For today we had planned an island tour on Kauai, which is often referred to as “Garden Island” due to its lush vegetation. The main attractions on Kauai are Waimea Canyon, often referred to as the “Grand Canyon of the Pacific”, and the famous Napali Coast on the North Shore.
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North America geographically includes Greenland (which is autonomously owned by Denmark), Canada, the USA and Mexico. The largest metropolitan areas include New York City, Mexico City, Los Angeles, Chicago and Toronto. North and Central America extends across all four climate zones of the world: in the north the continent reaches as far as the Arctic Circle and in the south as far as the tropics.
Kauai – Our flight to Lihue, car rental & our hotel (USA)
Today we made our way from the island of Oahu to Lihue at Kauai, our 2nd Hawaiian island.
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Today we wanted to explore the island of Oahu with our rental car and drove from our Hotel Maile Sky Court in Waikiki to Diamond Head.
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For today we had planned to visit the Pearl Harbor Memorial and Downtown Honolulu. For this purpose, we went from our city hotel in Waikiki by local bus directly to the Pearl Harbor Visitor Center. This route takes just over 1 hour.
» Read the full blog postHonolulu & Waikiki Beach – Our arrival in Hawaii (USA)
After almost 2 months on a world trip we left the American Continent today and flew further west to Honolulu in Hawaii… 12,000 kilometres from Frankfurt at the other end of the world.
» Read the full blog postLas Vegas – A short stopover in the gambling metropolis (USA)
After 7 weeks in South America and 2 weeks in Central America, Las Vegas was the last stop of our trip on the American Double Continent. From here we go on to the other side of the earth. In the end, from our point of view, there are two useful ways to travel from America to the West. Either in the south in Chile via the Easter Islands or in the north via Hawaii. We chose the way over Hawaii …
» Read the full blog postCancun – Relaxing at the All-Inclusive Resort (Mexico)
We had chosen Cancun for the end of our Yukatan round trip, because there are some very good and cheap flights to the USA and on the other hand we just wanted to relax 2 1/2 days in an all-inclusive resort and not have to worry about anything 🙂
» Read the full blog postCancun – Wreck Diving in the Caribbean with Aquaworld (Mexico)
Since this had not worked with the diving in Belize due to health reasons, we wanted to do 2 more dives in Cancun. Our NYX Hotel Cancun recommended the diving center Marina Aquaworld, which had 2 dive sites to allocate for the next trip.
» Read the full blog postThe Mayan site Tulum & Snorkeling with turtles (Mexico)
Today we made our way to our last Mayan site of our Yucaatan tour early in the morning. The ruins of Tulum can be found directly on the beautiful Caribbean beach of the Riviera Maya.
» Read the full blog postCenote Samula – The Underwater Cave in Valladolid (Mexico)
After visiting the Mayan site Chichen Itza in the morning we drove back to our hotel, checked out and after that our journey continued to the east. Our current destination is the city of Tulum on the Gulf Coast of Mexico.
» Read the full blog postChichen Itza – The ruins of the Mayan site on Yucatan (Mexico)
Today we drove to the Mayan site Chichen Itza, certainly the most famous ruin on the Yucatan Peninsula, shortly after the opening.
» Read the full blog postThe city of Merida & the flamingos of Celestun (Mexico)
Today we had planned two ventures: on the one hand we wanted to look a little in the morning at the center of Merida and in the afternoon we wanted to go to Celestun on the Gulf of Mexico, because there is a lagoon with thousands of Cuban flamingos here 🙂
» Read the full blog postThe Mayan Ruins of Edzna & Uxmal on Yucatan (Mexico)
Today we had two other Mayan ruins on our agenda: Edzna and Uxmal.
» Read the full blog postThe Mayan ruins Of Kohunlich & the Old Town of Campeche (Mexico)
On our tour through Yucatan, we are especially looking forward to getting to know some of the most famous Mayan ruins of Mexico. These definitely include Chich̩n Itza, Uxmal, Tulum and Edzna Рbut today we start with the slightly lesser-known Mayan town of Kohunlich and a subsequent visit to the old town of Campeche.
» Read the full blog postBy ferry from San Pedro (Belize) to Chetumal (Mexico)
Today we took the sea from San Petro in Belize to Chetumal in Mexico.
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