Share Your Warm & Windy Holiday Experience's....
Seabreezers! I hope that you are all enjoying the Aussie summer. I am 12 months young in the sport of Kiteboarding and loving it. I am keen to travel once the cooler months set in and would like to start some planning... If anyone can share their Travel experiences it would be greatly appreciated: wind rating, warmth rating, accommodation rating (pools, restaurants etc) cultural experiences etc etc. Local or international trip advising would be great.
My First Trip: My partner and I spent 2 weeks in the Cocos Keeling Islands (off the WA coast) thanks to Jen @ Zephyr Kite Tours & Mike form KiteThrills and generally loved it. A pool side cocktail on the non-wind days however would have gone down a treat.
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Lets see where we go!
I would love to hear some stories too. We had a great trip to fiji last year. I am dreaming about rodrigues for this winter- anyone been there ?
Rogdigues is great for flat water, but difficult to get out into the waves (even getting out there for a surf is difficult). You need to organise boat access and that is not always possible. The resort is really nice in a backwater, quiet kind of way. Both my wife and I had a great time there, but wouldn't go back as there are much easier to get to flat water destinations and I'd rather go somewhere where it is easier to get into the waves. If we were back in that part of the world, we'd stick to Mauritius itself. Good waves, great flat water. A lot busier than Rodrigues though.
thanks for the info on rodrigues- I'm not quite ready for waves yet so flat water sounds good to me- where would the easier to get to flat water spots be?
Azwaa- Fiji- was great for us as we have 2 young kids and we found fiji to be great for kids- we were there last week of july(not much wind) and first week of august(great wind) we spent the first week at a resort which was fantastic in a resorty kind of way- we didnt get out on the water there but we did see people kiting near plantation resort. we spent the second week on nananu-i-ra- very laid back - not a resort by any means but nice house, great food, good company- more of a backpacker scenario with drinks and conversation in the evenings- and lots of other things to do in case of no wind. we did feel we got to experience some fijian culture too which we really enjoyed.
The year before that we were in spain at the golf de roses- there is a mistral centre there, a cheap campsite on the beach, plenty of wind in july when we were there- its near Girona and Barcelona so quite a good spot if you are heading to europe.
