Run by the Museum Victoria that preserves 16 million artifacts in no less than four galleries, this highlight is the home of more than 20 collections that are nicely arranged in the various galleries. Among these, the most striking ones are the Australian galleries, Children’s Museum Big Box, Forest galleries revealing the secrets of dinosaurs, Bunjilaka as the Aboriginal Centre, and the galleries of Science and Life, Travel, Te Pasifika, Mind and Body, and Evolution.

The rare, but the best spectacle here is of the nature that can be peeped via a digital set up. This tells about the impact of the biodiversity, digital technology, and geology on our vision. To experience this, be at the Science and Life Gallery where you can also explore the marine creatures, live bugs, and real skeletons of dinosaurs. Then, heed to the live description of the region’s tall forests that are the natural homes of plants and animals. Historians and cultural lovers will love the living Bunjilaka Aboriginal Cultural Centre that reveals all about the southeast area’s Koori community.

Know about those that you have never seen – the prehistoric animals via the ‘600 million years of Victoria’ exhibit where you can see creatures such as Anomalocaris, Muttaburrasaurus, and Tiktaalik. In the Melbourne Gallery, you can marvel at the Phar Lap’s mounted hide as well as a race horse during the depression era winning the Melbourne Cup. Do you want to know about your own self? Head to the Mind and Body Gallery where everything about the human body is exposed and also to the Evolution Gallery offering glimpses of the creatures as well as the exhibit on ‘Darwin to DNA’.

Get to know the history of Pacific islanders in the Pasifika Gallery, look into the Touring Hall for those mesmerizing international showcases, and stroll on the public spaces outside where many displays of the nation’s history are exhibited including the early computer called CSIRAC and Pygmy Blue Whale. Also see the offers of the stimulating Big Box meant for the kids of 3 to 8 years and wonder at the largest screen of the nearby IMAX Theatre, which soars up to eight levels with the state-of-the-art technology.

Admission fee

Adult: $8

Children under 16: Free

Extra charges: For some touring exhibitions

Timings

10 am to 5 pm daily, except Good Friday and Christmas Day.

Spot

Between Nicholson and Rathdown Streets.

Facilities

• Accessibility facilities
• Car parking with affordable prices
• Royal Exhibition Building
• Museum Shop vending toys, gifts, educational books, and souvenirs
• Museum café serving hot and cold items

Reaching to the museum

A car driving is suitable to reach here as there is an underground car parking accessible from the Rathdown and Nicholson Streets.

Alternatively, a tram can bring you here, which is numbered 86 or 96; otherwise, the City Circle Tram is also an option to alight at one of the Victoria Streets from where you must look for the marks for the Carlton Gardens.

One more option is of the train – the City Loop Train that takes you up to the Parliament Station after which you simply must look for the Carlton Gardens signs.

Suggestion

Take up the Visitor Guide that will ease your trip here with information of the major galleries and amenities.

Among all its unique as well as fascinating collections, what grabbed my attention was most ancient rotative steam engine in the world housed here. Made in 1785 by Watt and Boulton, it grabbed the honor of being the Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark before 25 years. I also marveled at the first steam engine called Locomotive No. 1 of 1854, which was the brainchild of Robert Stephenson. One more highlight is the famous Strasburg Clock Model of 1887, which was created by Richard Smith at the age of just 25. This talented man was a watchmaker and exactly replicated the Strasbourg astronomical clock of the Cathedral by just reading the description. Wow! Now, this is the real imagination and brilliancy – not seen, but the hands in coordination with mind moved in the precise way.

The Powerhouse museum also offers some great permanent exhibitions of which my favorite was the ‘Cyberworlds’ – a tribute to computers as well as connections. This is where you can marvel at the first computing machines along with the today’s latest designs. However, I also agree that the ‘Space’ exhibition is equally fabulous to explore. Go back in those glorious days when humans succeeded in solving out many mysteries of space. Isn’t that exciting? Well, also wonder at some Australian satellites as well a space-shuttle cockpit.

From this exhibition, follow a temporary subterranean walkway to be at the ‘Transport’ exhibit – a window that shows age old transport mediums. So, you can not only spot the horse-drawn carts, but also steam engines, flights, and miracles of the hybrid technology. Do not forget to see the Steam Locomotive No. 1243 at a modeled railway platform, which was the longest locomotive for 87 years in Australia. Just at the other side, there are highlights such as the Governor of the New South Wales’ railway carriage, real Central Railway Station board, a tram, last Hansom Cab, two leased locomotives called 3830 and 3265, motorbikes, a horse-drawn by bus, hanging planes (Catalina), the first plane of Flying Doctor Service (Queenair Scout), Sheffield Simplex car, and four shows of public transport.

Operational locomotives and live demonstrates brings the ‘Steam Revolution exhibition’ to life. The progress of steam power over 150 years is illustrated by the Boulton and Watt engine, traction engines, steam trucks, 1830s Maudslay engine, a Ransom, the horse-drawn pumping engine, and Jeffries agricultural engine along with some musical instruments such as the barrel organ.

For children, ‘Experimentations’ is the best zone in the Powerhouse museum. All credit goes to the interactive collection that features electricity, motion, light, magnetism, and senses. Other highlights are a chocolate making machine, Plasma ball showing currents, a hand-powered railway replica showing the use of electric current, and a prototype of the firetruck front with pedal-power. One more liked attraction by not kids, but one and all is the ‘EcoLogic’ section that reveals all about the environment challenges that badly affect us along with the methods to stop them. The top draw here is the Ecohouse wherein you can toggle with the factors of light and explore the ‘ecological footprint’ game and time-lined tree along with a horde of simulators.

If you are a great fan of movies and stars, the ‘Blockbuster exhibitions’ are just worth a watch featuring several items related to the charters like Star Wars and the Lord of Rings. See what the Science Meets Imagination display has to offer via its models, costumes, and props. Cultural as well as art lovers will love the Faberge exhibition, the Audrey Hepburn exhibition, the Treasures of Palestine exhibition, the Christian Dior exhibition, Diana exhibition featuring items of her ancestral home, Tribute to Kylie for her music and costumes, and the ‘Strictly Mardi Gras’ exhibition.

Timings

10 am to 5 pm

Entrance fee

$10 per adult, $5 per child (4 – 15 years).

About Coogee:

Coogee is the name of a beachside suburb that is part of the New South Wales state of Australia. It is also part of the south-eastern Sydney regions. Colloquially speaking, Coogee is often referred to as ‘the Coog’.

The Coogee Beach, Tasman Sea and the Coogee Bay lie towards the eastern end of this suburb.

The original name Coogee is said to come from a local aboriginal word ‘koojah’. Koojah stands for ‘smelly place’. This name was a reference to the decaying kelp that would often get washed up onto the beach. Although large quantities of the seaweed still get washed up onto the beach, they will usually be removed before they get a chance to begin stinking.

About Coogee Beach:

Just like the more famous beach of Bondi, the Coogee Beach also faces the Pacific. The beach can be best described as being smaller and cozier. There are baths that are located on the northern end. At the southern end of the beach lies the Ross Jones Memorial Pool and this is right next to or adjacent to the Coogee Surf Lifesaving Club.

During the summer and the winter, the beach is patrolled by surf lifeguards and beach inspectors.

A short walk from the beach and you’ll find a variety of restaurants, cafes, hotels and parklands.

It is a place of gorges, peaks, rivers, endemic flora, caves and endangered fauna. This region is perfect for an adventure traveler who wants to be in touch with nature on this particular trip of his/hers.

The region is recognized through the listings of the World Heritage and is part of the natural and cultural heritage of the world community.  The core area is said to have been listed on the World Heritage List back in 1982, and it got this listing based on fulfilling 4 criteria for natural and 3 criteria for cultural. By those means, the Tasmanian Wilderness has satisfied more criteria than has even been satisfied on the World Heritage Site List.

The Character of This Region – Intriguing:

The region was inscribed as a World Heritage Site owing to its unique character. For even the most adventurous travelers, this region might sound like it’s forbidden. But remember the age old adage of ‘Forbidden fruit is always sweeter’.

By those standards, a trip to the Tasmanian Wilderness may be well worth the trouble. Fret not, for some part of the region has been converted to national parks and the others are called reserves. These parts of the wilderness are accessible to the general public.

The Flora and Fauna and Natural Heritage:

This region is one of the largest conservation reserves that there is in the whole of Australia. The region provides for an amazingly pristine environment for the plants and animals to grow here. Some of these creatures or plants are exclusive to the region and cannot be found elsewhere in the world. There are other species that have become extinct as far as mainland Australia is concerned. But a few of them continue to thrive in this natural refuge.

Geoheritage:

This entire region is said to be a combination of a complex arcade of geological features. It is said to be the most significant of all the landscapes that one can find in Australia. There are a lot of different soil types that are said to be available here and they, put together, make for a high conservation value. The WHA (World Heritage Area) is said to get affected by the most diverse of them processes that form for land-forming in Australia. The Tasmanian wilderness is said to be a region that is made up of mountain peaks that endorse more drama than there is in a Broadway musical and the deepest of the river valleys and gorges that are best described as spectacular and these views look even more gorgeous set in a setting with rivers that twist their way through the whole wilderness.

The oldest of these rocks are said to date back to the Precambrian period, which was about a billion years ago. The quartzites and the quartz schists are said to have been formed from the most spectacular of the mountains that are part of the WHA.

Traces of siltstones, sandstones and conglomerates that date back to the times of the Cambrian and the Ordovician periods. They contain a number of ancient fossils that belong to marine life. These fossils would be silent testimonies to a legacy that speak of a distant past of this region when it lay beneath what could be best described as a shallow sea.

There are fluctuating sea levels, especially during the times of the glaciations and this would provide for conditions that lead to the development of a number of coastal features that included the development of coastal dunes.

Given the chemical weathering of the limestone deposits of the region, there has been a profusion of caves, leading to an extensive cave system that has formed here over the years.

Some of the deepest caves of Australia are found in the region here. Most of these caves will reveal formations that are beautiful in their own rights.

Wildlife in South Australia:

The wildlife in South Australia is extremely intelligent and knows that the midday heat isn’t the best time to be taking a stroll outside. So if you do expect to be spotting any wildlife, then it would be advisable to look out for them at around sunset or sunrise.  This is the best time for wildlife spotting.

If you do manage to catch a full-sized male kangaroo bouncing across a field, it can be quite a mesmerizing sight.  Be extremely careful when you’re driving across at night time or at dusk time.  You wouldn’t want to bump into one of them, though. We aren’t sure about who will undergo more damage, the car or the kangaroo?

The birds will be prominently audible and easily visible.  It is quite commonplace to see eagles swooping over the tops of the trees. Wild camels are also commonly sighted here and these were originally brought here during the 19th century.

The wild brumby horses are quite commonly seen as are the emus, kangaroos, lizards and dingoes.

Painted Hills of Anna Creek:

Sandstone monoliths, dry creek beds, rolling red sand hills and wide open plains are some of the diverse landscapes that wait for you when you’re here. When you span across the entire open space of the desert, you will notice small sections of the ground are covered with desert flowers; and these spring up at patches where you might least expect them to. These offer you with sudden spurts of pink, purple, yellow and red; and are known to show up in the form of wattle, parakelia and desert daisies.

The best way to experience the Anna Creek Painted Hills would be to view it from the air.

Coober Pedy and the Landscape:

If you have a fetish for opals, then the town of Coober Pedy is said to be an amazingly marvelous place. This is said to be the world’s most prolific center for opals. The sweltering temperatures here could even go above 100 degrees during midday. It is for this exact reason that most of the population is said to have built their houses slightly underground. These are natural mounds of earth which are called dugouts and the temperatures will stay comfortable all through the year round.

This literal melting-pot is said to be comprising of a population which is made up of 50 nationalities.  Mining is said to be the only mode of livelihood in the region and people will claim small mine stakes throughout the area.

William Creek:

This is the town, which may look like just a dot on the map of Australia; but now again; it is home to one of the oldest pubs in the whole of Australia. It is around 125 years old.

The population of this town is a mere 7 people; and William Creek has been considered for long to be the smallest community in Australia; and perhaps in the world. In spite of the fact that the population may only include 7 people, it would still have over 100 people jammed inside the pub on a regular Friday night. This is adequate proof of how the locals from the neighboring areas and tourists love this spot.  The ceilings and the walls of this pub are decorated with mementos that have been left behind by the hundreds who visit the pub.

The book is the story of Liz, the author, who recently divorced, sets out on a journey that she had envisioned in her head so many times; but had never gotten down to doing. Earlier, she’d had a plethora of reasons that had held her back – her job, her husband, financial issues, etc, etc. But when she does finally make that trip, all alone, it opens up a lot of avenues for her.

There is something about doing a trip alone. If you are a woman who wants to try a trip alone, or you have female friends who you think would be up for it, we give you the lowdown on places around the world that you could probably visit

1)     AUSTRALIA

Oz comes in on top of the list, for its laidback culture, and panoramic views. The locals seem extremely used to the idea of a single woman out there, vacationing, doing her thing. No one seems to bother you. On the bright side, they are pretty friendly and are extremely hospitable.

2)     CANADA

Given its topographical features, Canada opens up a world of possibilities for the adventurous solo woman traveler. You have a myriad of activities to choose from – rock climbing, wilderness backpacking, trekking and a lot more. Plus, its proximity to America makes it an even better bet.

3)     PERU

Women tend to love Peru for its historical and cultural landscapes. Must see places would include Lima, the capital city of Peru; and Cusco, which is considered the historic capital of the Inca Empire and was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Solo women travelers have spoken highly of the place and have testified that the people were extremely welcoming and there were no untoward incidents that took place.

4)     INDIA

In her book ‘Eat Pray Love’, India is one of the places that the author visits (other two being Indonesia and Italy). India is generally a preferred hotspot for women who want to get in touch with their spiritual inner-self. With the recent increase in terror attacks, trips to India have lost their usual charm. But the trips are still worth it, claim those who have returned from trips to this exotic land. One issue with India remains that single woman travelers are bound to get unwanted attention from the men there. But, as seen in the past, most of it is harmless; but irritating nonetheless!

5)     MIAMI

Well, we are not geographically challenged, and are fully aware that Miami is NOT a country, unlike the other names that made it to this list. But it very well deserves to make it to this list. It is the ultimate destination if you’re a ‘PARTY GIRL’. Miami Florida is where a number of celebrities live; vacation and party. Excitement is constantly ringing in the air. Whatever your taste, you will find a bar or a pub or a club in Miami to fulfill it. In order to fully enjoy the party scene here, it is essential to be living in South Beach. You can choose a hotel in the area, which makes life simpler for you.

Okay, so we’ve given you the lowdown on our top five favorite hotspots. So if you’re single, loaded and ready to go – wait no more. Plan a trip to one of these spots right away! Have fun, girl!

The Great Barrier Reef which is listed in the seven natural wonders of the world and it has been declared as State Icon of Queensland. A major and very popular Australian traveler destination, the Great Barrier Reef magnetism draws thousands of travelers and tourists from all over the world.

Location of the Great Barrier Reef:

The Great Barrier Reef is wonderful natural structure whose stretch is measures to some 1,250 miles, which is located along northeast coast of the Queensland in the Coral of Australia. The Great Barrier Reef is bounded by 208,000 kilometers of the water. The water is natural breakwaters which are acting as buffer between strong waves of Pacific Ocean and Australia’s coast.

How Was The Great Barrier Reef Formed?

According to marine geoscientists, they have discovered the probability that reef which is in range of size of the Great Barrier Reef must have taken somewhere 50,000 to 100,000 years to form. The Great Barrier Reef is actually is series of some three thousand individual reefs with some thousand islands, all together forming the Great Barrier Reef. Approximately geologists have discovered some four hundred species of corals which have been found in Great Barrier Reef. The Great Barrier Reef is known to have in its ecosystem some myriads of two thousand different varieties of fish. Interesting thing noted is till date, 4000 species of mollusk have already been identified.

To explain how was the Great Barrier Reef formed is simple terms it could be explained as The Great Barrier Reef was formed because of rise and fall of the sea levels throughout final years of the Ice Age.

Geologists believe 1.2 million years ago, when there were some drastic changes in climatic conditions. That is when polar ice caps begin to melt; this led to increase in sea levels. There are records which are evidence for that sea levels rose and also fell at least twenty four times. And because of this continental shelf of Australia was then flooded, which in turn led the corals to growing on edges of the shelves and corals keeping with the pace with rising of sea levels which led to the formation of the Great Barrier Reef.

Basically for the formation of reef there is need of ample amount of sunlight, also reefs grow only in clean and shallow water. Reefs are made up from any of these three substances that are rock or coral or sand. The temperature that is favorable for the development of reefs is 18 degree Celsius to 30 degree Celsius.

The Great Barrier Reef is formed from the Coral. A sea animal called polyps, when forms the colonies which makes the coral reefs. Coral polyps resemble a sea anemone, which has many tentacles that is around its mouth. Countless polyps join collectively to form a colony. The Great Barrier Reef’s made of such many colonies of coral forming into reefs. Every coral polyp is linked with an alga. The photosynthesis process carried out by an alga, plays a helping the polyp in making a coral skeleton. These skeletons are actually made up of a substance called aragonite, which is form of the calcium carbonate. The coral skeletons quickly form and are foundations on which any coral reefs are built. These coral skeletons are sealed jointly by calcium carbonate that’s produced from algae. Thus the reefs like the Great Barrier Reef are formed because there is an association between a single-celled algae plant and sea animal polyps fusing together.

The Great Barrier Reef is one such destination; which every individual will surely want to explore once in their lifetime and those who have been to The Great Barrier Reef find it as most mesmerizing place in the world. Great Barrier Reed is located in Queensland, off coast of the Coral Sea, in Northeast area of Australia; beautiful coral reef is structure which is mainly constituted of tiny living organisms. Not only this, The Great Barrier Reef’s ecosystem gives home to myriads of remarkable species, such that one would get amazed with kind of the world existing beneath sea. The Great Barrier Reef magnetizes billions of tourists all over world, all year round with the pull of its natural beauty. Read on to know many interesting facts on the Great Barrier Reef and which will give you in-depth view about splendors of amazingly beautiful structure.

Facts about the Great Barrier Reef:

• One of most interesting facts on the Great Barrier Reef is that its structure can be actually seen from the outer space! Amazing isn’t it!
• This is the world’s largest coral reef, and it’s made up of something like nine hundred islands and approx of some three thousand coral reefs!

• The Great Barrier Reef is visited by largest populations of Dudongs. Dudongs is an animal which is classified as a marine mammals and who is found to be related to elephants.
• Experts believe that the Great Barrier Reef’s formation started to form around eighteen million years ago. Great Barrier Reef is formed because of various climate and environment changes, the reefs, which are seen today, are the ones which have grown over earlier reefs, which were formed during the last Ice Age.
• Taking home any piece of coral reef is a punishable act by the law and it could sentence you a great fine and even a jail and on your passport a remark. This is done in order to protect reefs from being damaged by such acts.
• The Great Barrier Reef is abundant wide diversities of life. Studies have discovered an incredible numbers of species, which even fall under endangered bracket.
• Whales:30 species
• Beautiful Birds: 215 species
• Sea Turtles: 6 species

• Sharks and Stingrays: 125 species
• Pipe Fish: 49 species
• Sea Snakes: 17 species
• Fish:1,500 species types
• Great Barrier Reef’s every cubic meter has scores of diverse species of animals and plants! Explaining the wide diversity of life!
• The Great Barrier Reef has one of oldest species of the fish that is the Red Bass which can live for at least 50 years and even more when compared to other species.
• Some largest of the giant clams have been found here and more do exist. One of largest pearl that was found in clam here was apparently sold in New York for whopping 10 million dollars!
• In the year 1981, the Great Barrier Reef was listed as a World Heritage Site.
• The Great Barrier Marine Park is responsible for protection of major portion of the reef, primarily to prevent misuse of place, from over fishing and also from the other human impacts due to tourism industry and also environmental effects.
• Tourists, planning to visit and wish to explore the Great Barrier Reef area by boat must make it a point that they plan it in advance as there are only limited numbers of trips allowed into water.
• The Great Barrier Reef stretches out over 344, 400 square kilometers.

Great Barrier Reef is one the most amazing place in world to be seen, don’t give it a miss in your life!

Threats to the Great Barrier Reef:

Climate Change:
This can be considered to be the most significant threat to the Great Barrier Reef. Great Barrier Reef is interlinked of web of marine life. Because of the changing temperatures of ocean waters due to climate changes, there has been Mass coral bleaching which have occurred in summers of three years that is in year 1998 and in 2002 and 2006 but geologist now have predicted that it will become annual happening. Coral bleaching is when symbiotic alga which is inside polyps die, this causes polyps to turn into white and in due course die Affecting the living life of reef that is some fish who prefer certain temperature they are seeking new habitats, which in turn is increasing chick mortality in the predatory sea birds and also the Sea turtle’s habitat is getting affected which in turn is effecting their population.

Skeletal Eroding Band:
this is a disease of the bony corals that’s known to be caused by protozoan Halofolliculina corallasia which is affecting thirty one coral species.

Crown of thorns:
Well this is a type of Starfish- crown-of-thorns which is predator of coral polyps. Well if these starfish have an outbreak then they can devastate the reef, and that’s happened once in 2000 when the outbreak caused a loss of sixty six percent of live coral, which was a sample reef used under study. These outbreaks, have been believed to be occurring in a natural cycles, which then gets worsened with poor quality of water and if there is over fishing of those who are the predators of starfish.

Fishing:
Well over fishing is one such cause which is badly affecting the ecology and is threats to the Great Barrier Reef. And if there is fishing of key species like Giant Triton, in that case it disrupts the vital food chain of this reef’s life. It also increases water pollution from the boats. Also there can be accidental catching endemic and endangered species like dolphin and sea turtles also these causes’ loads of habitat destruction because of the nets, trawlers and anchors.

Pollution:
pollution and declining quality of water are threats to the Great Barrier Reef. Also the run off from the rivers coming from northeastern Australia which pollutes the reef, also farm runoffs brining in fertilizers and pesticides and its been exacerbated coz with the loss of coastal wetlands.

Global Warming and the Great Barrier Reef

Global warming is also added into the threats to the Great Barrier Reef and to coral reefs world wide. Global warming is also causing the ocean temperature to increase, and thus causing coral bleaching. The coral ecology is bound to get actually damaged if increase in sea levels and also due to increase in frequency of tropical storms. It’s necessary to curb global warming for preventing the destruction of coral reefs. Thus there is need to reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, steps to reduce global warming necessitate being full on a war footing.

Other threats to the Great Barrier Reef include Shipping, oil Spilling and even the tropical cyclones contributing together to increase the threats and danger to the very beautiful Great Barrier Reef.

Best time to visit

While the Island has a tropical climate that favours tourism throughout the year, the best time to visit Niue is from May to October. These months have an average daytime temperature of about 27 degree Celsius and there is drier as compared to other months.

How to reach

The Niue International Airport is served only by the Air New Zealand. It serves weekly between Auckland and Niue Island. You can also opt for the water-route to Niue Island and sail a yacht there.

For getting around the Island, you need to rent a car, bike or a cycle as there are the means of public transport are close to nil here.

Attractions and activities

The small Island of Niue in the big Pacific Ocean has its own charm. Here’s what you should be doing in Niue.

• Plunge deep into the waters here and enjoy diving. Some of the popular dive sites here are the Snake Gully and Ana Mahaga. Among other marine creatures, you will find yourself swimming with the sea snakes.
• Snorkel in the clear waters that surround the Island. The reef pool at Hikutavake is perhaps the best place to do so and here is where the sea turtles wait to greet you. Some of the other snorkeling locations of Niue Island are Vaitafe, Avaiki, Laimu and the Avatele Bay.
• Explore the caves of Niue Island. The sea caves of Togo Chasm and Talava Arches make for an interesting tour. The underwater caverns and tunnels here are also good diving and snorkeling spots here. Other caves worth touring here are the Avaiki Cave and the Palaha Cave.

• Go fishing. The abundance of red bass, wahoo, tuna, sailfish and marlin make fishing fun here.
• Go for whale-watching tours. The warm waters around the Island of Niue pull the humpback whales in the months of June to October, who nurse their newborns here mostly around the Avatele and Tamakautoga Bays.
• Go Hiking in Niue. The Island of Niue offers some interesting treks to walk through. The trails range from rainforests to reef walks of Hikutavake. Take a local guide for the same as they will show you how the locals live here. The Huvalu Forest Conservation Area is worth hiking too.
• Worth a look are the paintings of Mark Cross at his gallery in Alofi. Cross is an artist of New Zealand who is inspired by the Island of Niue, has married here and lived here on and off.
• Tour the tropical rainforest of Togo Chasm – home to caves, coral pinnacles, palms and other scenic charms.

• Tour the Matapa Chasm. Swim and snorkel here amidst see cliffs and in a deep pool.
• Worth a tour is Alofi – home to the Women’s Club Town Hall with its handicraft shop and explore the Alofi Market on a Friday.
• Get closer to the culture of the Niue Island. There is a ceremony or a celebration here every month to witness which you need to have prior permission.

The 269 kilometers square Island of Niue is the world’s largest coral Island. If you are seeking an Island that’s isolated and yet has great diving and snorkeling sites and if you do not insist on spending time by the beach, this Pacific Island of Niue is where your search should end.