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Easter Island

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

After the disappointing stop over in Tahiti Easter Island´s sun came as a welcome change! The island is friendly and laid back and we love it! The moai (“heads”) are even more impressive in real life and it more than lives up to the photos that you see before you get here.

Sign

(better make that lots of photos!!)

Tahiti

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007

…was a wash out. We headed over to Moreera, rather than stay on Tahiti itself, but that didn´t change the weather! It was so bad that we decided to move our flight to Easter Island forward to the next flight off the island. That gave us four days and it was heavy rain interspersed with monsoon downpours for those 4 days – we spent 95% of the time in the bungalow not doing much at all – apart from avoiding the rain!

A light shower

Disappointing, although not somewhere we would go back to. The place is more for the upmarket traveller or those on honeymoon.

Coromandel Peninsular

Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
A day´s walk in the Kauaeranga Kauri trail saw us get wet (yet again!) and miss out on the views from the top of the pinnacles! The walk was, however, interesting, on old kauri logging trails and past a damn ... [Continue reading this entry]

Tongariro Northern Circuit

Monday, January 8th, 2007
It was from one "great walk" straight onto another - no rest for the wicked! The day after finishing the River Journey we headed out on the Tongariro Northern Circuit - which encompasses the "best day walk in NZ" - ... [Continue reading this entry]

Whanganui River Journey

Monday, January 8th, 2007

Over New Year we spent 5 days in a red canadian canoe (all starting singing - we all live in a red canadian canoe - to the tune of yellow submarine - we did for the majority of the 5 ... [Continue reading this entry]