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  • Samoa: Savaii – you wish

    After a week on Upolu we took the ferry to Savaii, the other large island in Samoa – after Hawaii and New Zealand, the largest island in Polynesia, even. Not that that means a lot, because you can still circle it in three hours, even respecting the local speed limit of 56 km/hour. (The word […]

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  • Fiji – Botaira Beach

    After traveling for more than eight months, by now we know between bad hotelrooms, average and excellent ones. The bad rooms don’t have hot water, a hard and/or wafer thin mattress, a floor that’s so filthy you don’t want to walk on it barefoot. Average is the opposite of the previous factors, maybe a safe […]

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  • Vanuatu – True Blue & Red Hot

    On our last afternoon in Santo we took a trip in an outrigger canoe to one of the blue holes on the island. The blue hole in question was the origin of a small river, and was filled with the clearest and bluest water I have ever seen. Very special. The next day took us [...]

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  • Vanuatu – No Mo Wori

    After a layover of roughly 23 hours (with 20 dgrs it was very cold! We hadn’t worn our jackets in a very long time. We rented a car, washed our clothes, had some great lamb/steak for dinner and slept in a motel), we finally flew to Port Vila in Vanuatu. It’s the first island we’re […]

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