Solomon Islands Travel Guide 2026: Honiara, Guadalcanal WWII Heritage, Marovo Lagoon and East Rennell
Browse more guides: Solomon Islands travel | Oceania destinations Solomon Islands Travel Guide 2026: Honiara, Guadalcanal WWII Heritage, Marovo Lagoon and East Rennell I planned my Solomon Islands trip the way I plan most off-grid Pacific trips, by reading until the place stopped feeling abstract and started feeling reachable. The country sits east of Papua New Guinea and northeast of Australia, a scattered chain of 992 islands across roughly 28,400 square kilometres of ocean, home to about 700,000 people. I came for three reasons that kept circling back in my notes: the Guadalcanal campaign of 1942 to 1943, the UNESCO-listed East Rennell raised coral atoll, and Marovo Lagoon, often called the world's largest saltwater lagoon. I left with a fourth reason that no guidebook had prepared me for, which was the easy warmth of people who speak Solomon Pijin and switch to English mid-sentence without losing a beat. This guide pulls together what I learned across two weeks of travel a...