Living Like A Tongan | Vava'u | Kingdom of Tonga
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- One of the most cultural experiences of a lifetime. Drinking kava, cooking umu, attending church & enjoying Vava'u like a local!
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I work with a couple of Tongans and they are the most giving people I’ve ever met.
They are Angels on earth
I agree. I work with a bunch also
@@jayworship8365 oh well
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Yes Tongans are very giving people ❤
God Bless you bro,I'm a proud Tongan and to hear you speak so highly of our little Island, our people, our culture, that you experienced there really touched me.
I'm so happy to hear that brother! It was a major blessing and pleasure to experience the culture in most of your little islands. Small islands big heart! Ofa atu
do tongan know indonesia?
@@ilhamsatriadarmawan meaning?
do tongan people know indonesia where is it?
@@ilhamsatriadarmawan yes
I love this. I'm not tongan but I have friends that are. These people are the most selfless people on this entire planet. Once they are family and you in a time of struggle they will come for you and help you survive and get through hard times.
+James Anderson I couldn't agree with you more. Selfless heart felt human beings on the planet. They came to help when I was hitchhiking to a place to stay and be family with them. Super blessed! hope you get to visit Tonga someday
I’m Samoan but Toga looks amazing and I’d definitely visit my family there. TOKOUSO✊🏾
It's amazing brother! Should make a trip out there.
Yes! This home is just as much as your home! 🏝💕 I’d love to visit Samoa just as much!
Aww thanks for this video! my soon to be husband is from Vava'u and I saw my mother in laws house in your video! I love vava'u!
Love Tonga,it's jst like my homeland fiji..Love from new Zealand.
Kia Ora / Bula brother! :D
@@aperezvoyages kia ora bro...vinaka
The fact that you took the time to pronounce the tongan words properly and live the actual Tongan life is awesome bro you are amazing. Thanks for shedding light onto our beautiful island of Vava’u ❤️
Malo aupito brother! An absolute pleasure. Tongan people treated me very well in Tonga! 💙
Beautiful country love from africans
I met Anthony Perez outside a restaurant called Mango in Vava’u. One of the most coolest and humblest guys I know. Glad to have met this guy in September 2018
Ah man! What a pleasure! I enjoyed our chat and the company bro! We had met just right before I was going to set sail to Fiji. The guy I was with was the captain! Hope all is well with you bro! Ofa atu!
Anthony Perez we ought to catch up next time you’re in NZ. Ofa atu God bless
Would be awesome brotha! Let me know if you happen to find your way to Hawai’i! 🤙🏽
Anthony Perez I’ll start saving up now
@@jimpaea5473 did you save up enough?
i stayed on Vava'u for a week a few years back. the sounds in your video took me straight back. roosters crowing, pigs snorting and singing in church. i fell in love with the people and the place. a great warmth and sense of community, always inviting.
Thank you Anthony Perez for your wonderful video. As an australian born and raised tongan with Vava'u roots it is so heartwarming to see you embracing our culture, living amongst the locals and having an authentic tongan experience. Thank you for showing my people in a positive and refreshing light. God Bless !
+MzVavau08 Malo aupito for the beautiful words! It was a huge pleasure diving into your culture. 😊😊
Bula....malo.....i luv diz video.... i haven't been to Tonga but i wish one day ill visit my roots.....proud Tongan born and breed in Fiji.....😊😊
Bula BULA!!!🤙🏽 Just one flight away straight to Vava’u braddah!
I really enjoyed watching your video. A have several friends that are Tongan. They are very kind.
Many years have passed since my last visit to this wonderful country. I used to fly from W. Samoa to Nuku'alofa after having travelled the length and breadth of the South Pacific for up to 8 weeks at a time. Tonga became my favourite place and I'm sorry I never seriously explored the possibility of living there permanently.
Hey man! So nice to hear your history of these island gems. It's one of my favorites also! Not sure what your current living circumstances are now, butttt...always still an option to make it your home :D
Noel Stone I think you will, had you stopover in Vavau, the most beautiful group of islands in the Pacific
Thank you for sharing your experience in Tonga. Remarkable
A blessing my friend 🙏🏼🤙🏼
Nice one Anthony Perez, great video!!
Thank you for showing our culture & traditions so respectfully and with pride. Much appreciated toko!
The thing I liked about watching your video is how authentic you wanted your experience to be. You get people flying across the world heading to the pacific just to stay in a fancy resort/hotel like really what’s the point. Only giving yourself half the experience, be surprised how welcoming a lot of the Pacific Islanders are to people who want to experience and learn the culture.
Big thumbs up from me definitely watching more of your videos. Ofa atu toko ♥️♥️
Malo aupito for the awesome comment my good friend ! That concept is what drives me to visit places and it’s peoples. Was a pleasure to extend that heart to Tonga. 🤙🏼🙏🏼💙ofa atu
nice nice , island people alway love and care for Each other and love food , now i miss my island
Hope you get to go back sometime soon 🤙🏽🌺🇹🇴
Makes me miss my home FIJI. It’s so similar the kava/grog & how they clap twice before hand.. the vegetation ..the language.. it’s very very similar
+FIJI BATI ISLANDER ahh man then you'll love my Fiji version of this video. th-cam.com/video/qS8spKx6TgI/w-d-xo.html this took place two weeks after I left tonga!
You actually took pictures behind our home in Vava'u! That dirt road in okoa to little okoa is behind our home! Blessings!
Ah man, small Vava'u
God bless you toko. Thank you for visiting our small kingdom .🙏
I wish I could speak tongan... I know some they mean az..big hearts
Absolutely agree braddah! I work with a few here and gonna come together on a video. 😃
It's just like the lifestyle in countryside here in the philippines😊😊
Wow. It looks beautiful! We thank the Lord for this beautiful video because it gives us more of where our great 4× grandfather William Mariner was staying with Finau'ulukalala and Melenaite. But we are Samoans part Tongan and English. God is good! God bless Tonga.
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ thank you for the beautiful comment! ❤️❤️❤️❤️🇹🇴
Awww, HOME!! Both my parents are from Vava'u. Seeing the small glimpses of the roads in this video is making me homesick. Thank you for sharing! 'Ofas!
An absolute pleasure :D
Can’t stop crying cos of my massive homesickness from watching this 😭 I’m happy you enjoyed your time in Vava’u, thank you for appreciating it!!! God bless 😄
+Ameh Was a pleasure 😊🙏🏾 Do you plan on going back any time soon?
If that much homesick why did you leave?
Good on you Anthony. This is my root island and I'm proud to be a Vavauan lol.. highly recommended video of the island I've ever watched on you tube. 💗💕💗
+Florist Peni What a blessing it is to show your beautiful island it's people and overall Tongan culture. 💙💙💙
Salam Dari kami Indonesia 🇲🇨
Untuk Tonga
I want to visit there. It’s beautiful 😍
Yelirosa Gora you should ☺️☺️☺️
@ Yelirosa Gora, put down ‘To’e mei moana’ on TH-cam you can see a bit of Vavau from the air it’s beautiful
Just came back from here. And I lived like a local. Such an amazing experience. Growing up here in America it’s very different and it’s made me realize how blessed I am. I loved the lookout!! The water was amazing!!! The beach are beautiful!! The bridge was so much fun. I hated walking up the millions of stairs for the hike but didn’t regret it because the view was worth it. I miss my family there. My dad grew up there and has over 100 acres of land. And it was a blessing to go back and see where my father grew up. One thing I will say though, I do not miss that bell. It went off at the most random times. But I did love the singing. They would sing late hours into the night. It was amazing. Also, I don’t miss those annoying rosters. I almost strangled one. Haha!! Love my culture. So happy I went home for a little bit. I plan to come back soon!!!
+Tiana Vakaafi This comment made my day! So awesome you had the opportunity to live such an experience! Even moreso that you have family ties and roots to the land, give you even deeper of a perspective of your family tree. So awesome! You're absolutely right about the morning drums and damn roosters. But the sound of the church singing was bliss despite struggling to sleep well hehe. Where abouts in the states do you resist now? How was that roundtrip flight ?
Anthony Perez I’m in Utah. So the ride home was.... ehhhh long. 😂 we left vavau a couple days before our flight because we had to take the boat back and it only comes every other day I guess. That was hard. Saying goodbye to my family was hard. We all cried a lot haha. Anyway, we headed back to the main Island where we stayed for two days before getting on the plain back to Fiji. And then Fiji to San Francisco. And finally San Francisco to SLC. Tiring trip but we all made it home. And have been home now for 2 weeks! :)
Yea i figured that trip was hella long. But worth the journey. They have non stop flights from vava'u to Fiji but not sure how frequent they are. And yea the boat service in Tonga is not the most reliable. I had to book a flight to Vava'u because they send their fast boat to Fiji for maintenance. Come to find out a few weeks later, they repainted the boat to their rugby teams color. Haha. Anywho, glad you're back and settled. I'm sure the time spend allowed you to live and see things in a new light. Tongans are the kindest hearts ever, proud of their culture, their land, and best of all the best sense of community. Hope you have a chance to revisit someday! :D
Nice video! Will eventually visit Tonga one day and experience the life of my ancestors and immerse myself amongst the land they held sacred.
Malo apito!
+Bing Bong Bang Bung Beng you will love it. It's so pure !
My parents took our family from the USA and raised us in Vava’u where they are from. We eventually returned to the USA but I will never forget those formative years in Vava’u. Awesome video!
+R Wolf wow that's amazing man! I'm sure you've gotten real perspective of proper positive ways to live as a unit in those villages! :)
Im really late for this video but its amazing 😍. Vava’u my home Island even though I reside in NZ. Thank you for speaking so positively about Vava’u Lahi ❤️💯
+Love Lee An absolute pleasure my dear friend! Never too late by the way! Malo aupito! 💙where in New Zealand are you by the way?
Anthony Perez you’re amazing. Im in Auckland NZ but Vava’u is my home 😌. What was your favourite & best thing you experienced in Vava’u?
My Tongan friend said Tonga is very small. After seeing this vid I'm beginning to think he's never been there before🤔.
Haha well your Tongan friend isn't wrong. Tonga is actually very small with four islands groups. Check out the size perspective here www.mylifeelsewhere.com/country-size-comparison/california-usa/tonga
Compare to where he’s from it prolly is lol
This Island is Beautiful...
Thank you for this video! I'm from Vava'u but live overseas & I miss everything about it from the views to the food to the people
+Island Gal I hope you get a chance to visit some time soon! I miss the kind people 💙
This makes me appreciate & love my culture even more when I see you & other people appreciate the Tongan lifestyle. Also Kape (giant taro) Vava’u is the best! I love Vava’u.
+Akosita Otumuli What a pleasure brother! 😁
Love the Taovala and tupenu bro. Thanks for being part and accepting our culture and traditions.
Was a blessing and pleasure braddah! Love everything about Tongan culture 😁
I love Tonga kingdom
Thx man for the tour and I'm also proud to be togan I'm searching for more details about my island and u helped me alot thx
So glad you enjoyed a virtual trip back to your roots brother :D
Im from vavau...i haven't been there ...i grew up here in Fiji island..and i just want to say ......thank you so much for sharing the video ..what a beautiful island lovely people and careabout others and lovely food very peaceful...lovely.. you are awesome brother ...thank you 👍👍👍❤
Bula brother! Thank you so much for your kind words. I'll have to say the same for Fiji people. Fijians are true and honest at heart and It left a lasting impression after I left Fiji. :D
This reminds me of back home in the Caribbean. It is so much similar to what we do there!
Reminds me of my Caribbean roots as well (Dominican Rep. & Puerto Rico)
Yea which island you from?
St Vincent
Nice ilands and friendly people! God Bless.......
Love these videos man, so authentic and real. Thank you toko!❤️
+say1ess I appreciate that brother! All I hope to share is culture, beauty, and authenticity! 😊 aloha/ ofa atu
+say1ess I appreciate that brother! All I hope to share is culture, beauty, and authenticity! 😊 aloha/ ofa atu
+say1ess I appreciate that brother! All I hope to share is culture, beauty, and authenticity! 😊 aloha/ ofa atu
+say1ess I appreciate that brother! All I hope to share is culture, beauty, and authenticity! 😊 aloha/ ofa atu
Nice video much appreciated, all the best in your travels.
W Percival New Zealand Gardenia Band 🇨🇰 Kia Orana
Tonga is awesome was there in 2006. Beautiful place good people
Siasi Tonga kiai hahaha love the church singing my brada!!! Thank you for the upload of our beautiful small island!!
An absolute pleasure braddah! 🤙🏼 🌴🥥🇹🇴
Was nervous for my 1st trip in April, this raw content only encourages me to embrace my own experience and the love I already have for the Tongan People! Much Mahalos and Alohas!
Mahalos braddah! Happy that can share more depth into Tongan culture! Tongans are the kindest people ever! Assuming you mean you’re going in April this year, you’re going to love it and not want to come back. Will give some perspective in life for sure. 🤙🏽 aloha/ofa atu
Kahelelani they still let you travel during pandemic?
Make me miss my home thank you for the lovely video kasimi and salieri they are my mate from high school good to see them. Ofa atu
+dah hala That’s awesome my friend! They are the absolute best and was a blessing to have met them and spent time with them! Ofa atu!
Thank you so much for such heart warming video of my homeland ! I truly appreciate that you have lean, understand and appreciate our culture. I am half Tongan and lived in Tonga for 5 years and my time in Tonga was highlight of my life. Unforgettable memories and experienced I will treasure forever xx
An absolute pleasure my friend! Was one of the greatest opportunities 💙
Home sweet home Vavau Lahi!!! Missing everything about it big time. Malo Aupito for sharing 🙏🙏🙏 I’m all the way in Phoenix Arizona now.
As you can see all the comments here are loving and positive 💖
Thank you for uploading and sharing the world our beautiful lil island of Tonga
Respect to you Sir
Was a pleasure to share the world of Tonga through the lens of my camera and eyes. ❤️🇹🇴
God bless you brother,Vavau is so beautiful it's my father's island, I have the most fondest memories of Vavau in my childhood holiday's there,it is truly different to the main island, you must experience the place in person to know and truly feel the love and caring and giving regardless who you are. Thankyou for sharing our culture to the world bless you
So proud of you sending love from New Zealand ❤
+P.E. Amueli thank you 😁Aloha from Hawai'i! 🌺
@@aperezvoyages ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Unrelated but if that's your pic, your wingliner is on point!
@@infinite6163 yes my pic lol thanks
What's a wingliner? If u talking about wigs I don't wear wigs this all my own hair ,😂
Ysss need more of the islands!!!! Thank you so much for this
+Anthony Trang My pleasure bro! Check out my other pacific island playlists. I have New Zealand, Fiji, Nauru, Kiribati , and Tuvalu posted on my channel. Still working on some more of Kiribati and the Marshall Islands
Thank you for bringing back memories I live out here in the states now but I miss my homeland thank you and God bless you
An absolute pleasure! Hope you get to go back sometime 🤙🏽😊 ofa atu
Wow it is nice to see a Hispanic I believe you are, visit Tonga its usually palangi that visit and blog the Islands of Tonga. I appreciate these videos because it's the closest I can get to the land of my roots ofa atu bro
Haha Puerto Rican & Dominican that is (from New York). Super blessed to have had the opportunity to see first hand how kind spirited Tongan people are. Ofa atu brother!
@@aperezvoyages I knew you were pr from New York I heard it in your accent. I really enjoyed all your videos in Tonga thanks again
as soon i saw your face i was ummm wtf this man look dominican to me😂
Yep! Platano right over here 🙆🏽♂️
@@aperezvoyages your Caribbean so it means your an islander yourself
Love your videos Anthony!👍
Thank you 😁
thats the type of life i wish i had
Love Tonga
Proud of being Tonga ❤️❤️❤️🇹🇴
OMG! So lit! My family are going to move there soon. Thank you for sharing your experience!
What a place to live. Beautiful community on a beautiful island 😀
Why you move to tonga?
@@littleroots because no more paying bills there 😂😂😂
Thanks no words but really appreciate your video. Ofa atu
Loved your piece , brother hope to make it there one day
Amazing man!
You've earned another sub bro, what an amazing journey you've set upon !!
+Špárkłé Wátérmęłøñ thanks so much my friend :)
I love! Thank you for sharing ❤️
My pleasure :D
Cool🇹🇱😘🇹🇴
Great video! Thank you for sharing your experience in Tonga with us😊👍🏽
A pleasure 🙏🏼🇹🇴
Greeting, Cousins!
After much studyng history I am increasingly convinced that we are actually distant relatives, because our ancestor are the same, namely the Astronesian Nation.
Nice story telling A! Gonna follow your journey from now on
Thanks bro🤙🏽
Thanks for sharing our video 🙏🏽🇹🇴🇹🇴
+Sosaia L Ngata ofa atu brother! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🇹🇴
Your pronounciation is on point! Great video btw.
Thank you braddah! Sending aloha from oahu! 🤙🏽🌺 Happy 2020
Friendly island Tonga 🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️bless you on your journey 🤜🏽🤛🏽
Thank you 🙏🏼🤙🏼
Just WOW. THANK YOU SO MUCH for shinning light and letting others around see the small Kingdom of Tonga, even more, you got to experience the life of a small humble family.
This is the norm growing up in Tonga. I myself was born and raised in New Zealand and had been sent to Tonga for 3 years, and boy, do I dare say has impacted my life in so much ways to be able to understand what it means to live with nothing and appreciate EVERYTHING. To learn what it means to come from a humble home and embrace true happiness (non-materialistic things).
I will never forget my time back in Tonga and therefore seeing this, I humbly appreciate that you are able to share this with the world Anthony. I STILL HAVE SO MANY QUESTIONS THOUGH lol Like how did you get in touch with your host family in Tonga seeing that it was your first time in Tonga? I think this would be perfect for another video - Q&A's because as I said, I got many and I'm sure my Tongan brothers and sisters do too lol
You have gained a subscriber and a sister dear Anthony! with my utmost respects, I tip my hat off to you!
Ofa atu brother
Malo e lelei! If this ain’t the most damn awesome comment ever! You make a good point and recommendation for a q&a style video. I actually might consider doing that!
You’re three years to my month in Tonga yet still, that month changed my life entirely and also molded to become a better person. It was the first of a number of other pacific islands I’ve been to on that trip. I think I said in the video, if the world and it’s people modeled it’s values in life and how we love our community and work together, it would literally be the answer to world peace! Thank you so much for watching and taking the time to write this beautiful heart felt comment. It’s comments like these that make me happy to see my true desire for how I travel, gets transcribed into a TH-cam video and hopefully reaches peoples hearts(hope that made sense).
Thank you again for your words and glad it’s brought so much joy to you and your Tongan heart! 💙
Ofa atu💙
Anthony Perez My notifications aren’t on so best believe i’ll be checking in for a new video 🥰
I definitely feel you! it is no exaggeration when we say to visit these places because they really do change the mentality of many because it really strips you of all the materialistic things and show pure joy and happiness from showing compassion and love.
The core values of a Tongan is divided into 4:
1. Fakaapaapa: Respect
2. Loto tō: Humility
3. Mamahi Me’a: Strong desire to make it happen
4. Tauhi Va: Maintain good relationship with others
As I mentioned, I am humbly grateful to see that your selfless voyage shows the life of a nation that don’t have much in terms of materialistic things but I can assure you that we have an abundance of love and gratitude to always help others even if they don’t even ask.
Bless your heart for being able to showcase this and may goodness, kindness and success always find you wherever you may be on the maps of the world.
I look forward to see more of your journey in the future
ps. Definitely let me know or anyone you know who is going to travel to Tonga so that we may host you! I know people too who are also willing to open their humble homes to you all.
Ofa atu ❤️
So nice to hear your experience. Many blessings to you bradda.
+Mark Estrella tank you brah 🤙🏾
Awesome❤
Love it 👌🏽💯🇹🇴
Vavau best place in the world my family germman tongans have lived in vavau since the 1850s guttenbeil wolfgramms and are still there today i miss vavau
My wife is from there so been there a few times. It's been a while though and I really miss it. Great blog bro.
+filiandsela tonga is such a special place! :) hope you get to revisit sometime soon! 😊
Beautiful Vavau..
Thanks for vid.That the life living in Tonga it normal.
Good video. Thanks for sharing
Gorgeous
This makes me miss Vava’u 😭 Good to see you Kasimi and the rest of the family ❣️
They are the absolute best 💙💙💙💙💙 Hope you can make it back!
My Island!! My dads childhood home is the house right across from the Pua hotel! With the mango tree! That’s amazing!
awesome 👏
+Aloitalau 川さきKawasaki 🙏🏾💙
amazing!!!
+Average Vita thank you brother!
Man this makes miss the islands hella bad!!!! Thanks for sharing toko!!! Ofa atu!!!
Glad you bring you back bro! 🤙🏽😊 ofa atu
Awesome
This is a place I would love to visit
why i saw this late… hehe worth it. will be my free time snack again, watching your videos boss..
allllriighhtttt :D
Bless your soul mates watta good video missing my fam back in Vava’u malo aupito🇹🇴
+Tupou Tangi Malo aupito for the kind words dear brother! Ofa atu 🙏🏾
Ofa atu malo
J'adore les musiques et les vidéos gospel manifique chant sa touche les paroles que dieu continue à les béni😘😘😘😘😘
It's beautiful. I wanna go there after I will get to Tongatapu in Tonga someday!❤🌴🌺🌊🐚🍌🍍🤙
Yes you will 😎
Dreamland..! I loe it
+amrani amr ☺️🙏🏾
Ofa atu brother much love ❤ from Tongan Island 🏝
This video got me homesick😞😞malo toko
+TOnGa G 🇹🇴❤️🇹🇴❤️😍
home sick more like hungry for 🐴😂😂😂
@@o.l6733 😂😂 you know the drill😂
what drill??lol
@@o.l6733 😂😂😂
I like how you focus on the island itself and on the people of island. Less tourist-y, less showboating. This perspective is way more interesting and informative.
3:46 Look at that still!! It's like something you'd see in a magazine.
Aww, the ladies with hats in the church. So cute!
I appreciate that. My style and focus on TH-cam is different than what’s out there. Glad that it’s appreciated and enjoyable! 💙🤙🏽🌺
@@aperezvoyages Aww, no problem! It's a lot more of a realistic POV. Idc for all those pictures of rich people sunbathing in an infinity pool on an island. It's such a selfish perspective. So, your videos have unique take. Thanks for sharing them with us and allowing us vicariously to get to know these islands and the islanders!
Love this comment! I completely agree with you 🤙🏽 malo aupito/mahalo nui/ thanks so much!