Fiji with Family: Beyond the Kids Clubs

Renowned for their welcoming culture and devotion to children, Fiji is an easy pick for families seeking a fun, low-risk trip overseas. World-class resorts offer sensational services (including engaging kids clubs, lagoon pools and onsite spas for mum and dad) while Fiji holiday packages help manage the cost (many deals allow kids to fly, stay,

Moai and More on Easter Island

Easter Island has been a huge bucket list item for me since for as long as I can remember. There was no way I was going to Santiago and not also going to Easter Island. There are only two places which offer flights to Easter Island – or Rapa Nui – as it’s properly called

The Ultimate Cook Island Shopping Guide

The Cook Islands are made up of 15 islands scattered over a vast tract of the South Pacific. Rarotonga is the easiest island the reach, and the one which obviously receives the most tourists. This guide will focus on where to shop for the best souvenirs and gifts on Rarotonga. Pearls The Cook Islands, like

The Cross Island Track with a Toddler – Cook Island Travel

1001 hikes to do before you die. It was just my type of book, as an avid hiker and list ticker, so I snapped it up. Our next destination was the Cook Islands, and to my surprise, they had one walk featured from Rarotonga. It was rated easy. Perfect. The walk was the Cross Island

What to do in Rarotonga with Kids

Jake is now 3. He’s at an age where we talk about upcoming vacations before we go on them. He understands, he gets excited, hes engaged. And when we get home he remembers the place and his experiences there and differentiates it as travel, as something different than home. We recently spent a week on

My Pacific Island Bucket List

I am in love with Pacific Islands. The first island I visited was Samoa, and I must say, it is probably still my favourite. Since then I have also visited Tonga, Fiji, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, and Papua New Guinea. So I guess I’m going pretty OK when it comes to Pacific Islands. But in all

The PNG Cruise Shopping Guide

“How much money should I change into Kina?” I asked Kaelah before we departed on the cruise. Neither of has had any idea. I had read bits of my Papua New Guinea guide book about the areas we were visiting, and it didn’t have much to say about shopping or souvenirs. We had little to

Cruising Papua New Guinea

A country with over 850 languages. A country with hundreds, maybe thousands of ethnic groups. A country of both fast paced modernization and tribes who still live in the same way before colonization. White sand beaches. Unexplored jungle. Birds of paradise. Elaborate native dress. If those words don’t stir a bit of adventurous feeling in

What to wear in PNG

Recently I spent two weeks cruising around Papua New Guinea with two girlfriends and Jacob. We visited six different on shore locations during our cruise, all very different from the last. While everything in my previous post – A ladies guide on what to wear cruising, still applies in this case. being in PNG does

A Day On Lifou Island With Kids

We sailed through the night. The waters were calm as we navigated from the main island of New Caledonia over to Lifou, one of New Caledonia’s Loyalty Islands. We were still when we awoke. Because the island is small and does not have a harbour to dock at, we needed to disembark via the small