TONGATAPU, TONGA
Today was my last day at Tonga, and I managed to get a taxi that would take me around the island – or so I thought. I started the day by reading a very nice note I got from the German girl I hanged with the day before. She left super early in the morning and left me a very nice note 🙂 Because it was my last day in Tonga I thought that I would buy my breakfast. I saw that they had something called Tongan Pancakes which sounded interesting, so I orded it. What I didn’t know that they where deep fried. Quite an unhealthy meal.. x) But I ate everything.. xP They were quite surprised I ate everything, but I told them that I eat what they give me ^^ When I was done I had around an hour before they were supposed to pick me up, so I decided to go to the local market one last time. When it was time to say goodbye to the people working at the hostel a got hugs and very nice words from them! During my days at the hostel (Villager Backpackers) they have been very nice to me! Greeting me by name every time they see me and always remember what I have done and asking me how it was. Felt sad to leave them. They have been very helpful, super friendly and very nice to talk to 🙂 Also nice that it seems that this hostel is totally run by women 💪
The tour started by checking out the palace and the tombs in Nuku’alofa before we headed out to Abel Tasman Landing Point. This was a nice view point of the northern part of the island. After this we continued to the Tsunami Rock. Fun story about this rock is that legend says that the demi-God Maui got angrily awakened of his father’s rooster, and that he tried to kill it. But it escaped from Eua to Tongatapu and Maui kept throwing rocks at it. Eventually he killed it with the largest one – this one 🙂
Later we went to the famous Blow Holes. This was amazing and you could see that the blow holes stretched out a long way alongside the coastline.
After this the taxi driver tells me that this was the west side tour and if I wanted to see the right side I needed to pay twice the money. I was a little surprised and told him that I didn’t have more much than TOP$150. After a little while of quiet driving he told me that he could stop at two more places on the east side, very nice of him! So we stopped at the place where Cook first entered Tonga. After this stop we drived to a cave called ‘Anahulu Cave. Didn’t expect that much (because I didn’t know anything about it). It costed around 62 sek to enter and it was well worth the money! It was amazing! 🤩 The cave was lit up by laps and water was dripping from the stalactites, giving an eco feeling as they hit the ground. For being very small to enter (needed to crouch – maybe I’m just tall? ^^) it was big inside. By following a path up and down I found a fresh water pool in the end. The water was super clear! And I would love to swim if it wasn’t for the flight in the evening I would do it, without any hesitation! It would be perfect if I was with someone and one person could light up the water with a flashlight while the other person snorkelled. I was quite happy anyway, to just dip my feet and look at the reflections from the dimmed lights dancing on the cave’s walls as the water surface was moving 🙂
After the cave I walked to the nearby beach and said a proper goodbye to Tonga 🙂 Because the tour was not as I expected, I arrived at the airport long before my plane was supposed to departure. I sat down, looked at people and read my book. When it was time to check in I met a Swiss guy that gave me nice tips about Fiji’s main island. Later on the plane, he randomly ended up in Business class and I was the seat behind to the left and he kept handing wine back to me from business class 😎 I think the older lady beside me was VERY jealous! 😆
