local market and later watched people congregating near the ship where vendors set up stands selling all kinds of food. James Norman Hall wrote the Mutiny on the Bounty series. We learned th http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-239756.html This was my first trip to Samoa and I was determined to make the most of it. I was rapidly realising that even though I lived in the Pacific visiting the many hundreds of islands in it within the next year was going to be tricky so every opportunity had to be grabbed by the horns so to speak. Samoa for me conjured up images of fierce warriors tribal tattoos and more recently a pretty decent http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-234685.html The islands of Samoa are emerging as an exciting new South Pacific travel destination between Hawaii and New Zealand. This Heart of Polynesia is politically split into two distinct entities 80 miles apart. The country Samoa is a former German colony captured by New Zealand in 1914 and granted independence in 1962. In 1997 the name was changed from Western Samoa to Samoa. American Samoa is the o http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/blog-230418.html 13.11.07Tine woke up reasonably early wonderfully refreshened. We succeeded in cooling our room to a comfortable temperature after we arrived and then we fell a sleep immediately. But one thing is a cooled room another is reality when you step out into the tropical heat and then in the rainy season. You could cut through the air it was so humid. Tine had a look around. Our room was just next http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/blog-224401.html This weekend I went to Ma'asina a village in Fagaloa Bay which is absolutely beautiful. There are no hotels or anything no restaurants just hospitable people. I love going there. When I go I take oso a small gift of some sort of food usually peanut butter cookies or lollies chips some kind of fruit that's easier to get in town like pineapple Milo kind of like ovaltine but tastes bette http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Ma--asina/blog-219127.html Even though we've been back a couple of weeks I thought I'd put a blog on to let everyone know what a great place and what a wonderful time we had in Samoa.We spent the first 3 nights at a place called Vigin Cove on the main island of Upolu we arrived in Samoa at midnight so had no idea what we were going to find till we awoke on our first morning and we weren't disapointed it was incredible as http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/blog-216647.html With your skulls blingYou make everythinghellipgroovyMeet our new 1993 ldquoSuzuki Sidekickrdquo a belittling model name for a car I know but this badass is no shrinking violet. We now cruise the streets of Apia with ferocious looking skulls lining both doors ldquoWild Thangrdquo plastered down the sides and the piece de resistance a diamantestudded dollar sign on the fro http://www.travelblog.org//Oceania/Samoa/Upolu/Apia/blog-211913.html