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TRAVELLER OUR REGION Kepirohi Waterfall … there’s good swimming at the base and it’s only a five-minute walk along an easy trail from the road. PICTURES: SIMON WILLIAMS, POHNPEI VISITORS BUREAU, ROBERT UPE, RICHARD KOTCH 34 Paradise – Air Niugini’s in-flight magazine
TRAVELLER OUR REGION Pohnpei is one of the rainiest places on Earth and has 42 spectacular waterfalls fuelled by the massive precipitation. NEW ROUTE Port Moresby Pohnpei 2655 km FLIGHT TIME 3 HOURS, 25 MINUTES Waterfalls, legends and surf Robert Upe discovers mysterious ancient ruins, waterfalls, jungles and one of the world’s great surfing spots at Pohnpei, in the remote Pacific Ocean. It’s a hot Sunday morning and there’s hardly a dog stirring in Pohnpei, but the churches are in full song. As I walk along the broken concrete paths of the island’s main town Kolonia, I pass Baptists, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Catholics and Protestants going about their worship. There’s hardly a car moving on the roads and many of the shops are closed. The equatorial sun is so hot, that every now and again I pause in the shade of a palm tree to sip water from a plastic bottle. Even the butterflies have come to a standstill. Pohnpei is close to the Equator, one of four island states that make up the Federated States of Micronesia. The island has come onto the travel radar in recent times, not only because Air Niugini has commenced flights there from Port Moresby, but because of the World Heritage listing of Nan Madol. These mysterious ancient ruins have, imaginatively, been called the Pacific’s equivalent of Peru’s Machu Picchu and Cambodia’s Angor Wat. The 900-year-old ruined city was used as a religious centre by the kings of Pohnpei and is built of massive basalt blocks and columns – some weighing 50 tonnes – on 92 islets on the eastern edge of Pohnpei. To explore them, you need to be prepared to get your feet wet as you wade through canals that separate the islets. Exactly how the heavy stones were moved into location is a mystery, though islanders believe it was done by magic. There have been theories that they were hauled by raft, but my guide tells me recent tests have shown that the rafts of the time would have sunk under such weight. There’s some magic in our arrival at Nan Madol, too. My guide had told me earlier that if I am March – April 2017 35
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LIVING SPOTTED IN Samson Narokobi
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LIVING MOVIES BY GREG CLARKE Beauty
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STRICTLY BUSINESS OIL LNG productio
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STRICTLY BUSINESS STRATEGY A finger
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STRICTLY BUSINESS INSIDER INTERVIEW
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STRICTLY BUSINESS MINING Wafi-Golpu
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BRAIN GYM PUZZLES The Paradise Quiz
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