Nuku’alofa, Tonga – Friday, 12 October to Monday 15 October, 2001
Market in Nuku'alofaThe Kingdom of Tonga feels very "foreign". Nuku'alofa feels a little like La Paz in Mexico, with a wide boulevard stretching the length of the waterfront, except everything is in English instead of Spanish. Tonga feels more like a foreign country than anywhere we have traveled so far in the South Pacific. Paul Therioux in The Happy Isles of Oceania says that "Tonga is itself" and this seems true. The people are big...