Pohnpei travel guide

Palikir is a strange place. It's hardly a town and even less a capital, but officially Palikir is the capital of FSM. It's a very spread out place with Pohnpei's only college and a few residents, but it also contains every official office in Pohnpei. From parliament, president office, high court, post office, they are all here, in similar looking buildings.

On a large slap of rock above the owner's house is a big collection of ancient petroglyphs (rock art). They are exposed to the elements and can be hard to see, if the rock as been left to the mosses and algaes. The petroglyphs depicted many things, but canoe paddles, foot prints, and people are the most easy recognizable. Nobody seem to know much about them, but the best guess for their age is a couple of thousands years.

Pwisehn Malek is a distinct looking basalt hill. Local myth tells about a large chicken, which took a poo here long ago and it hardened into the Pwisehn Malek. The area might have provided the basalt pillars for Nan Madol.

On the west side of the Kolonia peninsula lies three shipwrecks. They are really rusten and half submerged, but we guess it would be possible to snorkle around them, if you can get down to them.