Off to beautiful Savai'i

Alarm went off at 5:30am today to head to Savaii the other large Island here in Samoa. So after packing we hung up our wet clothes we had washed yesterday that had failed to dry completely over the backs of the seats in our car and drove to the Ferry terminal in Mulifan, 1 hour away.

Day fales

It was nice to be up bright and early so we could make the most of our day and make it to Savaii at a reasonable hour to have a look around before finding somewhere to stay.

Coastal road

So after a quick snack for breakfast we drove straight onto the Ferry and found some seats upstairs. The Ferry journey was comfortable and not too long, just 1 hour and as soon as we arrived in Savaii the sun was there to meet us and we had a nice slow drive to Lano as the speed

Chris and Neil

limit is just 40kmph but at least it meant we could enjoy the views along the way. We chose to stay in Lauiula Beach Fales as it had a nice open restaurant with a lot of breeze going through and also had the traditional Samoan Fales to sleep in.

View from our fale

These are all open with shutters all around that you can either leave up or down when you are sleeping and when open give fantastic views of the sea, beach and Sunrise in the morning.

Neil

But as they are so open, security of any valuables is an obvious issue but luckily we had our car that we could lock anything

Big bowl of 'ava for the 3 of us

valuable up in. So after a tasty Chicken curry for lunch the 3 of us all went for a snorkel for an hour or so before having a relaxing afternoon and evening. After dinner we decided to buy some ‘ava which is the same as kava just spelt differently and as there were other people staying here as well we chose to get 2 bags so we could share it around. But typically as we had gotten so much the others didn’t like it so we had a huge bowl all to ourselves which was a struggle to drink and kept all of us up at night needing to use the toilet. A good night though.

Off to beautiful Savai'i

Mulifanua, Samoa