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Photos from Vava'u, Tonga, Oceania

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Misc. Pictures Around Vava'u, Tonga
Misc. Pictures Around Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Tongan Beach Resort, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Tongan Beach Resort, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Tongan Beach Resort, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Tongan Beach Resort, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Tongan Beach Resort, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Tongan Beach Resort, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – A Taste of Island Life, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – A Taste of Island Life, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – A Taste of Island Life, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – A Taste of Island Life, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – A Taste of Island Life, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – A Taste of Island Life, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Misc. Pictures Around Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Misc. Pictures Around Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Vanilla Bean Plantation, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Vanilla Bean Plantation, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Vanilla Bean Plantation, Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Misc. Pictures Around Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Misc. Pictures Around Vava'u, Tonga
Cultural Land Tour – Misc. Pictures Around Vava'u, Tonga
Weaving demo - weaving the Tapa
Weaving demo - stripping the bark
Weaving demo - here's one we prepared earlier
Weaving demo - A bunch of leaves is all that's needed
Weaving demo - ...and this is what the bark should look like
Vava'u - The three tour guides 'hanging out'
Vava'u - a line of palms marks the boundary between beach and grassland
Traditional dancing in Tonga - this one's called the left elbow dance
Traditional dancing in Tonga - the aptly named coconut shell dance
Traditional dancing in Tonga - not much dancing going on
Tonga - torrential down pour as the crowd scramble for shelter
Tonga - our cultural experience. More grass than beach
The Culinary demo - Waiting for the coals to heat up
The Culinary demo - preparing the bread fruit
The Culinary demo - Placing the wooden slats over the food
The Culinary demo - Covering the slats with more banana leaves
The Culinary demo - Carefully placing the food in the ground
The culinary demo - At least there is no danger of setting the smoke detector off
Kava ceremony - preparing the concoction
Chris and his mid morning snackette
Back at the quay a few of the tourguides compare notes
And so starts the Kava ceremony
Beach resort
Nice beach
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Resort jetty
Resort bungalows
White sand beach
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Brief history of Tonga
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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...more history

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