Christmas in Polynesia: Mele and Iosepa

  Episode #7  Sending You Our Holiday Greetings!     Episode #6 “SILENT NIGHT” A Tender Moment of Christmas Love and Joy with Mele and Iosepa Marau na Kerisimasi!  (Merry Christmas – Fiji) Episode #5 “Mele Lets Out Her Inner...

Favorites in Tahiti

Surprise!  Our Tahitian Village guests love eating free samples  Heitiare Pane’e, our PCC Tahitian Village “chiefess” or manager, reports that sampling faraoa opa’a or traditional Tahitian coconut bread is one of the favorite guest activities in the village. “We...
A Noble Heritage: Tonga

A Noble Heritage: Tonga

Mālō e Lelei, the Tongans say in greeting, as we focus on their village and activities in our November 2014 e-newsletter. Tongan culture is still very much alive, not only here at the Polynesian Cultural Center, but back home in the South Pacific and among our people...
A Tongan Wedding: Courtship and Marriage on the Isle of Tonga

A Tongan Wedding: Courtship and Marriage on the Isle of Tonga

By Polynesian Cultural Blogger Bobby Akoi, Jr.  One of my favorite times of the year is celebrating a wedding of a couple.  I’ve been to almost every ethnic wedding you can think of and had the awesome privilege of marrying some of them.  But I can honestly say that...

2014 Iosepa Summer Launch

The Iosepa — the Brigham Young University–Hawaii/Polynesian Cultural Center’s Hawaiian sailing canoe —left its permanent home berth in the PCC’s Hawaiian Village on August 51, 2014, and is currently moored off Hukilau Beach in Laie, in preparation for its next...