Good bye, Australia...hello (or hallo as they say in Pidgin), Solomon Islands. We were met at the airport in Honiara, Guadacanal, Solomon Islands with orchid and frangipani leis -a really nice touch for such a poor country. It took us about 3 hours to fly from Brisbane -this is one of the places Martin and Osa Johnson lived and filmed about 90 years ago so I can’t imagine how long it took them to get here or what it was like (not much has changed judging by what I have seen so far). The hotel, probably the best, is pretty dismal (just read some traveller reviews about it and it's a good thing I didn't read them before I came). Luckily, we’re only here for 48 hours.
View from the Mendana Hotel.
Required reading: "From Kansas to Cannibals: The Story of Osa Johnson"
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