Our week at Safua Hotel on the island of Savaii is one most of us will never forget. We spent our time there learning about Samoan culture, and discovering the rest of the island via natural and cultural history tours with Warren Jopling, a wonderful Australian geologist who has been living in Samoa for over 25 years.
Some of these trips included lava fields from an early 1900’s volcanic eruption, and a village that was covered in lava during that same eruption. We visited a rain forest where Samoan flying foxes can still be found. One day included a visit to a waterfall and freshwater river, while another included stops by lava-formed blowholes, and the new market in Salelologa, built with Japanese development aid.
Thursday we spent the entire day at Safua Hotel learning about Samoan culture. Many of us were able to try our hand at basket weaving, cocoa roasting, coconut husking, and tapa making.
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