American-Samoa - The 'other' Samoa
What a nice day trip to American-Samoa. It was worth all the effort. Samoa and American-Samoa are different countries. Samoa is its own co...Read More
Showing posts with label Oceania. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oceania. Show all posts
Samoa - The First to See the Sun Each Day
My last unvisited country in Oceania, and once again, I was astonished by how wonderful the South Pacific can be. With its constantly ch...Read More
Tuvalu - Will this country soon be gone?
This isn’t a joke, nor is it sensationalism. Tuvalu is slipping, inch by inch, into the ocean - and you don’t need a biologist’s eye to ...Read More
Tonga - Shipwreck Diving Spectacle
Tonga’s vast kingdom spans many islands, but with limited infrastructure and rare flights, I opted to stay on beautiful Tongatapu instead ...Read More
Nauru - The world's 3rd smallest country
I arrived curious and with questions in my head. How poor must a country be to rent out vast portions of its land as refugee camps? How rem...Read More
Micronesia - Where Mantas are not micro
My biggest fear of coming here was to incidentally find some old Japanese soldier from WW2, somewhere in a jungle hideout and then have t...Read More
Marshall Islands - The plane below
Definitely one of my favorite countries! But the real reason why I went to the Marshall Island was to laundry money. No, of course not. Read More
Kiribati - A round of bingo before drowning?
Even after a lot of research about Kiribati with all the help from the internet, I couldn't really craft a wonderful blue-sky expecta...Read More
Fiji - Diving with Bullsharks
Fiji is famous for scuba diving, but as I run out of time on the Oceania trip, I will do the normal scuba diving another time...Read More
Australia - 15'000km Road Trip
Some time ago I decided to go for a longer visit to Australia and its surrounding countries for sightseeing and scuba diving. I left to A...Read More
New Zealand - Why south island is much better
Will have the car for 11 days and the plan is to move from Auckland to Wellington and then to the South Island. Following the road to th...Read More
New Caledonia - Roadtrip to the dive spot
Here in Noumea its actually very nice - they have a McDonalds :)! Compared to Vanuatu as neighbour country, its is civilizied and clean a...Read More
Vanuatu - 3 Weeks Scuba around Volcanos
Came from Australia to Vanuatu and will stay here for a few weeks. Will travel to Tanna and visit the active Volcano Mount Yasur. Also, V...Read More
Solomon Island - Black people with blond hair
Will stay for three weeks in the Solomon Islands and cant wait to go diving here with all those many WW2 wrecks. Arrived in Honiara ye...Read More
Papua New Guinea - Cannibals still exist here?
Spent nearly three weeks in Papua New Guinea. The itinerary included diving and traveling upwards the country, towards the Sepik area. Fr...Read More
Timor-Leste - Corals can live above water
East Timor WAS a very violent place. But as of now, it seems to be safe (at least what UN soldiers here told me). Unfortunately, the UN i...Read More
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