We are in Pohnpei for the Australian Volunteers Meeting. There is one a year and all volunteers from the North Pacific gather. We have had a great time with fun company and wonderful local foods. Also a couple of excursions including the 6 waterfalls hike. This took 7 hours and was arduous. Actually really, really tough is a better description. Lots of scrambling up and down rocks that were really slippery. We had local guides who made excellent walking sticks from tree branches.
We slipped and slid along the riverbed visiting and jumping in all the falls. The guides did not sip and they positively ran across the rocks - wearing thongs. We all dressed like a Kathmandu catalogue but still looked like hippos! One of the guides carried a child that could not make it for 4 hours!
So a wonderful day.
Pohnpei is lovely. I have been before but it is such a friendly place, very local (v few tourists). it does have some distinctions from Palau - mainly the smell of pig farms. But you get used to that. back to Palau today, then to Yap.
