Archive for the ‘Pacific Islands’ Category

Beach tennis: the Asia-Pacific tour

Trav­el­ing is a lot of fun by itself, with new des­ti­na­tions and new peo­ple you meet being an eye open­ing expe­ri­ence that keeps you busy and in awe most of the time. Yet some­times the trip itself can be made into an even bet­ter expe­ri­ence if you are able to prac­tice a hobby, sport or […]

Tahiti and Moorea on a budget (Part 2)

As we reached Moorea in French Poly­ne­sia we began to appre­ci­ate the beauty of this Pacific island, per­haps the most amaz­ing I have seen in the world (so far) and were excited about spend­ing a week there. While get­ting there from Tahiti you can see that the water is as crys­tal clear as it can […]

Waimea Canyon in Hawaii: The Grand Canyon of the Pacific

Please wel­come guest writer Jake Gar­rett from Kauai, Hawaii. Jake has lived exten­sively around the world and cur­rently calls home the Vil­las at Poipu Kai, in Hawaii. It was in 1866 that Mark Twain first ven­tured to Hawaii and gave the iso­lated par­adise a para­graph in geog­ra­phy books. The insti­tu­tion that spon­sored his trav­els was […]

Tahiti and Moorea on a budget (Part 1)

How to make your trip to French Poly­ne­sia afford­able I’m sure that like me, you always thought that the islands fea­tured in spec­tac­u­lar pho­tos you have found yoursel star­ing at are only acces­si­ble to the extremely wealthy and cer­tainly out of reach for the bud­get con­scious, right? Wrong! Sure, French Poly­ne­sia can be as expen­sive as […]

Hide away in the South Pacific: Vanuatu

For­merly known as the New Hebrides, Van­u­atu is an inde­pen­dent island chain/ coun­try located 3 hrs NE of Au and 3 hours north of NZ, fairly close to Tahiti, and was going to be our first stop in the Pacific islands. Our flight with Air Van­u­atu from Mel­bourne with a stopover in Syd­ney arrived on […]

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