Thanks for the memories. Lived there for a year and realised climate change isn’t the problem but rubbish and motorbikes looked like they doubled when I was there adding to there so called problem . Beautiful people and loved every second but came back that politics and aid money grabbing is what we see on the media. Yes I’ve become a sceptic.Thanks again😢
This is one of the best videos I've ever seen filmed in Tuvalu. Such a great perspective of the main island as a whole in its authentic form. My brother and I will he journeying to Tuvalu summer 2024
Thanks for posting this! I am planning on doing a similar ride around Lake Lugano in a couple of weeks. How did you find the drivers / traffic? I'm used to riding in the USA, so am used to pretty bad/hostile drivers. Thanks again.
I’ve been to the US, but never cycling, so can’t compare. There is traffic, in some places a bit more heavy, but Swiss drivers are very familiar with and friendly for cyclists. I’m sure you don’t have to be worried about traffic.
Estaremos fazendo esse trajeto mês de março 2024, achei que para entrar em Mônaco somente sem bike,iremos sair de Cannes ate San Remo e voltar para Nice,desejo muito passar por Mônaco. Pode me passar mais dicas?
I'm not sure if I understood your message correctly. I didn't have any issues to get to the Monaco and cycling around. There was no problem with that at all, and no border control.
Monaco is a Perfect Police state ,cameras are at every corner to view all the passers by and once they think you look different ,the Police hunts you and interrogate you for why your are there ! They are highly paranoid and protecting the interest of the Wealthiest creatures on Earth in there ..
A very small and beautiful place. Also really green, and wherever there isn’t anything built healthy vegetation takes over. For some reason, not many people are out. Also why so much reliance on motor vehicles and western materials for this little and safe island? In Greece a few islands larger than this have successfully banned motor vehicles and non-Aegean architecture to preserve native culture, and Greece isn’t the best example of sustainability. I believed that if Tuvalu finds its own way it can become the place we all would like to live but we don’t.
That’s a long topic. Tuvalu is importing a lot of things and exporting nothing. Even vegetables are growing by Taiwan embassy project, not by the locals. Yes, I was very surprised to see so many motorbikes. Even more crazy, people sometimes going on a ride just for fun 🤷🏼♂️
Kiribati is definitely way bigger in the matter of population, and they have more roads as well. The road you can see on the video is the biggest and the longest road in Tuvalu, around 11 km.
Visited Funafuti in the early eighties as part of the crew of Britannia, lovely people, beautiful place, it looks a lot different than when I was there.
Cannot remember exactly which year but I joined Britannia in 1981, did the honeymoon trip with Charles and Diana, so was sometime after, I do have a photo that I took of two local women below a sign saying "To the Queen & Duke of Edinburgh welcome to Funafuti from the people of Funafuti".@@flutterapplespike1416
Visited several islands in the Pacific during that trip, and must say most of them were unspoiled and the islanders were the nicest people I have ever met even then, did check out google earth and was saddened with the changes, I wish we could have left them alone in their paradise and not ruined it. @@travelotime
Im planning to travel and maybe settle there if possible ,so i watch everything i can find related to this micro-nation . A few things that surprised me here are the existence of the tarmac road , the many motor-vehicles (and lack of bicycles) and also the lack of native architecture in the various buildings . These things detract from the beauty of the place .Westerners have clearly put their damn finger in destroying the native character of this place . Perhaps other atolls belonging to Tuvalu have been less affected by modernization
All things you mentioned are correct. I see Tuvalu as a “broken nation”, and it is not offensive. They have just a couple of kilometres of tarmac road and there is more than one scooter per family. Getting a bicycle is an impossible quest. Life is super slow there, and getting to the other atolls or even islets at the same atoll is not an easy task to do.
