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- Port Moresby
- Capital
- Kina (PGK)
- Currency
- 5,049,055
- Population
- PG
- Country Code
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Travel Blogs from Lae, Papua New Guinea
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Kindness and frustration
Today, has been characterized by random acts of kindness and interminable frustrations. After travelling to Lae so that we might catch the ferry to Kimbe in the west or Alotau in the southeast we find a startling problem at the Rabaul Ferry booking ...
On the bus with Rambo
... apples! In attempt to avoid Moresby and sort out ferry transportation we touch down in Moresby and transfer, almost immediately to Lae. Note – For anyone reading the May 2008 Lonely Planet guide a passport photograph is no longer required for ...
The bedbug night in
Foi ainda há menos de um ano que me introduzi não intencionalmente ao ecossistema do percevejo (ou “bed bugs”). Esses bichos que vivem no interior dos colchões e que decidem parasitar o humano que debita calor corporal para a ...
Caspa is not getting it...
... os temas que me ia pedindo: “o que estou a fazer aqui”, “por onde viajei”, “o que acho da Papua New Guinea”, “o que aconteceu com o acidente de barco”. Saio de avião em direcção para Lae. Quando o Adam ...
Greetings from Ukarumpa
Hi all, It has been a good number of weeks now since I last wrote. Much has happened in between, that I am looking forward to giving you glimpses of. At the end of POC (the Pacific Orientation Course) we had a weekend village stay with the Amele ...
On to Bougainville
... to PNG in 1979. In fact, when I was about fourteen, we were able to visit their village. I know some of their Papua New Guinean co-translators, too, and am looking forward to seeint them again. Plus, Bougainville is absolutely gorgeous!! It has been ...
Leaving Lae
Leaving Lae in Papua New Guinea aboard the Barbarian we were following a storm that had left a large amount of debris in the water, I was assured by the skipper a mate of mine, Rod that the storm was in front of us and we still had a couple of day in ...
We arrive at Jacquinot Bay
... We were basically doing a wreck discovery run into areas unknown, traveling the seldom travel route up the southern coast of New Britton. Rod over the years gathered info from locals and the missionaries and just by reading books and periodicals and ...
Day Three the Journey continues
... well, around Tami Islands the weather was good and the swell was moderate. Today we are to head across to the neighbouring main Island New Britton this crossing was due to take 8 or so hours. Little did we know that the same storm from the day before ...
Day Two the Tami Islands
Once we were in the Lagoon the water became wonderfully still and I breathed a sigh of relief, you see in a small boat like the Barbarian, she is only 14m (42') in length she takes on the open ocean but she does bob around like a cork. just before this ...
Oct 20-Nov 1: Culture Overload and Heart Languages
... - it's nice. Last weekend I attended what would be equivalent to the state fair back home where over 100,000 people from Papua New Guinea came to the show grounds for the Morobe Cultural and Agriculture Show 2010. I went mostly to see the presentation of ...
PAPUA NG: FEAR EATS THE SOUL, FAITH RESTORES IT
Pictures from Hypertravel: 100 Countries in 2 Years (Backpackers' Guide to the World and the Soul) by Hardie ...
Mardi and Philip's Visit
... as a protest against violence! And now 2 people are dead! Thursday we headed for some R&R on the island of New Britain. I left Lae feeling I'd like to revisit and maybe get to Salamaua, Bulolo, Wau, the Markham River (watching out for crocodiles of ...
Lazing around Lae
... on every window, including the windscreen. Yep, security is an issue in the big cities and towns of New Guinea! Still we spent the next few days around Lae, preparing for the second group of MIA Hunters to arrive and generally giving Bryan a hand. It was ...
Mixin' it up in the Markham
... twin row radial engine. For more info on MIA Hunters go to: http://pro5.com/mia/. For the latest MIA Hunters news on their 2010 New Guinea expedition along with video go to: http://wcco.com/local/mia.hunters.mission.2.1777528.html. ...
Nov 28th- Dec 16th: The Fullness of Joy
... Pacific from the hill under the palm trees and just reminisced about my time in Yemli, and my past two months in Papua New Guinea, thankful for countless blessings which I experienced. That place will be forever in my memory for a couple of reasons... :) ...
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