#702 Alofaaga Blowholes, Savai'i, Samoa

On a spectacularly beautiful underpopulated coast in the middle of the Pacific Ocean are the very cool Alofaaga Blowholes. Though perhaps not as magnificent as other blowholes and possibly underwhelming if you were to come all this way, they are nevertheless an interesting feature of nature.

You could watch a coconut be tossed in only to fly up, perhaps a rouge wave will catch you by surprised and splash you from the cliffs behind you while you are waiting for the next wave to shoot the spray up at you. 

The Taga Blowholes, as they are also known, were created by lava flows which created tubes which were later eroded away.

http://www.samoa.travel/sightseeing/x19/alofaaga-blowholes

Source: Lonely Planet Samoa & Tonga 6th Edition 2009
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alofaaga_Blowholes

#747 Robert Louis Stevenson Museum, Samoa

In 1890 the Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson had this mansion built on the outskirts of Apia, Samoa in hopes that the tropical climate would help his tuberculosis, but he only lasted four years before dying here, but not before he was adopted by Samoans as a storyteller. With a beautiful lawn and gardens next to untamed tropical forest where Stevenson is buried, the house was partially destroyed in cyclones in the early 1990s, but was loving restored as a museum for the centenary of Stevenson's death.

A short tour leads past the antiques and family photos. Why so amazing? Such manicured carefully tended humble appreciation of literature does not really get celebrated much, but when it's one of the things to see in tiny Samoa, it is valued.

Source: Lonely Planet's Samoa & Tonga 6th Edition 2009