3 essays tagged “culture”.
Rotorua, New Zealand
Rotorua smells of sulphur. The geothermal vents are throughout the town. The Māori cultural centres are the most significant in the country. The combination — natural strangeness and indigenous depth — is the reason to come.
December 12, 2022
Papeete, French Polynesia
French Polynesia is at the more expensive and more remote end of South Pacific travel. The Society Islands — Tahiti, Moorea, Huahine, Raiatea, Bora Bora — are the famous core. The Tuamotu and Marquesas groups are the genuine off-grid experience.
June 15, 2021
Nadi, Fiji
Fiji is, in the brochures, a series of identical-looking resort beaches. Fiji as actually visited is 330 islands with significant cultural, ecological, and geological variation; the Yasawas and the highlands of Viti Levu are where the country reveals itself.
May 29, 2021