PIG Notes

PIG Notes

Chuuk

  • Diving in the lagoon to see WWII wrecks

  • Hike to Wichon Falls (created by ghosts) full of petroglyphs 

  • Camp on Fananang Island to see the stars

  • Picnic on Falos Island

  • Looking for love sticks

  • Eat Oppot

  • Pwipwi = friend

  • 3017 miles 

Yap

  • Diving at Slow and Easy to see Manta rays and Mandarin Fish

  • Go see stone money

  • Night Market in Yap

  • Eat Tinono 

  • 3740 miles

  • Mogethin = Hello

Kosrae

  • Hike the Menkac ruins

  • Hike to the Tafunsak Gorge Waterfall where we will see a Large Bramble

  • Stargazing at the Ute-Walung Marine Park

  • Kayaks through the Mutunnea Mangrove Channel

  • Eat an oven cooked in a Um, an underground oven

  • Lenwo = Hello 

  • 2466 miles

Pohnpei

  • Kayak at Sokeh’s Lagoon

  • Visit the Nan Madol Ruins

  • Camp and Ant and Pakin Atolls

  • Night diving to see coral

  • Kaselehlie- Welcome

  • 2780 Miles


Papua New Guinea 

  • Attend Milne Bay Canoe and Kundu Festival to watch the Salian Race and Sing-Sing dance.

  • Attend Hiri Moale Festival and see traditional canoe called Lagatoi

  • Learn the Wantok system

  • Eat Sago Dumpling with fish

  • Yu stap gut? = How are you?

  • Spend Kina on the island 

  • 1119 miles 

  • Hike the Kokoda Trail

  • Bird watch for the Flame Bowerbird

  • Watch the Goroka Show for the dance with the Handmade clay mask

  • Camp at Varirata National Park to see Wallabies. 

  • Eat some Saksak 

  • Speak Tok Pison

  • Spend Kina


American Samoa

  • Scuba diving in Fagatele Bay for Black Tip Reef Shark 

  • Go crabbing at Lion’s Park 

  • Eat a meal cooked in an Umu

  • Talofa = Hello

  • Tofa = Goodbye

  • 2263 miles away

  • Snorkel in Pago Pago Harbor to see the Butterfly Fish

  • Hike on Tutuila Island to see the Hong Kong Orchid


French Polynesia

  • Go to Matira Beach on Bora Bora to see Parrot Fish

  • Visit Papeete Market to pick up some vanilla 

  • Learn how to do an Ahima’a, which is an underground oven

  • Eat Poisson Cru 

  • Mauru’uru = Thank you! 

  • Find a pink sand beach on Tikehau island

  • Scuba diving in Tuamotu to see a Leopard ray.

  • Go to La Cloche de Hina where the Princess Hina brought in tides

  • Stargaze on Mount Aorai  

  • Eat Poulet Rafa cooked in an Ahima’a

  • Ia ora na = Hello

  • 2422 miles


Western Samoa

  • Snorkel at Amanda Beach to see the Purple Tube Sponge Coral

  • Hike O Le Pupu-Pue National Park to see the Manumea

  • Watch a fire dance

  • Night fishing at Lalomanu Beach to see the Bluefin Trevally

  • Travel by canoe

  • Eat some Oka

  • Fa’afetai = Thank you! 

  • Talofa = Hello

  • Savai’i Bay to see the Humpback Whales

  • Go snorkeling at the Pālolo Deep Marine Reserve to see Coral reef

  • Night fishing at Upolu bay for Yellow fin Tuna

  • Go to a Fiafia night to see fire-knife dancing

  • Eat Palusami cooked in a _______

  • Spend some Tala

  • 2241 miles 


Palau

  • Hike Tiki Nature Reserve to Ngardmau Waterfall to see a Flycatcher

  • Snorkel at Devilfish City to see the Soft Coral

  • Go to the Koror Night Market to hear traditional Chelitakl chanting

  • Go night kayaking at the lagoons of Rock Islands to see Bioluminescent Plankton 

  • Eat some Demok Soup

  • Ungil Tutau = Good Morning!

  • 3314 miles


Guam

  •  Go to the Valley of Latte to see Chamorro Sinahi Necklace and Latte stones

  •  Hike Asan Ridge Trail and see Nanåsu Half Flower and the Japanese WWII guns

  •  Stargaze at Gun Beach to see Sagittarius

  •  Go to the Tao Tao Tasi Show to see Fire Dancing

  •  Eat Keleguan

  •  3335 Miles

  •  HÅFA ÅDAI = Hello