Kakabona
Kakabona (Kakambona) is a peri-urban suburb on the fringe of Honiara, Solomon Islands and is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of the main center and west of White River on the Tandai Highway.
Kakabona (Kakambona) is a peri-urban suburb on the fringe of Honiara, Solomon Islands and is located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of the main center and west of White River on the Tandai Highway. Kakabona borders the Honiara City Council ward of Nggosi. Refugees from Bouganville settled following the conflict.
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Worth seeing in and around Kakabona
2 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Solomon Islands National University
The Solomon Islands National University was established in 2013 by the Government of the Solomon Islands.
6 km · university of Solomon islands · Wikipedia - 02Honiara Solomon Islands College of Higher Education
Honiara Solomon Islands College of Higher Education is a university in Honiara, Solomon Islands; apart from the University of the South Pacific, which has a satellite campus in the country. It is located in eastern Honiara, south of Honiara Golf Club, just to the southwest of King George VI National High School.
6 km · university in Honiara, Solomon Islands · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kakabona
- Airports
- Honiara (HIR), 17 km
- Port Vila → KakabonaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Port Moresby → KakabonaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Lae → KakabonaTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
No local-transport research exists yet for Kakabona
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Kakabona. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundThe ferry travels through the Florida Islands channel which is worth seeing and there's a high chance you'll see plenty of flying fish if you look off the front or sides of the boat.
- Get aroundThe catamaran ferry is a former Auckland Harbour ferry so is not designed to be ocean-going.
- Get aroundThe ferry has plenty of comfortable seating, air conditioning and a big flat screen which shows films during the journey.
- Get aroundYou can buy drinks and snacks on the ferry although it's best to buy this on the way out from Honiara as supplies run low once the boat is heading back.
From Wikivoyage: Solomon Islands, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.
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