Were I in charge of their itinerary (or that of any tourist visiting Samoa, to be honest), I’d suggest they also make a trip to Vailima, Robert Louis Stevenson’s beautiful colonial-style house ...

Reporting from Apia, Samoa — Even in darkness, on the way from the airport, Samoa didn’t look like anywhere else I’d been in Polynesia — not like Rarotonga or Fiji, not like Tahiti or ...

Vailima beer will soon be brewed in Fiji as Samoa Breweries Ltd moves to close down operations in Samoa by the end of the year. Vailima - which is advertised as "The Taste of Samoa" - will now be ...

Samoa's beer might be staying in the country — but it is unclear when production will commence, or if workers will keep their jobs. Production of Samoan's national Vailima beer was due to head ...

VAILIMA, THE HOME OF STEVENSON. Share full article. LLEWELLA PIERCE CHURCHILL. Feb. 26, 1899; ... AT the deepest inward curve of the sweeping beach of the Bay of Apia, in the troubled land of ...

See also: Why this hole is one of the world's most incredible swimming pools But there were also tensions in Vailima. Louis Stevenson's stepson-in-law, Jo Strong, mentioned earlier, was not only ...

But Samoa’s climate hasn’t been kind to his writing. A set of first editions in the museum has almost perished. “The cockroaches got to the books,” says museum manager Lufilufi Rasmussen.

At the Galumoana Theatre Vaivase Uta in Samoa.(Supplied.She says its perhaps the first time, the workers voices of Villa Vailima are heard. "And really that's what we see in the play, is these ...

Ua le toe gaosia i Vaitele le Vailima, ae o le a gaosia e se kamupani i Fiti. O le a umia pea e le Kamupani le nofoaga i Vaitele e fai ma nofoaga autu e taunu'u iai le pia mai Fiti ma tufaina ai i ...

The Palace announced prior to the visit that the King and Queen would receive a formal welcome to Samoa – in the form of an ‘Ava Fa’atupu ceremony – before meeting Samoans at an engagement ...