Papapapaitai Falls

Tiavi / Lake Lanoto'o National Park, Upolu Island, Samoa

About Papapapaitai Falls

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Papapapaitai Falls (I’ve also seen it referred to as Papapapaitai Waterfall as well as Papapapai-tai Falls or Papapapai-Uta Falls) was probably the easiest of the Samoan waterfalls that we experienced as it was a roadside waterfall.

All we had to do was pull up to the signed lookout right off the Cross-Island Road (see directions below).

Papapapaitai_Falls_001_11132019 - Papapapaitai Falls
Papapapaitai Falls

From there, we looked across the canyon towards the impressively tall waterfall, which was said to have a height of 100m.

The best views of the falls were from the left side of the lookout, where there was a small retaining wall preceding a gully right between tall grass.

The right side of the lookout was mostly blocked by tall reeds as well as branches from a big tree essentially growing near the middle of the field of view.

So as far as our experiences with this waterfall went, we pretty much just pulled over to take a look and then head out.

Upolu_018_11102019 - Looking through a small opening on the right side of the overlook towards Papapapaitai Falls
Looking through a small opening on the right side of the overlook towards Papapapaitai Falls

There didn’t seem to be an official way to actually swim at this waterfall given its location across a deep canyon.

Thus, we typically spent perhaps less than 15 minutes here for each time that we made a stop here.

I’m not sure if this waterfall was part of the Lake Lanoto’o National Park, but we did not have to pay to experience it, which was surprisingly rare for waterfalls in Samoa.

Finally, according to our LP book, there was an unmarked track about 100m before the lookout that led to the Tiavi Waterhole, but Julie and I didn’t do this so we can’t comment on that any further.

Authorities

Papapapaitai Falls resides in the Tuamasaga District near Apia on ‘Upolu Island, Samoa. For information or inquiries about the area as well as current conditions, you can try the MNRE website.

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