The Solomon Islands are apparently amazing for diving….. shame I don’t like fish! However, for a raw look at Melanesian culture, and to check out some interesting Guadalcanal history, Honiara is definitely worth a (short) visit. What to do in Honiara! Visit the WW2 relics The easiest place to do this is to go to the …
Solomon Islands : Scrambling around the WW2 wreckage on Guadalcanal Read More »
Palau – the worlds best diving and super friendly people at the heart of Micronesia…….. Palau is an interesting place….if all you ever saw was the main street of Koror, you would think you were in some dodgy craphole. All but the extraordinarily expensive tourist hotels are little more than grubby doss houses, largely catering to …
Yap is one of the rare places in the world where instead of going to on a tour to ‘see what life used to be like in the traditional culture’, you can walk around the island and experience the traditional culture alive and kicking…… go now while you still can. Boarding the flight to Yap …
Tourism development So, if you thought Kiribati had not many tourists, Welcome to Tuvalu. Apparently there are less than 1000 tourists per year! Actually Tuvalu is delightful, and I did meet an American aid worker there who was in charge of building the tourist industry. His challenges will be numerous Air Fiji flies only …
I have met many wonderful people on my travels who want to come to NZ, and have asked for my top tips on where to hike. Apologies for the tardiness, but here are my favourite places to run and hike in the worlds best hiking country The Great Walks There are nine great walks in NZ, and they …
Kiribati – one of the least visited countries in the world, less than 5,000 tourists a year!!!! It definitely felt like it as only 8 of us got off the plane and everyone else was an aid worker. Just to clear up the obvious – it is pronounced Kiribass…. the ‘ti’ is pronounced as ‘ss’, …
Visiting Nauru was a bit challenging and conflicting. Challenging as the flight was outrageously priced on the monopoly airline carrier and it took me 47 emails to the consulate in Brisbane to get permission to travel. Conflicting as I am deeply troubled by the Australian governments approach to ‘outsourcing’ their ‘refugee problem’ to the pacific. …