Dark Island Hotel

... us when we came through. He gave us lots of information about the areas we can into London through and got us to The Luna and Simone Hotel. WE have room 13 up 68 stairs. Not good for Mum so will see thsi morninh what the chances of a shift are. As my ...

... to "pinch" the internet and it was actually quite scary all these little wallabies ganging up on me, their eyes glinting in the dark!  The hotel was fine but there was only one nearby (25km) eating place so you have no choice but to have dinner ...

Hello and welcome to Dark Castle Hotel and Suites! Let us tell some history of this building. First of all this building wasn't originally a hotel. It was the home to the evil Dark King and dungeon/torture chamber to his prisoners. This place was very ...

... .  They all thoroughly enjoyed it as much as I did.  I roamed through the exhibit on all of the other Pacific Island cultures.  Though they appear to be very similar I discovered that many of them had stark differences after I began to read ...

... .) As it was approaching dark, Erik had no desire to dodge kangaroos in the dark, we scuttled off to the hotel in Kingscote-on the northern side of the island. We stayed at a basic motel called the Seaview Motel, but our room was enormous. We had a lovely ...

... language, even if they did forget it. Funny food note - apparently you cannot find brewed coffee anywhere on the island - i have  been to several cafes and our hotel but you only get a small pot of hot water and a tin of Sanka - blah!!!!  I ...

Entebbe to Ngamba Island A slow start out of "Hotel Lybia" and we were off to get the briefing and checks done at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust (CSWCT) office near the Pier in Entebbe. Lilly in the office there was super ...

... November For breakfast they served up pastries and fresh fruit, as they were heavily in season, this included Mangos from the island's own trees.  Always living on the edge, we signed ourselves up for a shark feeding trip out on the open ...

... up to have a look. The moon was suppose to turn blood red when fully eclipsed so was interested in having a look. Day 2 - Island Tranverse, Diving alarm went off just before 3am and wandered outside. Unfortunately it sems as if the total eclipse had been ...

The morning ferry from Stewart Island was a royal pain to get to.  7:30am we were all there... well all except the Irish girls and Amy who had been enjoying the local hospitality the night before.  It seems that the pub on Stewart Island buys ...

... coloured rosella. Our return trip was on another, but much smoother, dirt road. We had dinner at the hotel restaurant and tried some Kangaroo Island wines, good sauvignon blanc and riesling and a terrible chardonnay.We also tried DUKKAH which was a dip ...

... needed more time to explore the Kingsley Plantation.  We did view some beautiful homes on stilts on a few peninsulas. Amelia Island the Isle of Eight Flags was pleasant with greenery and a quaint area of the Amelia Island Plantation.  ...

... shoes. On the way I took Lindsay to a great breakfast place that I had visited 2 years earlier on the first inter island trip I had ever made. Ken's House of Pancakes!!! The serves are dressed in Hawaiian print mumus. Their specialties are the sumu loco ...

... we picked up our campervan and headed out for nearly four weeks on the road. We had been told by numerous people that the South Island was the one to concentrate on so we attempted to ‘do’ the North Island in just five days. This involved a ...

... up to 2 months to arrive by boat for sessions, it was agreed that the capital should be moved closer to the south island so that Parliament could sit in a timely fashion and the government could run the country more effectively.  Wellington is a ...

... * slept through the pick up time for two fully paid day trips * booked their New Zealand travel itinerary to start on the wrong island I bet even Phileas Fogg had his off days and he had a talking mouse helping him (or was that ...

... to Scotland. The weather is surprisingly good too, bright and sunny, not the cold rainy weather we had expected on the South island. We arrive in Kaikoura around 6pm and immediately spot some signs to a Seal Colony - it's still light so we follow the ...

... way to Auckland. Our highlight for today was a visit to the Waitomo Caves where we were able to experience a boatride through a dark cave that had thousands of glow worms inhabiting it. The only way to describe it was like going through a darker version ...

... , then moulds these older, harder sands into spectacular sculptures, highly coloured by iron oxides eg The Pinnacles on Fraser Island. Lake McKenzie A child building a sandcastle know that water sinks through sand a he tries to fill in a moat. ...

... on the brownish side.  We had a few beers, chatted with some other travelers and decided to make the 2 hour journey back to the hotel before dark...   And dark it got... It didn't help that my legs were so tired from ride earlier that I had ...

... a pretty lighthouse on it and mountains rising from the island further behind it. I took a lot of photos of the lighthouse island, much to Wolfi's annoyance. Finally at the terminal, we walked with the Tofino-bound woman to the shuttle and checked that ...