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This is really something for you, Pam!
And for other adventurous people :-) By the way, we will arrive New Zealand tuesday november 6th.
Tarawa is an atoll, sometime there is not room for anything, but the road. At other places it widens out, and give room for houses and small villages. The Capitol, Bairiki, is a village a little larger than the others. There is a bank, post office, telecom and three embassies here, New Zealand is one of them! In the city center there is a small shopping center and a market place. The presidents's office and the foreign ministry are the most important official buildings, the latter more a barack than a building. A lot of different churches are spread along the road, and several schools.

The US Peace Corps has a lot of volounteers here, working as teacher trainers or with healt care. You have to be an american citizen to join them. But there is a british organisation, too, which allow anyone to join them. The volounteers sleep in dormatories with shared fascilities, they do not have a salary, but an allowance.

From here we can travel by plane to many other islands, but not to Christmas Island. The only way to go there by plane, is via Fiji and Hawaii. From here we would have to wait for a freight boat. Some of the islands are pretty close, but it is cheaper to go by plane than to hire a boat! Tomorrow we are going by a hired boat right across the lagune her, to Bikatawa, it will cost us 110 dollars (austalian)! Saturday we are boing to Butaritari by plane, the fare there is 148 dollars for a much longer trip.

(16.10.01, kl. 06:45) « Tilbake