Honiara Image

I must admit that Honiara is not the most impressive town in the Pacific. You always hear the common dirty and dusty town complaints from visitors and even people living there themselves. Whoever is responsible for making it clean and undusty is very much relaxing. But I won’t go into that. Instead I will show you some of the things that Honiara have and other towns and cities lack.

First of all Honiara is relatively a very young city maybe about 60 years old ( I’m measuring this with my grandfathers story who are some of the first ones to work and reside in the town- during the time when it was still safe to fish and eat from the towns front sea). History likes to say, however, Honiara is established after WWII and officially became capital city of  Solomon Islands in 1952. Ok history lesson over, lets look at some pictures that made Honiara…well Honiara.Well there are still some reaming old WWII building right in the heart of the town, as shown by the pictures here of their somewhat semi water aluminum tank look. I think people are still using them. Ok this sentence is just to acknowledge the photographer so check his site for more fotos and information. I accidently discovered them while looking for photos exactly of those. There is also the Matakniko bridge, still not short of WWII antiques , I think for those of you just discovering Honiara it is now clear that this town is not your modern metropolitian city. Try to copy it but cant so I’ll just give you the link of the Mataniko bridge here. Hey rememeber the old central market?

I think I have to get myself a digital camera so much to show from the town and very little or too many touristty pictures of Honiara in the internet, while thats good its a bit shallow.