2 Hidden Destinations in Oceania

Solomon Islands

Destinations

Artificial Islands of Lau Lagoon

Solomon Islands · Malaita Province

In a remote Pacific lagoon, entire communities live on hundreds of intricately built artificial islands, handcrafted from coral and rock over centuries, defying the rising tides.

For centuries, the Kwaio people of Malaita in the Solomon Islands have been building their homes on artificial islands in the Lau Lagoon. Ea...

Skull Island (Nusatupe)

Solomon Islands · Western Province

On this remote island in the Solomon Islands, ancestral skulls of ancient warriors and chiefs are carefully preserved in eerie rock shrines, standing guard over a lagoon steeped in history.

More than just a macabre curiosity, Skull Island (Nusatupe) is a sacred traditional burial ground where the Roviana people of the Western Pr...