A month is nowhere near long enough to see Australia. In fact it was barely enough time to visit just the east coast. We visited four different states and enjoyed very different experiences in each. Oh, and lots of local beer and wine.
Following up on our two week journey on New Zealand’s North Island, we did the same on the South Island. We drove from Queenstown to Christchurch with a lot of stops in between. Spectacular.
New Caledonia is only three hours from Sydney, Australia, but a world away. It is a little piece of France in the South Pacific. Despite the French influence, the Kanak Melanesian culture still prevails.
We drove New Zealand’s North Island – Te Ika-a-Māui in Maori – from Auckland to Wellington on the southern tip. Spectacular scenery, tough driving, amazing hiking tracks, and lots of orange cones.
We went to Bali with visions of serene, idyllic beaches around Denpasar and calm, spiritual surroundings in Ubud. Instead we found a heavily commercialized tourism industry.
The saving grace is that even in the face of that commercialization, most Balinese have maintained their traditions and spiritualism.
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