Nauru

Description

Nauru is the least visited country on earth, twenty one square kilometres of raised coral with one road round the outside and a runway taking up much of the coastal strip. A century of phosphate mining stripped the interior to bare limestone pinnacles, and that ruined plateau is now the most striking thing on the island. Command Ridge at sixty five metres is the highest point and holds a Japanese communications bunker with its guns still in place, and the summit is one of very few in the world from which an entire country is visible. Anibare Bay on the east coast is the one beach.

Length of stay

Recommended length of stay: 2 to 4 days (optimal 3 days)

Travel season

Best time to visit: June – September

• Jan
• Feb
• Mar
• Apr
• May
• Jun
• Jul
• Aug
• Sep
• Oct
• Nov
• Dec

Highlights

1. Anibare Bay on the east coast
2. Command Ridge, its bunker and the Japanese writing on the walls
3. The ring road right round the island
4. The limestone pinnacles of the mined out interior
5. Buada Lagoon and the only free growing trees
6. Moqua Well and the Moqua Caves
7. Frigatebird catching with the abio line
8. Yaren, the seat of parliament beside the runway
9. The rotating phosphate cantilevers at Aiwo
10. The three point nine kilometre phosphate railway
11. Japanese bunkers and guns around the coast
12. Snorkelling off the reef edge
13. Diving the drop-off into deep water
14. Ijuw, the easternmost point of the island
15. Independence Day on the thirty first of January (January)

Getting there

Airports:

INU

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