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Rabaul Slideshow
Rabaul
Travel Blogs from Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
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Exactly half way!!!!!
... some of the old planes, etc. There are only 10 or so cruise ships a year entereing this only port area for Papua New Guinea. People were walking across the gray land from all over to see the cruise ship visitors. They were very friendly with very ...
Another a volcano!
... New Guinea until captured by the British Commonwealth during World War I, when it became the capital of the Australian mandated Territory of New Guinea until 1937. During World War II it was captured by the Japanese in 1942, and it became the main base ...
Day 89 - Crew Talent Show
We'd been awaiting this day for a long time. The crew's talent show had been advertised with a lot of notice and the whole ship was buzzing for it. I got the impression this was the crew's one chance to be real (or as real as can be achieved in a ...
Submarines & Expats
... the efficient and cheap PMV network of east New Britain we soon travelled from Kokopo to the WW2 Japanese Submarine base north of Rabaul on Tavui Point. George and his son Paul were our guides around the bunkers, tunnels and gun relics that still remain. ...
East to Kokopo
... brief walk in to town has us exploring the Kokopo market and environs. Hastily established after the volcano of 1994 destroyed most of Rabaul (20 miles to the west) Kokopo is now the capital of east New Britain – clean, functional and an ideal base ...
Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
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!
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 ...
Rabaul, Papau New Guinea
... so it was. We returned; went up and ate lunch. After lunch we linger on the back open deck and watch the ship depart Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Out of the harbor, past the volcanoes and out to the Solomn Sea, the White Lady took us. The term White Lady ...
Did Someone Mention Gold?!?
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?)
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 ...
Högt och lågt i Island province
... 'mtades på flygplatsen och kördes till Kokopo av Taklam Lodge där vi hade förbokat en natt. Den före detta provinshuvudstaden Rabaul förstördes 1994 av ett vulkanutbrott (vulkanen blev tyst först 2008). Man byggde efter detta upp en ny stad, ...
Sea Day
At 7AM I thought about getting up and decided against the idea, opting to lay in rest for another hour. Around 8AM I got up showered and dressed. I went to the MDR for breakfast where I joined two Australian couples. One of the couples had seen my blog ...
Sea Day
... went to the evening movie. We met back up in the cabin and sprayed the clothes we set out to wear in Rabaul, Papua. New Guinea with a pesticide as Dr. Goodale, my MD in Kauai advised. Although the thought of wearing chemically treated clothes disturbed ...
Sea Day
... then the average passengers from the last segment. We have left Australia and are heading north in the Tasman Sea to Rabaul, Papua, New Guinea. The weather was sunny gaining warmth as the day progressed. Today we reviewed the cha-cha in dance class. The ...
Rabaul
... container/cargo ships loading coconut meat that will be exported to the Philippines to make goods. Coconut meat is the predominant export of Rabaul. The local flora of banana trees, plumeria, tea leaves, cats claw, and fern, to name a few, flourished in ...
Approaching the Bismark Archipelago
... lube oil that we had to do at Galveston, Texas, earlier in the voyage. That now seemed like chicken feed !!! Rabaul itself lay within the crater of a volcano! Believed to be extinct, but with a history of 'hiccups' !!! Not too ...
CPL
Whilst in Rabaul we made friends with the children of the CPL wharf's German manager and his beautiful polynesian wife. They were cracking kids and we had a swell party one evening in their grounds, where the moother cooked us a great feast in the ...
Volcano
12th March 2012 Rabaul-New Britain island- Papua New Guinea. In 1937 the town of Rabaul was devastated by a volcanic eruption from the nearby volcano Mt Tavurvur, and shortly afterwards in 1941 the Japanese invaded the island and turned it into a ...
Will the Pryor's survive 4-star cruising?
... nd October 2009 Rabaul, New Guinea Up early on the way in to take photos and video of the volcano and coast line, which is pretty ...
Rabaul in New Britain
We were pleasantly surprised to find cruise ships now use a dock at Rabaul instead of using tenders. We disembarked for a quick look at the local market but it was mostly fruit and vegetables. We must have picked up red pawpaw there because it ...
Once beautiful and still trying
... humid and it is not on our list of places to go back to. Rested up on the ship for the next couple of days and arrived in Rabaul this a.m. I was in Rabaul for ne day about 40 years ago and of course it has changed very much because the vulcano erupted in ...
Mardi and Philip's Visit II
... the island of PNG and its offshore islands after WWI, Rabaul was made the Peacetime Capital of the Australian Mandated Territory of New Guinea. Between April and December 1941, Lark Force was sent to Rabaul and at its height numbered some 1400 ...
Hell on earth
... the capital of East New Britain province, Rabaul, was completely destroyed. The only volcanological Observatory in PNG (Papua New Guinea) was able to warn the people the day before and everyone was evacuated safely. Vulcan quietened down in ...
Eating Betel Nuts in Papa New Guinea
The town of Rabaul is situated on Papua New Guinea's Island of New Britain..... next to the Island of New Ireland. In 1994 it was completley destroyed by a volcanic eruption .Volcanic ash was ...
Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
... so it was. We returned; went up and ate lunch. After lunch we linger on the back open deck and watch the ship depart Rabaul, Papua New Guinea. Out of the harbor, past the volcanoes and out to the Solomn Sea, the White Lady took us. The term White Lady ...
png-2000
arrived from solomon islands on mv findings travelled to feni island where my sister had done some archeological digs to manus where grandfather was based as pilot in ww2 and did some scuba ...
The volcanic Rabaul
How about visiting Rabaul, where the volcano spurts out smoke every minute like a chimney...How bout walking down along the ruined vilage and reliase that you are standing same level as the house roofs...cover with more than a metre of volcano ash... ...
Queen Mary 2 in Rabaul
... . This small town and port is situated around Simpson Harbour, part of Blanche Bay, on the east coast of the island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea. The town, formerly known as the Pearl of the Pacific, is built within a large volcanic caldera and is ...
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