Solomon Islands: Kolombangara – Kolombangara Forest Reserve

Kolombangara Island is almost perfectly round and is a comically shaped stratovolcano, 9km in diameter. The volcano is called Mount Veve and it is basically the entire island. Very few people live on the island and the entire central part with the mountain and elevation is the protected natural reserve – Kolombangara Forest Reserve. Getting up here takes an hour in the back of a flatbed truck over rough roads, but it’s totally worth it – the forest is home to rare flora and fauna and stupendous panoramic views. It’s a world of orchids of all shapes and sizes and bizarre insects – weird spiders, stick insect, red and black grasshoppers, and strange centipedes. Plus colorful shiny skinks, frogs, mushrooms, jungle fruits and nuts. A biologist’s paradise in other words!
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