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The bucket-list things to do — and who runs each one.
Here’s the bucket list for your day ashore: the most extraordinary thing to do at each stop, who runs it, and how to book it direct — so you can weigh it against your ship’s excursion and pick what suits you.
Stand at the smouldering base of one of the Pacific's most active volcanoes — Mount Tavurvur, which famously obliterated Rabaul in 1994. Walk across hardened lava fields with a private expert guide for a truly primal, bucket-list encounter with Earth's raw power.
Descend into the vast network of hand-dug Japanese wartime tunnels that honeycomb the Rabaul hills, then visit the Kokopo War Museum's haunting collection of Pacific theatre artefacts. This is one of the great WWII sites of the entire Pacific — raw, authentic, and almost entirely unknown to the wider world.
Plunge into Simpson Harbour to explore one of the Pacific's most spectacular wreck-diving graveyards — dozens of Japanese warships, transports and aircraft lying in warm, crystal-clear tropical waters at diveable depths. For certified divers, this is an absolute must-do bucket-list experience.
Meet the Tolai people — the proud, ancient custodians of the Gazelle Peninsula — in a private cultural immersion featuring traditional song, dance, tambu shell money rituals and the awe-inspiring Duk-Duk ceremonial masks. This is living culture at its most powerful and rarely witnessed by outsiders.
The grandest panoramic sweep of Rabaul's astonishing landscape in one seamless private journey — from the ruins of the old town buried under 1994 volcanic ash, to the Observatory, the stunning harbour overlooks and the lush Gazelle Peninsula highlands. Essential context for everything else you will see in port.
Join a private speedboat charter into the sparkling Bismarck Sea where pods of wild spinner and bottlenose dolphins are regular companions, and slip into the warm water to swim alongside them in their natural habitat. A profoundly joyful, utterly exclusive bucket-list moment in one of the world's least-visited seas.
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