Some friends of my parents are packing up and moving across the world to a tiny place called Tokelau, a territory of New Zealand in the South Pacific Ocean.

It's a tiny place made up of of three tropical coral atolls which combine for a land area of 10 km2 and the population is only around the 1400. It's a beautiful tropical paradisaic looking place.

Their parents are native Tokelaun, but it will be a completely different way of life for them though. Tokelau have been slower with developing technology, preferring a more basic and less technology-led way of life. In 2003 Fakaofo became the first part of Tokelau with a high-speed Internet connection, which was financed by Foundation Tokelau.

Tokelau gives away a lot of .tk domain names for free to gain publicity for the territory, and this has allowed the nation to gain enhanced technologies, such as more computers and Internet access for Tokelauan residents.

It sounds like an amazing way to live, but more of a holiday for me. I love laid back life, but I also love my iPhone and playing games on my r4i gold! I'd definitely go for a holiday there though!

Photo: NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center (Flickr)