Funafuti is getting a new airport terminal building, which looks like it will be a lot more modern and spacious than the existing one.  It is being built next to the existing building.

Apparently the Vaiaku Lagi Hotel (the only hotel on Funafuti Atoll) has moved inland. It's not the building that's moved, but land reclamation has pushed the shoreline out.

Just before New Year, a strong storm went through Funafuti.  It looks like gale force winds caused damage to trees, branches and buildings, and a storm surge caused sea water to flood roads and houses,...

Up near the Funafuti port by the side of the road sits an old relic of a bulldozer, rusting away.

The storm surge from Cyclone Pam caused significant damage in Tuvalu earlier this year.  I came across a story on the Japanese language website of Tuvalu Overview about Cyclone Pam causing the loss of Vasafua...

I came across the Pick the World weekly blogging event, with Chouett asking other bloggers this week to post about Tuvalu, having been randomly selected from among the nations of the world.  

The “borrow pits” were created during World War Two when the American military “borrowed” earth from several sites around Fongafale Island to construct the Funafuti Atoll runway.  These are now filled...

It looks like storm surges from Cyclone Pam have done some significant damage in Tuvalu, including flooding, washing away infrastructure and crops, and displacing communities.  

Tuvalu only has one airport, on Funafuti Atoll.  By international standards, Funafuti Airport is rather basic.  There's no fencing around the runway, the island fire truck runs up and down the runway...

How to dispose of old vehicles must be a real problem in a tiny country with few resources and an even smaller amount of land.  I found piles of old cars stacked up in a narrow space between the road...

Probably not many people have ever received a postcard from Tuvalu, but Tuvalu postage stamps are quite the collectible items if you're a philatelist. 

This is the Princess Margaret Hospital, the medical facility in Funafuti. I found a recent first hand, and really well written report of a traveller's experience of getting sick and being treated at the hospital....

Happy New Year!  2014 happily brought unexpected success for one of the photos appearing on Tuvalu Odyssey, with its publication on front cover of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report.

How did a Filipino jeepney end up plying the streets of Funafuti Atoll in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a long way from home?  This was the question I asked when I came across it, parked in the back...

Welcome to tuvalu-odyssey.net.  This site hosts the photographic travelogue of my journey to Tuvalu in April 2010.  It showcases over 300 photos around Funafuti Atoll.