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We’ve checked in at Taro Island–quick, simple and very pleasant! We contacted customs and immigration ahead (aleonard@customs.gov.sb, samson.korai@commerce.gov.sb), they sent a form each to fill in before arrival. Once we got there we wrote to them again, went to the police station where Alex and Samson checked us in, so no running around searching for offices… We paid 500 SBD fees and were glad to have exchanged currency in Vanuatu as there’s no ATM in Taro. Peter from biosecurity came aboard, but just quickly filled in a form. What a friendly welcome to the Solomons!
Taro has a daily veg market, plenty of minimarkets, but no supermarket. They have rubbish bins and a garbage truck, but when we saw the open garbage disposal next to the airfield (What happens with the rubbish? Nothing, it’s just left there…) we decided to hold on to our rubbish bags for now.




Beetelnut stands everywhere, so the smiles here are bright red like in PNG

Rubbish is a big problem

It’s collected

But then deposited in an open dump next to the airport, so we decided not to add to this pile…