Otintaai Hotel Tarawa
Bikenibeu Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, Kiribati
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Lagoon Breeze Lodge Tarawa
11 reviews
Last review: Sep 10, 20112 miles W of Otintaai Hotel
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Pago Pago, American Somoa to Christmas Island
... thunderstorms stretching long the ITCZ with the "cherry on top" being Cat 4 hurricane Kenneth in the eastern Pacific. How and when do I fly across it?
The information I had for Christmas Island (PLCH) indicated that communication was difficult so if I left Pago Pago with great internet service and flew to Christmas Island, I envisioned being stuck with no way to view weather forecasts, maps, satellite photos, etc. - the stuff I've come to ...
Big guns, meeting expats, and a BBQ with rugby
... who were murdered by the Japanese. Standing unarmed at their posts, they met brutality with gallantry". Poignant. We completely failed to find the memorials for the US Marines, and the Japanese memorial garden (with Shinto/Bhuddist shrines in memory of the Japanese soldiers who died in the battle), despite walking round the whole island, TWICE. The Japanese memorial garden is supposed to be next to the rubbish dump, I'm not sure if that's the locals' attempt at ...
Arrival in Tarawa, Kiribati
... drink in fact .....ok, beer open, on with the story. With ourselves checked into Mary's we headed to Betio (pronounced Beso), site of the bloodiest battle of the Pacific WWII campaign. It's a ****-hole, but we did a bit of shopping for food n drink and walked around looking for Captain's Bar, a local expat haunt where we'd been told we could find useful people to talk to. This was good info as part of the reason we came here was to see ...
One night (one night), ooooh, one night in Nadi!
... up the shop keeper and spent F$46 on 12 huge bottles of Fiji Bitter. Now given that a small can/bottle of the same drink costs F$5 at the bar, that's a mighty good deal and we made some serious headway into said booze. Before long, a bunch of us decided it'd be funny to go cannon balling into the pool at Smugglers Cove, the security guard just sat there shaking his head but being amused at the scene unfolding in front of ...
Our last few days in Fiji
... hell of a lot at Manta Ray as we'd done most of the activities they had on offer there for free at Barefoot, so we settled for plenty of drinking, sunbathing, telling dirty jokes, and eating a LOT of he amazing food they served there, the food just seemed to get better and better with each place we went to which is always a good thing. I'd be hard pushed to choose between Barefoot and Manta Ray for who had the best food but ...
