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The bucket-list things to do — and the private, expert-led way to do each.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, and the private, small-group, or expert-led way to make it yours — your own pace, real access, none of the crowd.
Swim ashore to the tiny island where JFK survived his WWII PT-109 sinking, then snorkel technicolour reef untouched by mass tourism. One of the Pacific's most charged historical encounters.
Descend to the hauntingly intact Japanese WWII freighter Toa Maru — trucks, motorbikes, sake bottles and all — resting at 45 m near Gizo. One of the Indo-Pacific's top-rated wreck dives.
Spend a half-day at an exclusive eco-resort on Lola Island, snorkelling pristine reef, kayaking mangrove channels, and joining a guided kastom (traditional) village walk. Authentically remote luxury.
Visit the sacred Skull Island — an islet adorned with ancestral skulls of past chiefs — with a village elder as your guide for an intimate ceremonial experience found nowhere else on earth.
Escape to a virtually undiscovered white-sand beach fringed by swaying palms and lapped by warm turquoise water — Gizo's most beautiful shore, with a private boat entirely to yourself.
Lift off above Gizo's island-studded lagoon in a private helicopter — jade atolls, shipwrecks visible through glass-clear water, and WWII battle sites spread below you. The most spectacular perspective in the Solomon Islands.
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