Photos from the Best Beaches of Samoa

The Samoan Archipelago lies shrouded in a light fragrant mist which is easily

penetrated by the blazing sun. Cool mountain breezes make things very comfortable

here during the southern winter months. Dormant volcanoes, deep forests and dazzling

lagoons are abundant.

The road around the island of Savai'i has only recently been paved. There are no

towns only little villages. It's a place where you don't feel the presence of the

twentieth century much. Lavalava-dressed people, roaming pigs and small tamu

plantations on the outskirts of the volcanic jungle clad interior is what I remember.

This is where I'd really like to be

Sundays in Samoa are quiet days. Early in the morning blue smoke drifts lazily

through the villages and everything is bathed in soft golden sunshine. Beautiful

singing is heard from all directions and the roads are swarming with women in

white lace dresses and fine hats and men dressed in newly ironed lavalavas, shirts

and ties.