The highlight of the three weeks was without a doubt the four days we spend in the island of Kauai. Kauai is the oldest islands of Hawaii and also known as the Garden Isle because of the flourishing nature found here. Its one of the wettest spots in the world and the massive amounts of water has shaped the rock into what is called pali in Hawaiian. On this picture you can see the palis:

Fernando had gotten hold of permits for us to hike the Kalalau Trail. The trail follows the the massive windswept Na Pali coastline overlooking lush green valleys and towering rocky cliffs that rises almost 1200 meters to the deep blue pacific below. The trail is 11 miles (18km) long and winds it way along the cliffs in a very varied landscape with rain forest, desert and rocky cliffs. The trail is almost never straight but moves up and down, in and out. The view is spectacular and around each corner awaits new wonders.

It was hot and humid to do the hike so we drank a lot of water. Luckily there are plenty of streams and creeks on the trail so we could refill our bottles.

Also there were plenty of guava trees and a few mango trees so we could get some fresh fruit as we walked.

It took us 8 and a half hour to walk in and the reward was amazing. I was very busted and enjoyed just chilling on the beach for the rest of the day.

We had our camp in shade of trees close to the waterfall were we got fresh water and showers when it got to hot to sit in the sun.

And the beach was of course beautiful.

We spend a day on the beach and the hiked back the next day. Here was what we looked like after having walked back to civilization.

A truly amazing trip.

Im back in Prague after three fantastic weeks in Hawaii. We did a lot of different things over there. I took about 350 pictures that I am working on uploading and tagging plus some videos which I might edit together. There will be a couple of posts about the trip coming up later.

I went over to visit friends from IAESTE Michigan 2005-2006. Here is the gang we got together, from left: Alberto, me, Ivan, Femi and Fernando (who got a job in Hawaii and hosted us).

• Home in prague. Finally5:30 PM Aug 23rd, 2007
• Its 2 am in warsaw – dont really know what time my brain think it is. We hope to get on a train at 7am so another 5 to go. Out drinking…2:07 AM Aug 23rd, 2007
• In warsaw now after going through LA and paris. Last leg of the trip is a train to prague. Luggage still in paris – that sucks!10:08 PM Aug 22nd, 2007
• Our trip is over and we are on the way back to prague. The total travel time will probably be 40 hours. Damn. We’ve reached LA so far.3:10 AM Aug 22nd, 2007
• Yesterday we went to Volcanoes National Park and saw how the Big Island is still growing as the lava continues to pour out.8:20 PM Aug 18th, 2007
• We made it to Big Island picked up a car and have just arrived at our camp ground.6:54 AM Aug 16th, 2007
• Just got up. Its raining this morning. We are on our way to the Big Island today.7:14 PM Aug 15th, 2007
• Category 2 hurricane flossie is heading to hawaii. Most likely it will stay 50 miles off so we should be safe.10:56 AM Aug 15th, 2007
• Sunset beach all day. Chilled. Got drunk. Swam. Chilled. Life’s good.7:16 AM Aug 15th, 2007
• Yesterday ivan arrived from minneapolis. Good to see him and now we are five 7:46 AM Aug 14th, 2007
• Kalalua beach is a paradise. A big beach, camping in the shade of trees and a waterfall for fresh water and shover. Mountains surround t …7:29 AM Aug 14th, 2007
• The hike was awesome. Hard but awesome. After 11 miles of walking up and down valleys along the shore we came to the kalalua beach.7:19 AM Aug 14th, 2007
• Back on oahu after four days on kauai hiking. Gotta sleep10:55 AM Aug 13th, 2007
• Found an Internet cafe today – lovely!2:08 AM Aug 10th, 2007
• Went to pearl harbour today to see the Arizona battleship. The ship got a direct hit and sunk with more than 1100 of its sailors7:02 AM Aug 9th, 2007
• Went to kaulai today and rented sea kayaks. Sailed not to some islands. Nice day.10:07 AM Aug 8th, 2007
• Spend the day yesterday at waikiki beach. Beautiful place.8:04 PM Aug 7th, 2007
• I bought a new camera today. Its another canon – those guys seems to work for me. Look out for pictures when i get online (that could be …6:42 AM Aug 6th, 2007
• Yesterday we went to waimea beach on the north shore of Oahu. During winter this is one of the best surfing spots oh the world.5:13 AM Aug 6th, 2007
• Today has been chilled. We went into chinatown for breakfast and went to the market to get some fish and seafood for tonight.4:49 AM Aug 6th, 2007
• Jetlag got me us at 5.30. After breakfast we took a trip around oahu and ended up at a beach were we hung out the rest of the day.8:54 AM Aug 5th, 2007
• Finally we got out of the airport. Of course our suit cases was not there. But fuck that we are hitting the bars now B-)10:20 AM Aug 4th, 2007
• After 24 hours, 11 time zones and maybe 2600 miles we are in hawaii. Aloha!8:37 AM Aug 4th, 2007
• Oh Its great to be back in US. We are still only in seattle airport but still its great to be back in The Land Of The Free.1:33 AM Aug 4th, 2007
• Chasing the sun around the world. Left paris at 13 in seattle at 15. Hope they got good coffee here12:02 AM Aug 4th, 2007
• Oui oui we are in paris. Airport food is robbery.12:00 PM Aug 3rd, 2007
• Two days ago was the anniversary of the warsaw rising. The citizen stood up and fought the nazis. Intersting history6:41 AM Aug 3rd, 2007
• Yesterday gosja gave us a tour of the town. First on foot and them driving at night. The city grew on me. Like to check it out again.6:39 AM Aug 3rd, 2007
• I meet gosja a couple of weeks ago on the canoe trip. She is a graphical designer studying tv production.6:33 AM Aug 3rd, 2007
• Rise and shine. Its 4.30. After a couple of hours sleep we are back up ready for the big travel day.4:37 AM Aug 3rd, 2007
• Cruzing warsaw. Cool place but not much different vibe than prague/cntr europe.10:18 PM Aug 2nd, 2007
• We are staying im warsaw for the night. Flighing out tomorrow at 7 5:27 PM Aug 2nd, 2007
• We arrived im Warsaw. Gosja picked us up from the station and we are on the way to her place.5:19 PM Aug 2nd, 2007
• Hunter s. Thompson: The Rum Diary is my literature for the ride as we cross the border to poland1:21 PM Aug 2nd, 2007
• Yesterday i went with the IAESTE gang. A couple of them are leaving prague and will not be there when i get back. Goodbyes are always a  8:37 AM Aug 2nd, 2007
• First leg of the travel is from Prague, Czech Republic to Warsaw, Poland. An 8½ hour train ride.6:40 AM Aug 2nd, 2007
• The bags are packed. Tomorrow (Thursday) morning at 8 we are taking the train to Warsaw and the day after (Friday) we jump on the plane.11:36 PM Aug 1st, 2007
• Hawaii is approaching way too fast. I’m not ready! Leaving for Warsaw in 30 hours!12:44 AM Aug 1st, 2007

So things are starting to get in place now for this years holiday and boy, am I looking forward to this one! Today the ticket finally arrived as you see.

The trip has been in the works for the past year since Fernando got a job as an engineer in Hawaii. Ever since then the big goal has been to make a trip over to visit him with the gang.
Luckily we have managed to get five of the guys together for this awesome holiday.

Today we have been laying out the plans for what we are going to do. Good times. We were sitting in four different time zones and making the plan in Google Spreadsheet. Fernando sitting on Hawaii, Ivan in Minneapolis, Alberto in Tennessee, and Femi and me in Prague. The plans include a trip to Na Pali Coast, Volcanoes NP and camping on The Big Island.

Its going to be good times with good people