Tongatapu, Tonga
The capital island is all-in-all not as cool as Vava’u. But hey, it ain’t bad and they got the awesome fried rice we mentioned in our last post, not to mention the royal estate.
And goats! Goats they’ve got.
Tonga’s 3rd Gender
Vava’u, Tonga
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So yes church. Any discussion of Tonga would be incomplete without church. Did you notice the flag? Go back and take a look. We’ll wait
Now what is the one identifiable symbol on the Tonga flag?
Yes, Tonga is a Christian nation.
Fine line between cute and slutty
Moorea, Society Islands, French Polynesia
(cont’d from previous post)
Finally, the Polynesian dance school also had a group of little girls, which were there either because they were in fact learning or just because they were ridiculously adorable.
How the heck do they get their hips to do that? It like they dislocate their spines from their pelvic bones or something. It boggles the mind!
One of the things we found interesting was just how young some of the kids who were learning the Tahitian dance were. One little girl was only five! It was something of a culture shock to see such young kids learning a dance with such sexual overtones to it! Interestingly enough, we did not find ourselves completely repulsed like we are when we seen pre-teens in the States wearing push up bras or hip hugging skin tight jeans. So what was the basis for the difference? Continue reading “Fine line between cute and slutty”