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Sale'aula Lava Fields

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Two major volcanic eruptions in 1905 and 1911 left in their wake a vast barren space. The lava engulfed a village and the church still stands as a ruin half-filled with lava. The lava fields are an eerie place, the lava fissured or still showing the ripples of the flow itself.