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We visited Buka despite travel warnings and felt really welcome in a safe, clean and friendly town! Pics of our 2 weeks here: the bustling channel and town, the "posh" island Sohano and a road trip we did with our friends.

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1/34: The channel between Buka Island und Bougainville is at least as busy as Venice with ferries and taxi boats ;-)
2/34: We anchored in a side arm of the channel out of the worst of the current and traffic.
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6/34: To go ashore we hailed taxi boats
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10/34: The sign may be old, but not the message: Buka's the cleanest town we've seen in the Western Pacific!
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14/34: Good food and drinks come with lots of rules at the Kubul Beach Bar ,-)
15/34: The hospital would need funding for staff, meds and some renovation and expansion...
16/34: Copra industry
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19/34: We walked up to Kubu to the department of justice ...
20/34: the modest presidential palace (better to spend money on the country than the palace anyway)
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23/34: We walked around pretty Sohano Island
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27/34: Our local friends picked us up for a roadtrip along the surprisingly good coastal road with some sights like caves and streams
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