Papua New Guinea Travel Blogs

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Apr 3, 2006

... ; I sat down, they were drunk enough that they'd soon be gone anyway.  But immediately as I sat down some of my new Papuan wun-toks came up and told me that they saw what had happened and that they would kill those two men for me.   ...

Milne Bay
Jun 27, 2008 (9 photos)

Next I headed to the coastal town of Alotau in Milne Bay. I spent the first day looking around town. There was a colorful market with lots of fruits, vegetables and fish, and of course everyone's favorite here-betelnut, which gives the locals a ...

Ships the sea and all that surrounds ...
Dec 23, 2002

Ships the sea and all that surrounds them...........the world all over. Travel the World all over as Ieuan Dolby has done for the last fifteen Years. Anything and everything of cultures and outbacks than many do not know exist. All is revealed in his " ...

Kiriwina
Jul 6, 2006 (3 photos)

... are next on the list along with mystical New Ireland and Nissan Island in the newly revitalised province of Bougainville. Papua New Guinea, one of the most colourful and tribal destinations on the planet, has suffered from more than its fair share of ...

Rabaul, Papau New Guinea
Feb 27, 2009 (12 photos)

... . A Fourth World Country is a country that can not exist without significant and constant help from another country or countries. Papua New Guinea still depends on Australia for is existence as a country.   That was the history of the area we were ...

Wild Women of the Sepik
Nov 24, 2006 (1 photos)

... look, "... eventually!" ========================================================== Coral Princess Cruises offer 10-night expeditionary cruises to Papua New Guinea and Melanesia aboard the 76-passenger Oceanic Discoverer. The Rabaul-Port Moresby ...

Getting started
Jun 21, 2008 (1 photos)

I got stuck in Port Moresby for a couple days because as usual I arrived with nothing arranged and I also arrived on a Sunday morning when nothing is open so impossible to make arrangements. At the airport in Manila I met an Aussie expat who had been on ...

Village life
Jul 2, 2008 (9 photos)

I decided to go to East Cape, which is the eastern most point of the main land of PNG. To get there I took the local transportation called PMV's or public motor vehicle. Basically it's a huge truck with two benches in the back down each side. ...

In the Highlands
Jun 24, 2008 (11 photos)

... guesthouse to a lookout called Mt Kis. I am going to tell this story here because maybe if another woman is planning on going to Papua New Guinea solo and reads this she can learn from it. Plus, for better or worse, this is a big part of my trip and it ...

The Land Time Forgot
Oct 19, 2005 (1 photos)

Expedition cruiser, Rod Eime, had no idea what he was doing when he set out for Papua New Guinea aboard Oceanic Princess. That's why he went. It started as a low rumble, a distant reverberation that could have been a thunderstorm somewhere over the ...

Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
Feb 27, 2009 (1 photos)

Friday 27th February - Day 45 - Rabaul, Papua New Guinea During the port lecture the previous day, we had been advised by our fellow passengers that Simpson Port, where the ship would be docking, was very pretty and dramatic, with the volcano on the ...

Joe And The Volcano!
Jun 21, 2007 (20 photos)

I'm not quite sure what it is about me, but every single airport we hit I seem to get stopped for the security explosives checks...  The tab gets brushed over my luggage and clothes before being checked in the machine...  All good so far - fingers crossed ...

wantok, mi laikimTok Pisin
Mar 2, 2006 (7 photos)

uff ... tuki sem ene 35 ur in zgodilo se je ze tooook stvari, da sploh ne vem, kje naj zacnem. Na letaliscu v Cairnsu se je zacelo ... dobro :) poleg tega, da sem imela sedez 13A (there is no such thing as BAD LUCK!) in da smo vzleteli z zamudo in da je ...

At Sea
Feb 28, 2009

Saturday 28th February - Day 46 - At Sea We are presently on a northerly course towards Guam our next port of call in two days time.  We are passing through he Bismark Sea and are approximately 750 nautical miles (1.15 land miles) south of Guam.& ...

the land of unexpected
Mar 28, 2006

Turisticna stran papaue nove gvineje ima napisano ¡V the land of unexpected ¡K JEP! Ko je clovek preprican, da se mu nc cudnega vec ne more zgodit ¡V JEP! LAHKO SE! Torej bila sem v Madangu nazadnje, ko sem ugotovila da imam cudno alergijo na hrbtu¡K ok, ...

Did Someone Mention Gold?!?
Feb 26, 2008 (4 photos)

Another flight in my marathon trip across Australia and on to PNG... 8 flights in 4 days, a total of 24 hours in the air with God knows how many hours spent in terminals waiting for flights or baggage... The things I have to put up with, eh? The ...

Monijin, yu stap gut? (Good morning, how are you?)
Feb 21, 2008

Yesterday, we spent the day in remote Rabaul, the capital of New Britain Island. It is the largest of Papua New Guinea Islands & the most primitive island in the world, a country of dense jungle covered mountains & rain forests. As we approached the ...

Busy week
Jun 5, 2007 (74 photos)

Hey everyone! Hope you are all having a great week! We have been busy getting stuff set up and ready to be here for the next 7 weeks. I cannot believe that we have been here for a week already! It is Monday night here, but I'm not sure ...

Rabaul
Jan 11, 1991

We arrive in Rabaul for SCUBA diving.

neopisljivo
Mar 5, 2006 (14 photos)

Uff... kje naj zacnem?? Morda tu, da sem v Alotau in da si se vedno nisem opomogla od soka, ki sem ga dozivela v PNG - sam da se ne boste ustrasli, sok je samo pozitiven in vse kar se dogaja zaenkrat je pravljicno. Ker trenutno nimam interneta in ne ...

WOW!!!
Jun 28, 2007

Hey to one and all! I hope you all have had an awesome week! I have been so busy this week that I really cannot believe it has only been one week! We have just finished our "village stay" and I really don't know if I will be able to describe everything ...

expati, avstrijke in kruhovci
Mar 10, 2006

V zadnjih dneh smo ... - imeli ene 42 krajsih dezevij - sli vsak vecer vn (razen v sredo!) - iskali nove mangrove in se specializirali za vzpostavitev informacijskih centrov v oddaljenih predelih :) Ne vem kje sem koncala, predvsem sem ponedeljek ...

Buena Kwiai
Jul 13, 2007

... home where Marcus talked to him about new religions coming to the area.  He said he was really open to any new religions coming because he knows that the people need God, but that he does not get involved in religion personally.  That ...

We are here!
May 29, 2007

Hey!  we are here and alive!  email more later!  love you all!

trije mozje v colnu, da o psu sploh ne govorimo
Mar 20, 2006 (6 photos)

Ufff ... bo prva beseda, ki jo bom napisala, ker mam res velik za napisat J Ce zacnem pri 15.3.2006 bo to pomenilo - odpravila sem se iz alotaa z ladjo - ja, zelo avanturisticno, se posebej, ker je bila hitra normalna ladja pokvarjena ter sem bila ...

Illnesses
Jun 22, 2007

Hello to one and all! I cannot believe that it had been another week! Time seems to go so quickly here, but then other times it seems like we have been here for years! I have finally gotten most of the peoples's names at the town church, but the village ...

Back in Alotau
Jul 15, 2007

I'm back in Alotau: Hey to one and all! I cannot believe that this summer is almost over! We fly out of here on Saturday (21st) and will be in Australia til the next Sunday (29th).  We will fly out of Brisbane at 11:00am on the 29th and land in LA ...

Tinani!!
Jun 1, 2007

... view is AMAZING!  We can walk out our front door and see an amazing mountain range that runs down the middle of Papua New Guinea.  They guys also have an awesome view, and they don't have any trees in the way.  Yesterday we had time ...

First Few Days
May 31, 2007

Hello!  we are all having a great time!  the internet here is terrible, so this will be really short again!  I am trying to get more infor out, but haven't quite gotten there!  i don't think there will be any pictures going out, but i' ...

Farewell to PNG
Jul 20, 2007

Hey guys and gals! I cannot believe that this will be my last update from PNG! Time has flown by so quickly that it completely amazes me. We leave tomorrow afternoon and will stay in Port Moresby, PNG tomorrow night.  We will fly to Brisbane on ...