Taking toddlers to the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park
We stayed for a week in Pahoa on Hawai’i island. We really wanted to visit the Volcano national park and we had been waiting for ten months now to finally get here. The islands of Hawaii are all created by volcanic activity and here on Big Island you can still witness this creation. Over the course of a week we visited the park in total three times. When we researched for our trip we did find very little information on activities for toddlers, so here is our guide on taking young kids into the Volcano park. On the first day we were eager to do some hiking, so we checked out 2 short...
Read MoreSnorkeling with sea turtles
We love seeing wild animals in their own habitat. Be it the large herds of elephants in a game park in South Africa or the frolicking dolphins in New Zealand. And since yesterday we can add one more species to the list as we snorkelled with green sea turtles in Hawaii. Yesterday we decided to go to Anini beach. This is a quiet and beautiful beach nearby and is known as one of the safest and most protected beaches in Kauai. There is a 3 km long fringed reef along the length of the beach, making this a very calm, shallow and safe sea to swim and snorkel. Perfect for our family of beginning...
Read MoreKnocked out in Kauai
No – the title of this blog is not meant as a metaphor, that Kauai is so stunning that we are knocked out by it (which would be true by the way). No, we are literally knocked out. Not sure what it is, a nasty virus, the still strongly blowing trade winds, the toll of being on the road for several months now, are the combination of all of the above. But this week all four of us fell ill, a nasty cough, sour throat, tiredness and a headache. Luckily we were not all sick on the same days and neither were we so sick that we needed to stay in bed all day, but we have taken it calm this...
Read MoreWindy Oahu
In Hawaii they have the saying that you should adjust to island time. Meaning that everything moves a bit slower here than at mainland US. Well we must have adjusted quickly to island time, as we just realised that we have been already on Hawaii for more than a week and we have not yet written any blog on this site.If you don’t, you might want to follow u as well on Facebook, as we do post more regular there. Anyway, today we uploaded our first batch of pictures and written this blog for our readers. A little over a week ago we arrived in Honolulu. The huge storm in Sydney did cause...
Read MoreTop 15 things we liked in New Zealand
We have just arrived in Hawaii and New Zealand already start to feel as a distant memory. But we had such a great time there, so we decided to write a short summary and list our top 15 highlights for you. Maybe it will inspire other families. New Zealand is a great country to travel with young kids, especially if you like nature and outdoors. It is not a low budget country though, but for us it was well worth the money. We visited both the South Island and the North Island, we traveled for 5 weeks in a camper van and we stayed in a house for a couple of weeks on both islands. In 85 days we...
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