LOLOMA FOUNDATION

SOLOMON ISLANDS ITINERARY 2009
SUNDAY, AUGUST 30                
Depart Los Angeles, 11:30 pm, arr Nadi, Fiji on Tuesday, September 1.  
We will be bringing additional medical supplies in suitcases, so we are asking you to try and limit yourself to one bag, so that the other bag can be packed with supplies.  At the airport, Bob Sykes, one of our board members will meet you and he will have the excess medicine.  Please advise me about what your baggage needs are so we can plan accordingly.  
 
TUESDAY, SEP 1                     
Depart Nadi at 8:30 am, arrIving Honiara at 12:10 pm. 
Transfer to the Kitano Mendana Hotel and await embarkation on the “Spirit of the Solomons”.  Team members Lance, Linda and Eileen will meet you here as they have been in Honiara a week earlier, unpacking and redirecting the container contents.   Room assignments and rest before dinner.  The Spirit will sail in the evening for Tulaghi.  Briefing at dinner. 

WEDNESDAY, SEP 2  
Today, we will organize clinics at Tulaghi and the surgery team will begin surgeries.

Tetere Hospital the surgery team will be hard at work performing surgeries on past year's prescreened patients and others added by the hospital nurses.

THURSDAY, SEP 3  
Continue clinics and surgeries.

FRIDAY, SEP 4           
Clinics in the morning and depart for Mary Island in the afternoon.

SATURDAY, SEP 5  
We awaken to an island all to ourselves for a day of rest and relaxation.               As the sun sets, we’ll sail for our next destination .  

SUNDAY, SEP 6         
Our mooring on the edge of the  Marovo Lagoon provides a spectacular backdrop  for Breakfast today.  We are in front of Peava Village, home of our host Lisa Choquette’s resort, Solomon Dive Adventures, near Nggatokae.  You can see what it’s like online at www.solomondiveadventures.com We will be escorted to the property where Violet, the village nurse and Lisa have organized a clinic for the local people in the immediate area.  It’ll be a luxury clinic, as all patients will have been pre-screened!  We will run the clinic until later in the afternoon when we will lift anchor and sail for our furthest destination, the Helena Goldie Hospital at Munda.

MONDAY, SEP 7  
Surgery and clinics, Munda, Helena Goldie Hospital.  This is a new destination for us and so we’ll see how it unfolds as we arrive.  One thing to our advantage is that at least they know we’re coming!

TUESDAY, SEP 8         
Surgery and clinics, Munda, Helena Goldie Hospital
 
WEDNESDAY, SEP 9
Clinics in the morning, then we will sail back to the tip of the Florida Islands where we will anchor near Kombuana.

THURSDAY, SEP 10
Day of rest. This evening, we have our final dinner aboard the Spirit and begin motoring back to our home port of Honiara.

FRIDAY, SEP 11       
Farewell to the crew of the Spirit after breakfast and disembark for check-in at the Kitano Mendana Hotel.  Meet in lobby for room assignments.  Unpack and meet in the lobby at 11:30 am to board the bus to depart for the afternoon clinic at Kohimarama.  To save time, exquisite gourmet box lunches  will be served on the bus.  Return in early evening.  No host dinner at the hotel.

SATURDAY, SEP 12
Breakfast at 7:30 at the Mendana.  Bus departs at 9 am for Tetere,where we will conduct all day clinics here, returning at 6 pm by bus.            
We’re going to India tonight! No host dinner at the Taj Mahal. 

SUNDAY, SEP 13       
Bus departs at 9 am for full day clinics at Tetere, returning by 6 pm. Dinner at the Mendana, hosted by Loloma Foundation.  We will have special guests joining us to share interesting stories about the Solomon Islands. 

MONDAY, SEP 14
Join us for an optional tour of the W.W. II sights in the morning. 

TUESDAY, SEP 15
Settle Mendana bills and have luggage in the main lobby for bus departure to the airport at 11:00 am.  Depart Honiara at 1:10 pm,arriving in Nadi at 6:30 pm.  Depart Nadi for Los Angeles at 10 pm, arriving Los Angeles the same day, Tuesday, September 15 at 1:20 pm.