Angela and Junior by junge1

Photography • People • posted on Feb 01, 2018

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Junior was my taxi driver and Angela is his wife. Junior told me that his great-grand father was German and one can see in his features that he is not a full-blooded Samoan, Angela is. On the second day at Matareve a young Dutch couple showed up. She is a teacher and had just come from Indonesia and her boyfriend was a computer engineer and had come from Holland so they could spend some time together. She had been in Samoa before for several weeks and had stayed with a local family at the time. They had rented a taxi to visit her host family and when I told them that I couldn't get a car they suggested that I talk to their taxi driver which was very nice and had reasonable rates. So the next morning when they got picked up I talked to the driver (Junior) and his wife Angela and we agreed on a rate and the following morning they picked me up end showed me part of the island. i realized that this was the better way than driving my own car, I would have missed a lot of sights they showed me and provided a lot of information. I realized how remote this place is by what I saw. It probably will never be a main tourist attraction because of its remoteness. I knew the place was in the South Pacific and I had been Australia and new Zealand before, but those are big countries, this is just speck in the Ocean. To understand how remote this place is I will include some distances to known location, i.e. distance in kilometers and approximate direction: Apia, Upolu Island, Samoa to: Tonga - 892 km SSW Fiji - 1,170 km WSW Tahiti - 2,423 km ESE Honolulu - 4,191 km NNE Guam - 5,663 km NW Sydney - 4,336 km SW Auckland - 2,885 km SSW Singapore - 9,437 km WNW Tokyo - 7,504 km NW Phoenix - 8,214 km NE London- 15,751 km ENE Berlin - 15,681 km WNW Capetown - 14, 585 km WSW Buenos Aires - 11, 160 km ESE Panama - 10, 477 km ENE New York - 11,645 NE San Francisco - 7,701 km NE Bali - 7,962 km W Manila - 8,043 km NW Peking - 9,501 km NW New Delhi- 12,766 km NW Abu Dhabi - 15,043 km WNW Rapa NUI (Easter Island) - 6,598 km ESE This picture was taken on 31 December 2017, Sig..