Easter Island - Climax of Mystery

Easter Island was meant to be a pit-stop. Simply turned out to be the most intense place I've experienced in my life. The most isolated piece of land on the globe sweats mystery, intensity, mysticism...As for landscape: volcanic. In every respect...

Get the feeling of riding a bike surrounded by wild horses, aiming in the horizon at 15 giants statues facing the ocean...Simply no words for it...

Please help yourself and get a glimpse.
1- As an Album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/72057594128381891/

2- As an Slideshow (there is a timer you can set passing upper part of the pics)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/72057594128381891/show/

New Zealand - In the Hands of Mother

I've done it. Experienced the happy-hippie life. Bought a van, that I called home. Decorated it, and launched the cruise...My garden ? A shore, a field, a forest...Whatever was the mood of the day.

The lesson New Zealand offered me, I wish I could give it back to all of you as a simple download on this blog. A mind-set everybody should be entitled to lock and cherish. An absolute, unconditional, non-questionable respect to the power of Nature. This country isn't about humans. Only very few of them crossed my way. It's been true silence, living like an hermit, mesmerized everyday by a Nature's showcase. Perfection.
As cheesy as it will sound, my friends, I felt everyday like her son. Like we were all its siblings. She is our Mother. Of us all. As much as we like to look down at it, she decides, breeds and feeds. Walk in a forest, once, slowly, and just listen. It breathes. It moves. It grows. It sleeps...As alive as we are. If not more. And being in her arms, for so long, felt safe and warm. Well. Warm. You see what I mean...

To Laura, her housemates, Tracey and her family for the human dimension of the discovery...

For once, the pictures aren't about people...She deserves it.
1- As an Album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/72057594106746613/

2- As a Slideshow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/72057594106746613/show/

Tahiti / Moorea - Lost Paradise

Tahiti has unfortunately been a missed appointment. I was planning to stay for a longer while on lost paradise, but friends can't wait. Especially the ones getting married. I'll call it a date anyway, and will come back. I have to.

Postcards don't lie. Women, beaches, mountains are pristine. Flowers around necks, and lying on the sand. Nobody moving beyond first gear...Palmtrees...The whole drill. Short album on this one. Simply a teaser.

1- Album
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/72057594127536694/

2- Slideshow
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stefworldtour/sets/72057594127536694/show/