We had a week holiday this past week so we (the Sams and I)
went on vacay to the island group Ha’apai in Tonga. It was absolutely
beautiful. It is hard to put the beauty of Ha’apai into words.
We started our voyage to Ha’apai at 4am Tuesday morning,
taking the boat from ‘Eua to Tongatapu. After a quick stroll and an ice cream
cone we got on an 18 passenger plane to Ha’apai and 45 minutes above the
pacific ocean we were there. We got the privilege to stay with a Tongan family.
They took such good care of us.
We spent a lot of our time there on the sandy beaches. One
day we asked a man to take us to a small island on his fishing boat. It was
about a 30 minute ride to the island of Uoleva. It was unreal. There are no
villages in Uoleva, but there are a couple of resort like places. We played on
the beach there and swam for a while before heading back to the main island.
The best part of Ha’apai was the large variety of fish. The
fish was soooooo good! We ate it raw, fried, and cooked in coconut milk almost
every night!
There aren’t currently any PCVs in Ha’apai because there was
a very devastating cyclone that hit Ha’apai a little over a year ago. There was
a lot of rebuilding still happening while we were there, but the impact of the
cyclone was still very visable. There were a lot of house frames with no roofs/
windows, broken trees, and people living in Red Cross tents.
Such a happy experience and just the R&R we needed. Y’all
need to go!
‘Ofa atu!
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