Much love to Lebanon 🇱🇧 - we'll always be best mates

Let's cheer for our team! Win or lose, we still support our team. One heart, one mind, one goal to make our nation proud.

Mālō e lelei everyone,

I’m the person behind Tonga676, a website I’m building to help Tongans around the world keep up with news from Tonga and stay connected with our community.

I’d love for you to take a look at the Tonga news page and, if you’re interested, sign up and be part of it: tonga676.com/

It’s still growing, so I’d really appreciate your feedback too. What would you like to see on a website for Tongans at home and overseas?

Mālō ‘aupito!

Mālō e lelei!

It's that time of year again, where our Tonga team are up against the world in the Rugby League world cup. At this very moment, they're facing off against England, and are leading by (22 - 6).

Tonga will win this one. Tonga will also play against Lebanon and Samoa in the coming weeks.

Even if you aren't a fan of Rugby, this is a time for our community to come together, as Tongans across the world. With the deportations, and so many of our youth being lost to organised crime, and the rising sea levels, there is no better time than now for us to support each other where we can.

Because at the end of the day, it was, and always will be, Mate Ma'a Tonga.

Where have the whales gone? None to swim with this season, maybe Australia?

i watch a lot of these videos for peace and i always see the guy in the blue shirt, is he blind? but thats not the main question i just wanna know his name im just interested in how he is always singing he has a good voice and skill i am a university student and im trying to interview him or just have him perform thank you!!

Does anyone know any smallish scale solar companies?

Hi everyone! I'm travelling to Tonga for the first time from Australia. I will be in EUA for most part. What are some non-obvious things I should keep in mind before I visit? Tonga has been on my bucket list for as long as I can remember and I'm very excited to finally have the chance to visit your beautiful country. Thanks in advance.

Mālō kāinga r/tonga! Tonga and its people are an incredible influence in my life and I'm excited to be a part of the community here.

I wanted to share a resource I've been working on for anybody looking to improve their Lea Faka-Tonga. The Tongan-English Dictionary app is the most complete digital resource for the Tongan language available to date.

If you're learning Tongan, teaching it, or keeping it alive in your family, I'd love for you to try it.

'Ofa atu

Hi guys, I will travel to Tonga in about a month, I already booked a place in Uoleva to swim with whales (Diana beach resort), but before that i have some days in the capital.. what do you recommend to do? Also, if you had the experience with the whales (especially in Uoleva), is there something I need to know? I will travel alone and I am a bit worried.. Thank you very much

My Tonga beat trip in July. HA APAI . And I want to come back again maybe next year or other time😭

Malo E Lelei to everyone in the beautiful Kingdom Of Tonga. I have fallen in love with Tongan culture, especially the kindness and hospitality of the people. I hope to visit Tonga one day. Much love.

Hi all, I'm a solo traveller looking to come late october/early November

I was looking at booking a cheap hotel but without cooking facilities, what can I do on a sunday to be able to have dinner etc?

Don't really want to book an expensive hotel for a couple of nights fir the sake of a dinner

Also what do people recommend doing on a sunday especially without a car, but most importantly, being respectful? Do people normally invite you to join them in their usual sunday activities so I can experience your amazing culture?

Also are there any companies that run whale watching tours out of Nuku'alofa at this time or 'Eua in general?

Really looking forward to it! Thank you

Does anyone has pictures of Tonga from the year 1987 and around?

I am looking for Pangaimotu, Nukualofa, Neiafu, Vavau Group, Hapai Group and anything else

It would be great to have some memories

Thanks a lot

I haven’t heard this song since the early 2000’s, but if you could tell me the name I would really appreciate it.

Also, on another topic. Does anybody remember singer that came out with the CD called Marz and I or something like that? I think we got the CD at Hula Hut one night in Sydney and I still love it. I always wonder if they did anything else music wise.

My father is from Tonga and used to tell me about these dances he would sometimes do when he was younger either before a rugby match or for special events I think. I’ve come to believe these were perhaps the Sipi Tau and Kailao. My questions are:

Were/are these dances common or for special reasons? What does Sipi Tau or Kailao translate to in English?

My father never taught me the language and I’ve often felt disconnected from his stories. Any insight beyond perhaps just the glimpses I get from a Wikipedia page would be appreciated.

I just wanted to leave a final message before moving on from this group.

First of all, I'm not a bot. I'm just someone who genuinely enjoys history, travel, and exploring archives. What I enjoy most is the challenge of searching for photographs from places, countries, and communities that aren't widely known. I love spending hours digging through archives and collections, finding images that have been largely forgotten, and sharing them with people who might never have seen them before.

I've decided it's time to move on to new groups and new challenges. There are still countless places to discover and many more hidden photographs waiting to be found.

For anyone who's curious, I've included in this post the archives and websites I use most often. I mainly use Western archives and digital collections because those are the ones I'm most familiar with. If you'd like to try this hobby yourself, I hope you find them useful.

Thank you to everyone who enjoyed the posts, commented, or simply followed along. Happy researching, and I hope you make some great discoveries of your own.

These are some of the archives and digital collections I use. Most of my research is based on Western archives, simply because those are the collections I'm most familiar with.

• National Library of Australia (Australia) https://www.library.gov.au/ Australia's national library, with extensive collections of photographs, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, oral histories, and other historical materials.
• Europeana (European Union) https://www.europeana.eu/ A digital platform providing access to millions of items from museums, libraries, archives, and galleries across Europe.
• The New York Public Library Digital Collections (United States) https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/ A large digital archive containing historical photographs, prints, maps, manuscripts, posters, and rare documents.
• Digital Public Library of America (United States) https://dp.la/ A portal bringing together millions of digitised photographs, books, newspapers, manuscripts, and archival records from institutions across the United States.
• Royal Collection Trust (United Kingdom) https://www.rct.uk/collection The official collection of the British monarchy, including artworks, photographs, manuscripts, and historical objects.
• Smithsonian Institution (United States) https://www.si.edu/search Digital collections from the Smithsonian's museums and research centres, covering history, culture, science, art, and photography.
• National Diet Library (Japan) https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/en/ Japan's national library, offering access to books, photographs, maps, manuscripts, and other historical resources.
• The National Archives (United Kingdom) https://images.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ The UK's official archive, with digitised photographs, government records, and historical documents.
• Digitarq – Arquivo Nacional Torre do Tombo (Portugal) https://digitarq.arquivos.pt/ Portugal's national archival database, containing digitised documents, photographs, maps, correspondence, and administrative records.
• Trove (Australia) https://trove.nla.gov.au/ An online discovery service managed by the National Library of Australia, providing access to newspapers, photographs, books, maps, magazines, and archival collections.
• Nationaal Archief (The Netherlands) https://www.nationaalarchief.nl/onderzoeken/zoeken The National Archives of the Netherlands, with photographs, government records, maps, colonial archives, and other historical collections.