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| Port: Pago Pago A Taste Of Village Life Experience life in a Samoan home; watch a traditional cooking demonstration using an umu or ground oven and enjoy the dishes prepared. WHAT YOU VISIT Traditional Samoan Village and Home - On the island?s southwest coast, your hosts invite you into their home. Enjoy traditional island music and watch a traditional cooking demonstration using the umu or ground oven. Afterwards, join your hosts and sample the cooked dishes. PHOTO OPPORTUNITIES "Flower Pot Rock" - The local landmark, Fatu-ma-Futi, guards the entrance to Pago Pago Bay. First Missionary Monument - The Reverend John Williams of the London Missionary Society landed near Leone with eight Tahitian acolytes in 1830. WHAT YOU SEE ALONG THE WAY From Pago Pago, drive southwest past a series of small bays and traditional villages. Each village prominently features an elevated fale - this oval shaped, open sided structure serves as the meeting house for the village council. You pass Nuuuli Village, Lava Lava - American Samoa?s golf course - and Fatu-ma-Futi or "Flowerpot Rock" on your way to Leone. SPECIAL NOTES Local buses are used for tour transportation. These small, colourful buses have padded bench seats but no microphones. Tour guides are generally drawn from the high school graduating class. They may lack in professional skills, but their local knowledge, willingness, friendliness, and enthusiasm deserves special merit. |
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