Day 04 – Nauru (25 May, 2000)
Nauru is a tiny island, existing mainly for its phosphate mining. It is also now infamous as Australia’s controversial off-shore immigrant processing location. Not a lot happened here during the day we brought the Olympic Torch Relay – as you can see from the airport arrival ceremony!
And the journey on the phosphate train seemed to take quite a long time for such a tiny island. And of course we ended the day at… the phosphate mine…