I’m just back in Australia from two wonderful weeks in a country that doesn’t have a single traffic light, where pigs run around in the streets and where you can eat lobster for less than $ 10 USD. Welcome to the kingdom of Tonga.
Vava’u was our first stop in Tonga. Unfortunately, the hurricane Waka had hit Vava’u hard December 31 2001, and we found that many places had shut down (as they no longer had roofs or walls). But life goes on in this yachties paradise.
The island group of Ha’apai is only visited by a handful of tourists each year, and yet it has the beaches of travel posters and catalogues. This is a place where it easy to find kilometres with deserted, white, palm-fringed beaches, and absolutely impossible to find an Internet connection.
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Ikale is the beer of champions. At least, it is the beer of His Royal Highness Crown Prince Tupoato’a of Tonga. We were having a beer at the Billfish bar and restaurant in Nuku’alofa when we ran into Master Brewer Lennart Sätmark…
Christmas can’t be quite like Norway when you are spending it on a tiny Pacific island with temperatures around 30 degrees Celsius. Weird to be diving with sharks, moray eels, stonefish and lionfish in beautiful coral on Christmas Eve. This is what happened after Waya…
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The best way to spend your Star Alliance frequent flyer miles? 25.000 points for free travel between Australia and the South Pacific. Thanks to SAS and Air New Zealand December 2001 was spent travelling up the Yasawa island group in Fiji…
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