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Village in American Samoa, United States

Vaitogi

Vaitogi is a village in American Samoa.

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It has many missionaries and tourists who are attracted by shopping for local products. Vaitogi might be most famous of its legends about the Turtle and Shark. It is said that once, at a time when food was scarce, an old woman took her granddaughter to the bluff at Vaitogi, and holding hands, they leaped into the sea down below. While the young girl was transformed into a shark, the blind grandmother became a turtle. It gives its name to a local U-shaped cove in town, which was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 2014.

How locals move

Getting around Vaitogi the local way

  • 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. Last edited 2026-08.

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