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Travel Blogs from Huahine
Huahine - Not a care in the world
Huahine, pronounced wah-ee-nee by the French and who-a-hee-nay by Tahitians, is rugged and isolated and offers a taste of old Polynesia. Historically, the island is one of the three most important Polynesian archeological sites, along with Easter Island and Raiatea; ruins in the form of stone and coral temples remain from the days of royal rule -- as do 400-year-old stone fish traps that are still in use. Captain Cook was the ...
You Can't Stop the Music
... best on to represent them. Rounds include island, island groups, and nationals in Pape’ete. In addition to group dancing, there is the fastest female Tamure dancer, individual male dancer, singing / ...
Land Ho At Last
... Wind wise things really did not
go our way very often on the whole passage.
There were brief times where we made 8 and 9 knots, but we basically
used up all our diesel on this passage.
Breakages hampered us quite a bit, as we lost the Topping lift (holds up
the boom among other things), Out haul or Main sail clew sheet , Spinnaker Clew
Sheet and then the Spinnaker tore as well next time we flew ...
The End is Nigh
... importance, I cannot go past Machu Picchu, Peru, starting with a morning fog....hard to beat.
The Moai of Easter Island, close........morning at Ahu Tongariki almost spiritual.
MODERN WONDER: The Panama Canal......after visiting ...
Krotka przygoda z wyspami polinezyjskimi
... sam to jestem bardziej sklonny do "hardcorowych" rozwiazan, z Olka zawsze jakos troche bardziej light'owo podchodzilismy do spraw (nie wiem czy mi to wyjdzie na dobre). Przynajmniej przerobilem kolejna lekcje hiszpanskiego (juz druga! :P).
Rano - po obudzeniu sie kolo 6tej - poszedlem na miasto - doslownie (znowu nie najlzejsze rozwiazanie, ale nadal nie mialem frankow polinezyjskich, zeby zaplacic za busa). Do przebycia mialem ok 5km, niby ...