Lagoon Breeze Lodge Tarawa
Bikenibeu Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Kiribati
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Otintaai Hotel Tarawa
7 reviews
Last review: Sep 12, 20112 miles E of Lagoon Breeze Lodge
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Pago Pago, American Somoa to Christmas Island
In the local language "ti" is pronounced as an "s" so you can see how the local island name Kiritimati really sounds like "Christmas", an island first encountered by Europeans on Christmas Day. It is easily the largest island in the island nation of Kiribati (and the largest coral atoll in the world).
My flight from Pago Pago was a decision-making challenge. The crux of the weather issue is the Inter Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) ...
Big guns, meeting expats, and a BBQ with rugby
... firing one of those bad boys, but they haven't been fired in over 60 years.
We spent the rest of the afternoon walking around and hunting for war memorials, we only managed to find the one for the Coastwatchers; a group of 12 British, NZ, Australian, and Canadian civillians (I think they were civillians as they were unarmed, pretty **** soldiers if they don't have guns), the inscription on the memorial reads "This is dedicated to the 12 men of ...
Arrival in Tarawa, Kiribati
... and headed to our accommodation for the first week of our time in Kiribati. Handy really as we didn't really have a plan, in fact, all I had was a banging headache.
Once at Mary's we realised that we'd just completed our first international act of smuggling: 4 large beers and a huge bottle of rum. Not exactly a kilo of cocaine or a box load of AK47s but not bad all the same. I'm just about to crack open one of those beers for ...
One night (one night), ooooh, one night in Nadi!
... Alicia and I decided that as we'd be arriving in Nadi around 6pm and had to be at the airport for 3am, there was little point in us getting a room for the evening so Deano kindly let us dump our gear at his hotel, wash the travel stench off ourselves and then get down to the important business of drinking. The bar at Smugglers Cove (like all the other bars in Nadi Bay) shut at 11pm so we promptly rolled over to the local ...
Our last few days in Fiji
... they were heading straight back with the boat. As we were pulling up on the beach we saw Ashley and Deano (among others) who we'd met previously at a couple of different resorts across our time in the Yasawas. We were wondering what we were going to do with ourselves for the next 4 days as we were beginning to feel like we'd had enough of Fiji by this time so it was good to see some more familiar faces. We didn't really do ...
