Madang, Papua New Guinea Travel Blogs

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Apr 3, 2006

... full first.   Also during that day a cassowary had attacked us - perhaps the mum who's egg we took.   Back in Madang while everyone else dived I stayed in town with some locals who were from the same tribe as Jim.  The papuan wun tok ...

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

... zacela se samo smejat, ker je blo to edino kar mi je preostalo (poleg zelje, da pridem na cilj v enem kosu). Prispela v Madang, smrdeca, SRECNA in sla se nastanit v CWA (in zdej slisim krohot), kar pomeni Christian Women's Association J oz. Neki takega ...

Beautiful Madang
Jun 13, 2005 (4 photos)

... in Madang since we got to PNG on June 4th (or 3rd, America-time). This part of Discovery is an acculturation to Papua New Guinea and to cross-cultural interaction. This is done at POC, or SIL's Pacific Orientation Course. When I first got home what ...

Stories from the Last few Weeks
Jul 18, 2005 (15 photos)

... . Yet that is the language they know. Erastus is from the Solomon Islands, and Lois is from the Sepik Province of Papua New Guinea. When they entered the work of Bible translation in 1981, they embarked onto a life-long journey that would lead them far ...

Madang - Mossies ruin the party
Jan 22, 2007 (4 photos)

... tiny plane and no security which was wierd, just hopped on and off for 10mins each stop. an experience.   We landed in Madang to a terminal which was a shed, with no pick up from our hotel Jais Aben, but the airline called them and the manager ...

The Welsh Guard !
Apr 6, 1970

... easiest jobs in the world!  What was his name? Why, Taffy of course!       The RSL Club at Madang had a very nice swimming pool! Great when we had finished a hot days work. A quick dip and a few scoops of Pacific Lager and ...

It's all Change
Oct 11, 2008 (7 photos)

... a VSO Office manager from Malawi, and Tobias from Uganda who is to work on the HIV AIDS programme. The office in Madang is in an interesting state at present because the upstairs in being converted to make more meeting and office space so.......We have ...

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Apr 20, 2007

Madang, PNG

What made us smile.
May 26, 2009

... time the rain pours down.Dogs provide lots of amusement. They usually ignore humans and spend time on strictly doggy business. A new pup at school had not yet reached that stage of independence, still linked to the human mother surrogate. Sunday is early ...

A bit hot!
Feb 28, 2008 (5 photos)

... and generally making the most of lodge life before work begins.  We will try to email monthly as we are quite a way from Madang.  We will buy digicell phones which we can use to phone abroad so as soon as we get ourselves organised we will be in ...

Papua New Guinea
Jan 15, 2009

For later

Relaxen in Madang, einde van onze reis door PNG
Jun 28, 2009 (23 photos)

... naar dorpjes met een lokale gids. Een heel vriendelijke man die ons op straat aansprak. Met de PMV in 5 uur naar Madang gegaan aan de kust waar we nu zitten. Geweldige plek waar weer veel buitenlanders zitten die voor de buitenlandse bedrijven werken. Als ...

More PNG Pics
Sep 20, 2009 (4 photos)

A selection of our latest photo experiences...

Places to lay our heads
Nov 28, 2008 (5 photos)

... . When we want to treat ourselves we leave the humble hostel which is our usual stopover and walk across the bridge to the MADANG RESORT which prides itself in its adverts as the best resort in PNG. We just spoil ourselves by having a breakfast there, ...

Gatherings of the Clans
Jun 27, 2008 (1 photos)

... green, overlooking the water of the inlet near the Madang Resort Hotel at Kalibobo. The heads and deputies stayed at a hotel called the Madang Lodge which meant they had to be bussed down to the hall in the morning, but they didn't mind this and they were ...

Stuck in the mud (again)
Aug 1, 2009 (48 photos)

Early morning – unfortunately, after our late day yesterday. We went to breakfast, which wasn't set up until 6:45am or so. We sat on the terrace and watched the flying foxes return to roost on a nearby tree. After breakfast, our guide, Peter, was ...

Papua New Guinea 2008
Jan 15, 2009 (37 photos)

We'll be back for this!

A comfortable induction
Mar 16, 2008 (5 photos)

... .  I am hoping that a cut and paste will allow me to send it on hotmail when we next get to the VSO office in Madang. A budget room is a small room with two single beds, two wardrobes and a fan.  It has been our home for the last 3 weeks ...

Batmen's paradise
Jun 26, 2009 (23 photos)

... for weeks. In Kiunga and the highlands we were usually the only ones walking around town. One of the main attractions of Madang is the flying foxes that inhabit the town centre. They are everywhere! We’ve booked a flight to Vanimo. The border town ...

TV and Alcohol Shock!
Aug 25, 2008 (1 photos)

... from Nottingham. He married a lady from Karkar and has 4 children. Two of them are in Australia with their families and 2 live in Madang and help run the business. The first time we visited we stayed in their guest house. This time we went across on the ...

The Bones of the Ancestors
Jul 31, 2009 (35 photos)

... to reach Madang. Except for the pipe running from the nicle mine, it was a very slow, uninteresting journey. We reached Madang – and our guides did not know where the hotel was. They asked some people sitting alongside the road, who directed us to ...

Travel in PNG
Nov 13, 2008 (5 photos)

... you see a motorbike, a few cycles. But in the main walkers. The men don't carry as much, but as you get away from Madang ALL the men have some sort of machete, bush knife or grass knife. There are always people sitting by the side, or on the road, as that ...

Madang Water Life
Jun 15, 2009

... on the islands or in the estuaries of the Ramu or Sepik rivers, and returning after collecting loads of copra for the Madang processing plant. The sweet smell dominates the northern end of the town when the works is operating. Alongside this big stuff ...

A visit to the office
May 10, 2008 (1 photos)

... receiving.  so much for planning.  We are in the office on a damp Saturday morning having arrived in Madang Town yesterday.  We are staying at a guesthouse run by the Country Womens Association.  They organise coffee mornings ...

Bogia and the North Road
Sep 16, 2008 (3 photos)

... is the sort of trip we can get again. Coming doen to Madang was not so good. The minibus got a puncture about 2 hours out from Madang and there was more than a little nervousness as they fitted a spare which would have been on the scrap heap in UK, not on ...

Bubuman and Bubumeri
Apr 5, 2008 (2 photos)

The logistics of moving around will be an interesting challenge over the next few months.  Everyone seems very concerned about the white bubuman and and bubumeri, more respect for our age than anything else.  We have enjoyed another stay at the ...