Savaii Day 5 - Safua Hotel

Today was packed. And I’m exhausted. And hot. Always hot…don’t like it.

We started off our tours today by hiking to this volcanic rock structure built like 900 some years ago I think. It was huge, and kinda shaped like a pyramid but with a flat top. They don’t know why it was built – probly some religious temple or something. It poured rain there, but that was refreshing cuz it was so hot.

After that we hiked over to a waterfall, where we swam and had lunch. The place was gorgeous, even tho the waterfall wasn’t running cuz it hadn’t rained much. The water was so clear you could see all the way to the bottom – like 30 or 40 feet down. Incredibly pretty. And in the middle of the rainforest. How cool. It poured rain there too, but we didn’t care.

We then went to the 2nd larget volcano on the island and climbed to the top. It was like 200ft up total, but felt a lot higher than that. At the top of the crater, we could see the tops of tress in this rainforest that was growing in the middle of the crater. So cool. Saw some endangered endemic flying foxes there too.

Completely exhausted when we got back. Another fiafia practice, another good dinner, more relaxing after. Got some good pics from today. :)

Leah