Flag Hotel Bird Of Paradise Goroka

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 waiting for us. We had to take care of some logistics (the hotel didn’t have a record th...

Very noisy night last night: horns honking, people shouting, cats fighting, alarms – not continuous noise, which I might have tuned out, but long periods of quiet punctuated by loud events. Woke up a lot.

No one was feeling tops today – I think I'm doing the best because I rested so much last night. But we were nevertheless do...

Up early – seemed harder to wake up to an alarm at 6am than it is to wake to the roosters. Maybe the difference is went to sleep at 9pm in the villages; maybe I just didn't sleep as hard. Any case, breakfast in the hotel, then we went to meet Shelly who took us to the airport. A longer line than what we’ve seen previously, but still ...

Ja daar zijn we weer met het restant van onze reis door PNG.

We waren gebleven in Tufi. De middag dat ik het laatste bericht verstuurde zaten we te wachten op het vliegtuig van Tufi naar Port Moresby. Dat vliegtuig kwam dus niet opdagen. Iets wat wel vaker gebeurt in PNG. Aangezien wij op de Nederlandse manier gepland hadden (krap dus) ...

Our flight to Port Moresby was cancelled so we had to stay an extra night in Tufi and enjoy our last Lobster meal. As the flight left the next morning early enough to connect with our flight to Kiunga we haven't spent any time in Port Moresby, the capital. As stories go round that it’s not the safest and most interesting place we didn̵...

PNG 17......Madang Water Life
Madang is a busy port. It has winding
access channels with deep water, then inlets and islands which give
long water frontages and many landing points for a range of shipping.
You are never far from the waterside and cargo or people traffic is
a major business here.
The big boys come in under p...

Png.16 .....you'll never believe what I saw!Smiles are part of life in PNG, big smiles as strangers greet you, smiles red from betel , smiles gleaming white . 'The land of the unexpected 'also produces its fair share of smiles and laughter. Scenes to entertain and surprise are one of the joys of a journey. Amongst the scenic beauty and the clear...

Salut à tous, je viens d'arriver à Jayapura du côté indonésien en West Papua. J'ai enfin internet où je peux vous écrire donc pas la peine d'envoyer le GIGN, déclencher le plan hors sec ou d'affoler l'ambassade de France en Papouasie...En tout cas merci à ceux qui se sont inquiétés. Ouais, y en a quelques un. Je vais vous envoyer plusieurs email...

Again I arrive without having contacted the place I was planning on staying, phone lines were down I was told at the travel agency. No problem, the airport is right in town. A local school teacher saw me looking a bit lost and offered to walk me to the guesthouse I was planning on staying. Next day I wandered around town. There was a museum to c...

Whilst in Madang we frequented the RSL Club as it seemed to be the only place there! Meeting the locals was quite a rarety as there didn't seem to be too many. However, one very regular 'customer' was a very tall chap with a military air and a small dog who would nip his legs if he thought his 'master' had had too much to drink! This guy turned ...