Safotu Hot Springs Samoa

Safotu, in the northwest of Savai'i island — the largest and most traditional of the Samoan islands — is a coastal village close to the ancient volcanic features of the world's most voluminous shield volcano island, where lava fields from the 1905 eruption of Mount Matavanu buried several villages and a Catholic church that still protrudes from the solidified lava as a remarkable landmark. The Safotu Hot Springs draw on sodium-rich geothermal waters from the volcanic geology of Savai'i, offering thermal pools in a setting of remarkable Pacific volcanic beauty surrounded by the traditional fa'a Samoa way of life, where villages maintain ancient customs of communal living, fine-mat weaving, and traditional Samoan dance. The Moso'oi lava fields, the Dwarf's Cave lava tubes, the Pulemelei Mound — the largest ancient stone monument in Polynesia — and the nearby Alofaaga blowholes make western Savai'i one of the most archaeologically and volcanically significant islands in the entire Pacific Ocean.