Beach Huts in Samoa

The traditional house in Samoa is a hut called a “fale.”  Fales generally are open-air (no walls) but with pillars (usually 8, sometimes more), and a thatched roof.  If they’re used for sleeping (as a bedroom), they may have some woven banana leaves for privacy and for sideways rain.  Often, a village’s (or family’s) main common room / living room fale is open air and it’s not uncommon to see a widescreen TV out for all to see (and steal, though this is not a problem in such a small community).

Here are two quick tours of fales that we stayed in while on the island of Savai’i in Samoa!

This is a fale at Regina’s on the north side of the island, by many awesome dive sites (Shoutout to Dive Savaii, a great dive shop!):

And here’s “Chalet Anne” at Lucia’s near Tofua Crater:

Turtles in Samoa

I'd seen turtles in the wild in Samoa from a boat (on the Namua post), as well as while scuba diving.  I also saw turtles in captivity, which I recently posted pictures about (on the underwater post).

The captive turtles seem somewhat legit - they're covered on the Samoa Tourism Authority website (here).

Here's some additonal reviews and mixed opinions on the turtles in captivity, on the TripAdvisor page.

Here are two videos of me with the turtles!  Enjoy!

Blowholes in Samoa

MS and I adventured out to the blowholes at Alofaaga, Samoa.  There were a couple of sections with multiple blowholes each, with this one being the most fun:

 

The picture above isn’t mine, but the source is the Samoa travel bureau.

It can be really entertaining to throw coconuts into the blowhole just before the blast of water – here’s a picture (not mine) and a couple videos (mine) below.

 
Photo source

MS tossing in a coconut and the result!

 

General entertainment through massive crashing waves!