#apia

A dancer from Siva Afi Entertainment in Apia, Samoa, is wearing a taupou (ceremonial princess) headdress.

Siva Afi Entertainment stages a fia fia night and buffet dinner weekly on a stage behind the Government Building in central Apia, Samoa. The Polynesian dancing and fire knife shows are spectacular.

A freshwater spring feeds the Piula Cave Pool in an old lava tube east of Apia, Samoa. Swimmers can use a small underwater opening on the left near the back the first cave to enter a second cave.

A many-coloured fruit dove (manuma in Samoan) was seen in the forest reserve near the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Apia, Samoa.

This pool near the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Apia is said to have been a favorite of the author who spent his last five years in Samoa.

The lower slope of Mount Vaea next to the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Apia, Samoa, is a rainforest reserve. The trail to the top of Mount Vaea, where Stevenson and his wife Fanny are buried, begins here.

A pair of female attendants at the Robert Louis Stevenson Museum in Apia, Samoa, are amused by their device.

A replica of Robert Louis Stevenson's safe is displayed in the Great Hall of Villa Vailima in Apia, Samoa.