Plaza Tumon

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We started out from another road and hiked 3 hours through trails that had lots of forks, finding several times that we were going in the wrong direction. However we were more familiar with the topography and features so that kept us giong in the right general direction. The hike goes al over the place, through an old WW2 tank farm and down a steep mud sice cliff where we used a rope down into the lower Sigua falls ...

... a lot of Divers feed this guy and he is very friendly... coming out, swirling around you and even touching your mask. At one point it shot straight at me and litterally ran into my camera.. not the brightest crayon in the box but hey.. I guess you dont have to be when people feed you all day! The other real cool thing about that particular dive was the visibility. Its far outside of the harbor so theres not as much ...

... taking it apart and all the fun stuff..... After setting up our gear we all lined up along about a 10 foot concrete wall that separated the ocean pool and the land and jumped in, holding our masks and regulators so we wouldnt lose them. we then snorkeled out a bit until our first confined dive spot and switched to breathing through the regulator. The water was pretty clear before we got in lol but since we all kicked up a lot of sand at first it was hard to see but you could make ...

... a guide or go with a group,we decided to wing it based on a visual memory of a satellite picture. Sigua Falls is a 70 foot waterfall deep in the jungle mountains southeast of Tumon that has a real deep lake and is known for being a great cliff jumping spot. After picking up my weather coworker that just arrived and Fuller, a friend from Alaska also deployed here, we headed out to the trailhead off the side of the road. The hike itself is 7 ...

... sijaitsee. Tälle tykille olisi sitten tarkoitus vielä lahjoittaa ja uhrata jotain leikkiaseita, että sodanjumalat pysyy tyytyväisinä, mutta voitte olla ihan varma etten osallistunut tuohon hölmöilyyn! Itse ranta on kyllä todella upea ja kannattaa jatkaa kallionreunaa eteenpäin vielä hienommalle rannalle. Two Lovers Point Jyrkkä kalliokieleke, mistä on hienot maisemat Tumoninlahdelle ja karmea suora pudotus alas mereen. Ja yllätys, yllätys paikkaan liittyy ...

... tilillä jo useampi sataa euroa hotellivarauksista kertyneitä bonuksia, että melko ilmaiseksi tulee nyt tämä asuminen. Tämä Holiday Resort hotelli oli aulasta aivan älyttömän hieno, mutta huoneet ei sitten ollutkaan ihan samaa tasoa. Ehkä joskus 80-luvulla on kyllä olleet, mutta ei enää. :-) Ei silti mitään valittamista, koska huone on aivan järkyttävän iso verrattuna Japanin huoneisiin ja saatiin vielä kulmahuoneisto, josta on parveke suoraan merelle. Nyt ei tosin keskellä yöll ...

I arrived in Guam from Manila in the early morning of Feb. 5, leaving on late night of Feb. 4 when the Philippine Congress kicked-out JDV as their Speaker. I took a taxi (fare was almost $10 for less than 2 mile) from the airport to Guam International Hotel in Tamuning. Took a 2 hour power nap and then was picked up to start the ...

... the sand is white and the water is clear and warm...it's just that there are so many better places that aren't so far away from home. And there was something slightly seedy about it. I guess it was the mix of strip clubs and tattoo shops dotted in with the run-down bars and the 80's style version of several American fast food chains (the Pizza Hut with the 8 ft roof, Wendy's with the giant orange haired Wendy on the sign, and Taco Bell in ...

... breakfast by their families. The people native to Guam are the Chamorro. It is important to note that they are not "Guamanians" or "Guamian". The Denny's had a special menu of Chamorro favorites. The breakfast entrees included rice, portuguese sausage, grilled beef and whole tilapia-and yes, for breakfast. Also, because of the large number of Japanese tourists, rice-both ...

Had one of my most influential experiences waiting for my very late night flight out of Australia. As I sat waiting at 1 a.m., a guy sat down next to me. He apparently just wanted to talk. He told me his life story about how he was a prince from some small south-pacific island and had multiple marriages around the world, failed at many things in life, and finally his family convinced ...