Having dreamt about Vanuatu most of my waking life as a place of absolute beauty and paradise defining beaches, I was rather taken a back by how I was eventually treated by their incompetent immigration system. After having joined up with a local politician following my crossing into the Solomon Islands, I was able to …
So, you wanna cross the border between Papua New Guinea to Solomon Islands, but are not planning on flying or using your own yacht? Its quite possible to do this using local boats, now that the situation in Bougainville has become much more calm. It also seems that the immigration laws in the Solomons have …
Apart from the rats haunting the Barike Lodge in Rabaul, my stay there was great and gave me a welcome opportunity to explore the lost city of Rabaul. I spent a full day at the vulcano that took out most of Rabaul in 1994; Mt Tavuvur, and on the ruins of the old city. I …
While my plan is to mostly use my two feet and local transport, its good to have a backup plan, and so I have been looking into several different flight options in the South Pacific region, and it’s quite the jungle, to figure out what islands are actually connected, by flights. Using both Airtreks.com, which …