Eleven MPs from New Zealand are heading to Apia to watch the historic test match between the All Blacks and Manu Samoa - the first to be played on Samoan soil.
Prime Minister John Key will be joined by Sport Minister Jonathan Coleman, Immigration Minister Michael Woodhouse, Corrections Minister Sam Lotu-Iiga, and Internal Affairs Minister Peter Dunne
Key said Samoa and New Zealand enjoyed a special relationship, including a shared love of rugby.
Key was "delighted" to be attending the match.
"This visit provides an opportunity to not only recognise this huge occasion for Samoa, but also to build on talks Prime Minister Tuilaepa and I had in Apia last year on a range of political and economic issues."
Labour leader Andrew Little will be accompanied by Labour MPs Su'a William Sio, Kris Fa'afoi, and Carmel Sepuloni.
Little said the historic occasion was a big deal for Samoa, and it was a great honour to be going to observe it.
The welcome the All Blacks received was "pretty amazing" and showed the team was held in the highest regard, Little said.
"I just think the game is going to have so much enthusiasm from the locals up there, it'll be a really amazing occasion."
The All Blacks going to Samoa would be seen as "a huge expression of respect".
Little said he would not underestimate the home team playing on its home turf, and the effect the support of the crowd would have on Manu Samoa.
He had organised with Leslie Rugby and sports commentator Ken Laban to take 300 rugby balls over to Samoa that had a misprint on them and could not be used.
It was a "fantastic gesture" from the company involved, and would be great for the young boys and girls in Samoa at the schools that would receive the balls, Little said.
National MP Alfred Ngaro was also going to Apia, as was Green Party foreign affairs spokesman Kennedy Graham.
NZ First leader Winston Peters was representing his party at the match. The delegation will depart on Wednesday morning and return late the same day on the Air Force plane.