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A cycling trip around Samoa's "big island", overnighting at some inexpensive and supremely relaxing beach resorts. |
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Handcrafted outrigger canoes, whitewashed churches, the occasional cricket pitch, beehive-shaped fales, the 45 minute drive from Samoa’s international airport to its South Seas capital is an excellent introduction to the very heart of traditional Polynesia. |
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While the great game has been played in idyllic Samoa for over 90 years, it’s only since the opening of two designer courses in the past few years that the tranquil South Pacific nation has become a golf destination of distinction. |
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On December 3, 1894, a “cloud of gloom” drifted over Samoa as Robert Louis Stevenson was laid to rest on a peaceful hillside outside of the quaint capital of Apia. |
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