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TONGA | Sunday, 23 June 2013 | Views [541] | View Larger Image

A lot of pride is taken in Tongan graves in cemeteries. Each grave is colourful and covered in wreaths, flowers and coloured tapa cloth gathered from tapa plantations and made by locals.

A very religious country, all the money goes back into the Churches. They would have to be the most beautiful buildings on the islands – colourful and maintained. Sunday is the day of God – the streets are eerily quiet except for the harmonies of the hymns coming from the Churches echoing through the distance.

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Many rural Tongan’s rely on plantation and agriculture (such as banana’s, vanilla beans and coconut) to sell at markets for as little as 20c. As we were driving we found this man walking along the side of the road – our taxi driver stopped and asked him if he would climb a coconut tree and fetch some coconuts so we could experience fresh milk from the shell.

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