Samoa - an Introduction

We obviously couldn’t go back home from New Zealand without visiting one of the tropical islands of Polynesia. After hours and hours of researching, I chose Samoa, which was quite close and not so expensive. We spent 3 days on its biggest island Upolu and another 3 days on the smaller and wilder island Savai’i.

In this country, people speak Samoan and have their own currency Tala (and their paper money is colourful just like their nature). Samoa has population almost 200 000 and consists of two main islands - Upolu and Savai’i, and eight small islets. In case you don’t know, where this small, but beautiful country is, have a look here:

If you feel like reading about our adventures in Samoa, the country which inspired the writer Robert Louis Stevenson to write his Treasure Island, then go on here - Arrival and Apia.