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Kon Tiki trip re-created

September 4, 2006 on 4:55 pm | In Tiki News |

OSLO, Norway (AP) - All his life, Olav Heyerdahl heard about the amazing voyages his famous grandfather, Thor Heyerdahl, made aboard his primitive balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki.

Now he knows what it was like.

Almost 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 Kon-Tiki voyage, the younger Heyerdahl on Monday recounted his own adventure tracing his grandfather’s wake across the Pacific.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6030300,00.html