This is a video we took of the Heilala week festival in the main island of Tonga, Tongatapu. I tried to find a video for you all of some people making tapa but I will have to load that next time.

Life in Tonga

Life in Tonga is very relaxed. We worked hard in our plantations for the food we eat and also the women especially spend a lot of time making craft, either to sell in the market or to give as gifts as the occasion arrives. My mother makes a cloth called tapa which is made from the bark of the paper mulberry tree. She pounds the strips of bark until the they are very this then glues them together, when the cloth is completed it is layed in the sun then painted with naturally made paint.also made with a substance from the same tree, the sap.

Introducing Me

Hi! My name is Tevita, I am from the islands of Tonga which is why I chose to make my Blog about the islands. I grew up in a village called Vaini, the best village in Tonga haha. we are known as the Vaini Doves because of our rugby team.