Before landing, you should ask the villagers for permission and tell them that you just want to look around. A little further along the coast is the Malaita fishing village . As it is populated by Malaitan settlers, it's a great opportunity to see two differing cultural practices operating only a minutes from each other. A bit of a haul to get there, this group of over 100 islands in Isabel Province is among the most attractive waterways in the region.
Staff can also arrange local accomodation.
The best way to the islands is by canoe from Wagina Island in Choiseul Province. Believing that ancestors often lived on as sharks, the animal is treated with totemistic reverence. Shark calling is the ancient art of summoning sharks to the shallows and feeding them by hand. The boy would then climb on the back of this oldest shark, which would proceed to swim around the lagoon before depositing the boy back where he started. Hand-feeding ceased in the 1970s, but the rest of this amazing ritual still occurs.