Top Things to do in Mariana Islands
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What to do and see in Mariana Islands, Mariana Islands: The Best Monuments & Statues
Discover the best top things to do in Mariana Islands, Mariana Islands including Concrete Jesus, Atomic Bomb Pits, Archbishop Felixberto Flores Memorial Circle, Goddess of Life, Statue of Quiquha.
Restaurants in Mariana Islands
1. Concrete Jesus
2. Atomic Bomb Pits
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 38 reviews
Reviewed By Tommy599 - Two Rivers, United States
This is a very dated report as I was on the island 10 years ago After diving Australia my dive buddies flew home and I went on my own to Saipan for three days of exploring. Took an additional day trip over to Tinian via a small aircraft puddle jumper. I landed at the small airstrip that use to be the Japanese fighter base. Rented a car and drove all around the island looking for any WW II history. My father in law was an Engineer on a B 29 flying out of India / China and then out of Saipan and finally out of Tinian, so I wanted to bring back video for him. As I dove my rental car down one of the remaining B-29 runways I made a video for my father in law simulating what it may have looked like taking off back in 1945. I work at a Nuclear Power Plant in Wisconsin so I was very interested in viewing the two bomb pits. At the time of my visit there was no glass covering over the pits and I was able to drop down into one of the pits to view how the hydraulic lift mechanism was use to lift the bomb(s) up into the B-29 bomb bay. The second pit had been filled with dirt and there was a tree growing out of it (all now cleaned up and a second glass enclosure over it). Right near the bomb pits is the old WWII Japanese flight control building = very interesting. One of the B-29 American runways is in a remarkable status of preservation and is still used by some military groups for training. The second runway was filled with a holding area buildings for Chinese refugees that had fled China. The third runway was TOTALLY overgrown!
