Aoloau
Aʻoloau is a village in the west of Tutuila Island, American Samoa.
Aʻoloau is a village in the west of Tutuila Island, American Samoa. It is located inland, 5 miles (8 km) southwest of Pago Pago. It is also known as Aʻoloaufou, which means "New Aʻolou". An abandoned area in town by Aʻoloau Bay is known as Aʻoloautuai, which means "Old Aʻoloau". Aʻoloau's nickname is Nuu Puaolele which means the Fog Village.
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Worth seeing in and around Aoloau
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01American Samoa Community College
American Samoa Community College is a public land-grant community college in the village of Mapusaga, American Samoa. Only legal residents of American Samoa who have graduated from high school or obtained a General Equivalency Diploma are admitted to ASCC. It is American Samoa's only tertiary education institution.
3 km · land-grant community college in Mapusaga, American Samoa · Wikipedia
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Getting to Aoloau
- Airports
- Pago Pago (PPG), 7 km · Faleolo (APW), 144 km
- Apia → Aoloau120 km · quickest by ferry, 9h 50m · $56–154
- Vava'u Island → Aoloau590 km · quickest by air, 5h 19m · $220–340
- Wallis Island → AoloauTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Aoloau
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aoloau. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inIf you are joining a package tour, the tour company might be able to arrange this for an extra fee; check with them to be sure.
- Get inThe Faleolo airport in nearby Samoa has wider international connections including Air New Zealand to Auckland in New Zealand, Fiji Airways to Honolulu USA and Nadi in Fiji, Samoa Airways to Maota in Samoa and Pago Pago in American Samoa and Tongatapu in Tonga.
- Get aroundA weekly ferry service from Pago Pago to the Manu’a Islands is provided by government operated excursion boat.
- Get aroundRegular small ferries also offer service to and from the island of Aunuʻu.
From Wikivoyage: American Samoa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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