Okay, the weekend is not really something to get excited about in Honiara,except sleep in and bad hangovers. Apart from those it is usually a busy time for families ( talking about extended families here not nucluer) to get those pending chores, tasks and shopping done. Not to forget getting some quality times on beaches or just simply lazing in the house. This is of course all done in Honiara style becuase it is the most Weekend things to do in Honiara in 6 most Weekend things to do in Honiara.
6.Beer Drinking Sessions. Night Clubs and DUI
4:30 pm on friday is when the unofficial weekend in Honiara starts. The mood kicks in instantly, and if one is infectious with the idea of some beers and bars, and whatever else that may come after midnight, then he or she is part of the current night life social crowd heading to corner bottleshops,blackmarkets,resturants, bars,nightclubs and hotels ( some prefer mobility by hiring taxis with loud musics) searching for toxication and escapism. This is becoming a fast and popular way for Honiara social and weekend night scences, although there is not much of night clubbing here pointing in the hip and glomour scene, it is the fun that matters for the weekend in this crowd. Over here we called it 6 to 6…can you keep up?
Tip: For those who have been quite out of touch or pocket reach for the past months the current top 5 Nightclubs and bars for weekend in Honiara are 5) Moon Light Club- Recently Opened, Live bands, check for parking space though 4) Top 10 Night Club- Big crowded and attracting young just-clubbing crowds 3) Airport Motel Bula Bar- great music, outside of town but cautious on transport going up and returning 2) Flamingo Bar, Honira Hotel- Not really a night club but clean and classy as Honiara can get! 1) Aloha Night Club- latest and currently happening
5. Picnics on West Honiara Beaches
Picnics are big events for Honiara families and I’m not talking Picnic baskets and mats like those picturesque family laughing together on a mat popular in Western magazines, usually big groups of family, relatives and friends get together to organise such events. There are the pots of cooked food ( especially rice) BBQ plates, firewood, half of the house kitchen utensils,towels and mats packed usually on open back of trucks and then speed off out off Honiara to the sea until late evening, when exhausting mass of people and vehilce journey back into Honiara for another week.
4. Long rides along roads and making unexpected visits to houses of firends and families
This is almost cultural. Unexpected visitors and visiting is quite common in Honiara folks, but this seems to occur more during weekends! Maybe that hangover from the previous night out with your social night club gang made you missed the family planned picnic .So you decided just then to visit a friend…
3. Attended Church Services on Satuday and Sunday
Honiara is the heart of all the Christian Denomination clusttered together in one singl town. While some have their sabbath on saturday, there are also the popular sunday services thatgave sundays its holy day feeling more than saturday. Although its legal to work and operate on sundays in Honiara dwellers prefer to put aside any labourous task on sundays in order to just chill out more.( except maybe organise a picnic)
2. Spend weekends with other relatives..or you have some spending weekeds at your house.
A great way to get away from the same old people living at your home is to spend weekends with other friends or relatives and people in Honiara love spending sometime away from their own houses. Everybody in Honiara experiences some weekend away from their own home. It is quiet refreshing to return after the weekend with a feeling of coming back and discovering home again.Or it could be that your aunty is a better cook then your mum or that your friends house stock more meat and chicken than your bare kitchen.
1.Hit the Central Market
The ultimate reason why people get up 7am on saturday in Honiara is to hit the central market for fresh local produce before it got overcrowded and foods overpriced later in the afternoon. Who in Honiara doesn’t go to the market on saturday? There is the politician and his second wife, that young teenage girl uncomfortable to be seen in the market, those roaming lius, flies and garbage of course, but everybody comes to the market on weekends to restock, just stocked, bargain, find rare delicacies, fresh vegetables, fish and fruits or just be seen as going to the markets because thats what they should have been seen as doing on a saturday weekends. It is busy and over crowded but we still like to shop there!
