Many Adventures of a Nomadic Poet A young poet with Asperger's makes travel his passion, and away he goes...

About kiwiaoraki

Photo Galleries

• Back of Bourke [32]
• Grampians National Park [65]
• Country Victoria [20]
• Doha [73]
• Byron Bay [124]
• Oslo [198]
• Tromsø [17]
• Abisko [21]
• Narvik [58]
• Senja [51]
• Hønefoss [43]
• New York [98]
• Rakiura Track [53]
• Wallis [394]
• Kilkenny [77]
• Castlewellan [29]
• Ards Peninsula [135]
• Dublin [134]
• South Coast [35]
• Maldives [367]
• Buenos Aires [96]
• Neuquén [44]
• San Carlos de Bariloche [75]
• Ruta 40 [73]
• Perito Moreno Glacier [44]
• El Calafate [17]
• Torres del Paine [77]
• Puerto Natales [15]
• D'Hainaut Island [142]
• Hydrurga Rocks [95]
• Port Lockroy [112]
• Lemaire Channel [113]
• Neko Harbour [217]
• Useful Island [66]
• Portal Point [171]
• Mikkelsen Harbour [132]
• Halfmoon Island [123]
• King George Island [162]
• Drake Passage [55]
• Beagle Channel [37]
• Ushuaia [156]
• West Falkland [192]
• East Falkland [143]
• Stanley [188]
• Punta Arenas [123]
• Santiago [28]
• Dynamo Hut Track [54]
• Barossa Valley [21]
• Philadelphia [34]
• Vermont [7]
• Montréal [66]
• Trans-Canada Highway [24]
• Saint-Pierre [195]
• St. John's [108]
• Easton & Bethlehem [26]
• Central Grande Terre [89]
• Nouméa [62]
• Adelaide [78]
• Wairarapa [14]
• Manono [29]
• Aunu'u [13]
• Tutuila [79]
• Tokelau [199]
• Savai'i [141]
• 'Upolu [192]
• Lord Howe Island [373]
• Maryborough & Tiaro [75]
• Stanthorpe [17]
• Taree [3]
• Port Arthur [66]
• Hobart [8]
• Mt. Field National Park [19]
• New Norfolk [44]
• Overland Track [204]
• Northwest Tasmania [54]
• Launceston [64]
• Canberra [57]
• Nullarbor Plain [68]
• Fremantle [29]
• Perth [56]
• Macau [59]
• Hong Kong [82]
• DMZ and Kaesong [92]
• Nampo [83]
• Pyongyang [332]
• Beijing [61]
• Daegu [16]
• Busan [110]
• Lombok [111]
• Ben Lomond Track [68]
• Central Plateau [43]
• Mornington Peninsula [53]
• Melbourne [310]
• The Kimberley [74]
• Arnhem Land [6]
• Kakadu National Park [169]
• Darwin [60]
• Bali [739]
• Prambanan [96]
• Yogyakarta [70]
• Jakarta [19]
• Sumatra [184]
• Singapore [50]
• Batu Caves [88]
• Kuala Lumpur [63]
• Kyoto [98]
• Kobe [18]
• Ichiu [96]
• Iya Valley [55]
• Wakimachi [131]
• Mt. Fuji [70]
• Tokyo [177]
• Kondalilla National Park [16]
• Katikati [38]
• Norfolk Island [2087]
• Mount Aspiring National Park [71]
• Mount Cook Village [102]
• Golden Bay [45]
• Napier [263]
• Rarotonga [341]
• Oregon [36]
• Vancouver [102]
• Snoqualmie Falls [22]
• Redwood Forest [64]
• Rocky Mountain National Park [53]
• Fort Collins [66]
• Tucson [35]
• White Sands [34]
• Ruidoso [98]
• Roswell [16]
• San Antonio [37]
• Eastern Sierras [163]
• İstanbul [334]
• Wondo Genet [63]
• Awasa [33]
• Las Geel [16]
• Berbera [43]
• Hargeisa [41]
• Harar [182]
• Kombolcha [21]
• Lalibela [120]
• Maychew [95]
• Danakil Depression [261]
• Mek'ele [63]
• Tigray [18]
• Axum [100]
• Debark [32]
• Simien Mountains National Park [277]
• Gondar [187]
• Blue Nile Falls [53]
• Lake Tana [52]
• Bahir Dar [123]
• Addis Ababa [152]
• Guadelupe Canyon [134]
• Tijuana [10]
• Zion National Park [340]
• Constanza [92]
• Puerto Plata [42]
• Sosua [41]
• Caraballo [361]
• Tubagua [222]
• Santiago de los Caballeros [364]
• Santo Domingo [212]
• Antigua [68]
• Semuc Champey [62]
• Tikal [85]
• Flores [87]
• Xunantunich [78]
• Barton Creek [64]
• Caye Caulker [72]
• Belize City [17]
• Quiriguá [43]
• Copán [93]
• La Entrada [7]
• Suchitoto [117]
• Morazán [170]
• Marcala [57]
• Tegucigalpa [16]
• Eastern Honduras [12]
• Estelí [165]
• Jaco [21]
• Parque Nacional Carara [40]
• Beachy Head [127]
• Bocas del Toro [272]
• David [27]
• Boquete [155]
• Cahuita [97]
• Idaho [189]
• Seattle [190]
• Grand Cayman [3]
• Corn Islands [94]
• Managua [38]
• Isla de Ometepe [153]
• El Coco [6]
• Santa Clara and Trinidad [80]
• Valle de Viñales [106]
• Havana [173]
• Tortuguero [90]
• Volcán Irazú [23]
• San José [235]
• East Coast [30]
• Rees-Dart Track [223]
• Motueka [154]
• Great Barrier Island [128]
• Niue [240]
• Cook Strait [67]
• Kepler Track [118]
• Copland Track [42]
• Central Otago [80]
• Clyde [95]
• Milford Track [235]
• Stewart Island [135]
• Southland [216]
• Dunedin [99]
• Oamaru [46]
• Taranaki [93]
• Coromandel Peninsula [246]
• Waiheke Island [135]
• Tonga [214]
• Luxembourg [42]
• Rhine Valley [39]
• Bad Windsheim [53]
• Liege [14]
• Brussels [38]
• Amsterdam [43]
• Eindhoven [15]
• London [307]
• Huacachina [78]
• Nazca [57]
• Cañon de Colca [190]
• Arequipa [80]
• Lake Titicaca [166]
• Machu Picchu [118]
• Inca Trail [180]
• Cuzco [92]
• Valle de Ayacucho [65]
• Huancayo [109]
• Lima [38]
• Yosemite National Park [50]
• Volcán Arenal [57]
• Granada [162]
• Monteverde [138]
• Blue Lagoon [33]
• Jökulsárlón [193]
• Skaftafell National Park [180]
• South Iceland [179]
• Golden Circle [112]
• Kulusuk [94]
• Reykjavik [187]
• Fiji Islands [136]
• Gold Coast [18]
• Noosa [28]
• Australian Outback [309]
• Alice Springs [40]
• Brisbane [105]
• Queensland Coast [29]
• Cape Tribulation and Daintree River [125]
• Green Island [65]
• Fitzroy Island [32]
• Cairns [55]
• Mackenzie Country [123]
• Milford Sound [135]
• Queenstown [522]
• Westland [470]
• Arthur's Pass [7]
• Christchurch [55]
• Kaikoura [58]
• Wellington [102]
• Taupo [58]
• Roturua [116]
• Waitomo Caves [29]
• Bay of Islands [124]
• Auckland [247]
• Blue Mountains [32]
• Sydney [474]

Where I've been

American Samoa   Antarctica   Argentina   Australia   Belgium   Belize   Canada   Cayman Islands   Chile   China   Cook Islands   Costa Rica   Cuba   Dominican Republic   El Salvador   Ethiopia   Falkland Islands   Fiji   Germany   Greenland   Guatemala   Honduras   Hong Kong   Iceland   Indonesia   Ireland   Japan   Luxembourg   Macau   Malaysia   Maldives   Mexico   Netherlands   New Caledonia   New Zealand   Nicaragua   Niue   Norfolk Island   North Korea   Norway   Panama   Peru   Qatar   Saint Pierre and Miquelon   Samoa   Singapore   Somalia   South Korea   Sweden   Tokelau   Tonga   Turkey   United Kingdom   USA   Wallis and Futuna Islands  

Favourites

• Favourite Nomads [17]
• Who's Favourited Me [3]

Highlights

• Turkish Delight, on a Moonlit Night
• Dental work in Costa Rica
• Rees-Dart Track
• On top of frustration, a car, and the world. One crazy story!
• Kiwi spotting
• My 24th! A Big Leap
• Cultural Granada
• Golden Circle: Þingvellir, Geysir, and Gullfoss
• Greenland
• Sunrise at Uluru

Near Misses

• Viking Ship Museum, Bygdøy, and...OH 3%@^
• Sin City, UGH!
• Emergency Landing!

My trip journals

• Qatar Stopover (current)
• Northern Lights
• Irish Roots
• Maldives
• Quest for Antarctica
• Newfoundland & Saint-Pierre
• French Flavour of Nouvelle-Caledonie
• Samoa, Tokelau, and American Samoa
• Asia 2015
• Living in the Land Down Under
• Southeast Asian Archipelago
• Japan Not-so-Dirty-30
• NZ vision journey
• Coffee journey: Ethiopia and Turkey
• Volunteering in the D.R.
• Central America trek
• England with Maria
• Panama travels
• US Travels
• My big OE in Aotearoa
• Ticos, Che, and Nicas
• My First Journey
• Europe: Trials & Tribulations
• Andes, Incas, and Llamas: Peru
• Land of Adrenaline & Beauty: New Zealand
• Journey to Two Lost Worlds: Costa Rica, and Nicaragua
• My Return to Australia: Reef, Rainforest, and Rock
• Land of the Midnight Sun: My Travels in Iceland