My Travels

In many ways its just another Polynesian island, created by volcanoes, hosting flora and fauna that came from distant lands and adapted to the island after it was formed at least hundreds of thousands of years ago, and eventually became populated by humans during their eastward migration from Asia. But if that were all there was to Easter Island,...

When one thinks of traveling to Easter Island (known locally as Rapa Nui), the  reason certainly centers around the Moai, the stone statues representing long-eared legless human (mostly) male torsos which are so plentiful across the island.  What makes them intriguing is not just their artistry, but more the mystery they leave us with: how were they carved, transported...

From the outside the Adventure Park looks like a cheesy kids amusement park, complete with Ferris wheel and water slide rising above the canopy of trees.  But if you pay the nominal entrance fee and then venture past those elements of the park you will be rewarded with a beautiful array of flora and fauna in the Orchid Garden...

Early morning wake up and ride to the airport in Port Moresby for my flight to the Solomon Islands.  Easy check-in, kind of boring conversation with a Kiwi pilot, and then waiting for my flight.  That’s when I realized that my boarding pass said gate 2, and the monitors said gate 4.  Two people confirmed that gate 2 was...

Two years ago I wrote a review of the Symphony of lights on TripAdvisor entitled “Light show? What light show? Has it started already?"  You can get a sense of what I thought about the show from just the title.  Even though I had booked a great room in the Intercontinental Hotel, on a high floor, specifically to have...