Bouganville Island Travel

Bouganville Overview

Bougainville is the largest island of the Solomon Islands archipelago, and part of Papua New Guinea. The island is about 1000km from Port Moresby which is the capital city of Papua New Guinea. The island enjoys a tropical monsoon season with few extremes of temperature and weather. The best time to visit the island is from April to November.

Bouganville Main Attractions

Bougainville is blessed with amazing natural beauty. Around 160 islands surround Bougainville that make excellent picnic spots or a place to camp out. The reefs are teeming with fish of all sorts. The island is very active with volcanoes. You can view at close range the smoke, steam and sulfur vents. This view is spectacular at early mornings. The landscape of the island is the best you can experience.

Bougainville is enchants tourists with great black sand beaches. The water never has an extreme condition making the surroundings of the island a good habitat for many marine animals. The reefs that surround these beautiful beaches make good breeding habitats for most of the sea creatures that tends to provide more food for the local birds of the island.

Bouganville Activities

Bougainville caters tourists with activities such as scuba diving, snorkeling, game fishing and swimming as well as bushwalking, caving expeditions, a six-hour downhill hike from Panguna to Arawa and a three-day jungle trek to the summit of Mount Balbi, a dormant volcano. Relics of German and Japanese occupation abound throughout Papua New Guinea and visitors will have no trouble finding them. The wreck of Admiral Yamamoto’s plane in the rainforest of Buin is perhaps one of the most interesting.

Bouganville Accommodation & Dining

Bougainville offers a bit more simple accommodation. However, tourists will be blessed with great service and a warm welcome. They will give you quality lodging for your luxurious vacation and the things you might need for your stay in the island. Bougainville restaurants offer integrated French, Indian and Chinese cuisines. The unique attributes of the restaurants are incorporating local exotic ingredients in the traditional international cuisines.

Bouganville Shopping & Nightlife

Bougainville nightlife is influenced by different cultures. Western, Eastern and African cultures find themselves mixed up as night falls. The nights are very loud and exciting especially during different festivals. There are many traditional dances and performance all over the venues. The reputation of the island for being a shopping paradise is reinforced by the variety and the quality of the products. One can find many markets, shopping centers, specialized stores, craft shops, art galleries as well as many stalls proposing the local products, of great quality at bargaining prices.