Port Vila is more of a white man’s city than any of the other places I have visited in the Pacific. Business must be good here and that also gives a few options for Western run accommodation, bars restaurants. When checking into the dorms at the Australian run Travellers Budget Motel, I was put into...Read More
When hitchhiking from the White Sands Village to the island capitol Lenakel, I explained the driver my way of traveling and he suggested that we should ask the chief of the Island if I could stay the next night with him. He drove all the way up to his house and asked in his language...Read More
When reading an in-air magazine on the way to Vanuatu it became clear to me that in order to experience the country to its fullest I would have to fly away from the main island of Efate. On the island Santo in the North, there were some of the World’s best beaches and wreck dives...Read More
Honiara is quite a small town, and having just four days there was enough to see what was worth seeing. Upon arrival I jumped straight into a taxi to town costing a hundred Solomon Dollars and then negotiating a five hundred dollar room down to three hundred and fifty, this country is expensive! I also...Read More
The main reason why I had booked a week stopover in Port Moresby was to attend the annual Hiri Moale cultural festival. As soon as I landed I met with my couchsurfing hosts who told me that the festival was cancelled and that Moresby was a dangerous city where you cannot leave the house without...Read More
Having stayed with my Couchsurfing host in Port Moresby for five days instead of the initial two that I had asked for I was feeling that it was time for me to leave. Hotels are very expensive here and camping in the city is far too dangerous. I had to improvise and went down to...Read More
When I first arrived at Port Moresby and went out for a couple of beers with some volunteers I would be couchsurfing with, I was told that Moresby was one of the most dangerous cities in the World. They fed me stories of targeted break ins, blind voilence by gangs, car jackings, muggings and racial...Read More
My last four days in Cairns have been spent relaxing at the Esplanade, which is a public pool in the middle of the city and going out at night. Cairns is also a place that offer all kinds of activities like rain forrest trips, bungee jumping, skydiving and dive trips to the Great Barrier Reef...Read More
Having snorkeled at the Great Barrier Reef at the Whitsundays, but had really bad visibility and seen very little I was ready to get a better experience when doing a day trip from Cairns that would take me to the outer reef for a few dives. After about a ninety minute boat ride we were...Read More
Having traveled with train, boat and bus to get from Tully to Magnetic island I was happy when I finally got dropped off at Base Hostel where there was a nice little forest just 50 meters from the beach. A perfect place for me to string my hammock. Together with my snorkeling gear, pennyboard and...Read More
Having had a great experience with the farmstay I was in search for some more cultural adventures and found the perfect option; an overnight Indigenos Rainforest trip tour from Tully. On the drive to the camp our guide stopped to pick some leaves from the trees that he explained that would work as metal foil...Read More
Arriving Airlie Beach at seven in the morning I had only an hour before the boat left, so I jumped into a taxi from the train station and made it just in time for my sailing trip. I had booked the British Defender, a boat accommodating as much as 30 people, but still being quite...Read More
A lot of the experience of Australian East Coast is to visit beaches, go out and go surfing, but by doing only that you would miss out the most important part about traveling, which is to experience the culture of the country you are traveling to. I had booked an overnight trip to a cattle...Read More
Byron Bay and Noosa is usually the places people say they like the most from backpacking the East Coast of Australia. Maybe it is because of the laid back athmosphere, the great hostels or the fact that they both are cities with nice beaches and good conditions for surfing. For me it was a bit...Read More
After a few days in Byron Bay it was once again time to hit the road to go to Noosa. The first part of the drive went through the beginning of Queensland and the area called the Gold Coast, which has a bit of California feel to it; the streets were really broad and clean, ...Read More
Byron Bay is a very laid back city on the border between New South Wales and Queensland quite popular among backpackers. The city itself is quite small with one main street where you find mostly clothing stores, souvenir shops and restaurants, but the beach there stretches as far as eyes can see. At the end...Read More
As if Byron Bay is not laid-back and alternative enough there is a city less than two hours away called Nimbin where people are still living like the Vietnam War was never over. I had booked a day trip through my hostel where the driver was an old stoner playing music from the 70s and...Read More
