Tarawa

Worth seeing in and around Tarawa

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.

1. 01
   Bairiki National Stadium

   Stadium

   200 m · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Sacred Heart Cathedral

   Cathedral in South Tarawa, Kiribati

   3.4 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Getting to Tarawa

Airports

Bonriki (TRW), 20 km

• Majuro Atoll → Tarawa

  672 km · quickest by air, 6h 2m · $270–400
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• Okat → Tarawa

  Train, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

No local-transport research exists yet for Tarawa

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 Tarawa. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

If you know how people move in Tarawa – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.