In fact all the big hotels in Samoa are owned by families; even Aggie Grey’s in Apia harbour was started by a family. Beach fales are for everyone, you can book them online and they’re everywhere.

Well Samoa doesn’t specialise in five-star luxury ... boutique stays like Sinalei or traditional houses, known as beach fales. Plus the hotel does have luxury kudos to recommend it, having ...

Samoa's Marine Pollution Advisory Committee confirmed ... Neitina Malae, who hires fales — beach huts — to tourists and visitors, says their livelihood has also been impacted.

On Fridays, traditional Samoan bites follow the fiafia night ... where a collection of pastel thatch-roof fales, rentable for the day on the powdery south Upolu shores, provide a basecamp for ...

View along Lalomanu Beach of colourful Samoan beach fale huts used as tourist accommodation.Credit: Getty Images All is (almost) forgiven though because I have the best meal of the trip in the ...

Na fa'aalia i se ripoti so'otaga i le CFMEU ma fa'alapotopotoga solitulafono, atoa ai faiga fa'amalosi e sui o le Iuni i tagata faigaluega i galuega fau fale i le atunu'u.

Over-water fales. At Maninoa village we turn off the main road and head to Samoa’s hippest beach resort. Coconuts is owned by a former Beverly Hills lawyer, Barry Rose, who with his wife ...

In Samoa, churches spend millions building cathedrals to connect communities to God. But as debts and poverty skyrocket, many are questioning the price tag. The Baha'i temple in Samoa, one of many ...

Its spacious gardens, lush with flowers, surround pools, verandas and fales (upscale Samoan bungalows) named after such guests as Gary Cooper, Marlon Brando and James Michener. Cooper made one of ...

the researchers followed a Samoan framework of research called Fa’afaletui, which researchers from the University of Auckland translated as ‘‘‘ways of’ [fa’a] ‘weaving together’ [tui] deliberations of ...

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