Have you had some great travel experienced story?

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Answer 1

A few great stories, a few great experiences. this was one of the more memorable trips:

In March 2003 visited New Caledonia and Vanuatu. While in New Caledonia, was hit dead-on by a Cat. 5 hurricane, Cyclone Erica. The roof of our "fare" literally came off (we sheltered in a concrete shower stall) and we were lucky to survive. Flew next to Vanuatu, where we stayed on a resort island where the owner had a pet pig which was raised with her dogs - and the pig thought he was a dog. Then chartered a Cessna and pilot to fly to Epi Island where we landed on the beach (the airstrip had been destroyed by another hurricane that year). On the way up we flew into the mouth of an active volcano where, in addition to almost losing my lunch, I got some amazing photographs. Again lucky to survive as we got caught in an updraft and almost sucked into the volcano. The pilot, who was a bit crazy, was undeterred. Once on Epi, we met the chief and his family, climbed into the island's lone vehicle, a truck which ran on fuel made from coconut husks, and drove up the hill to meet the rest of the tribe. They prepared a feast of fresh fruit and kava (Melanesian hallucinagenic drink), and the locals did what they call a "custom dance". This is a big tourist attraction on other islands but our pilot told us he'd never heard of it done on Epi before, and he had been flying there for 20 years. In the middle of the entertainment, the chief's son whispered in his ear that he had just heard on the BBC World Service (on his battery-operated longwave radio) the bombs had started falling on Baghdad. Word got around the village quickly, and although we could not understand their language, we could understand the word "Iraq" being repeated over and over. We were quite amazed that in this isolated place where they didn't have electricity and still cooked their food in pits and made fire with friction that they were so up on global current events.

Answer 2

Traveling is my life. I love it. I came to Japan to teach English so I could travel the region.