Bird Of Paradise Hotel
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Goroka to Madang
The Bird of Paradise Hotel is old run down and ugly. The hot water is intermittent and the bookings process totally failed. The pool out the back looks rundown and the rooms were barely lit. Mine had a stuffed crocodile on the floor. I had a two room self contained flat with broken chair etc. But from what I am told it is the best in the area. And most importantly it is pretty clean and safe.
Outside the entry is a handcraft market where I bought a fantastic painting of ...
Mt Hagen to Goroka
What I learned today is the roads in PNG are in total disrepair. It looks like the rain and the trucks have beaten the funding available by government. All roads are potholed, there are no kerbs and channeling in the city and no streetlights, but there is light as all properties have security lighting.
The mountain roads have numerous slips both on to the roads and also with part of the roads missing. They have partially removed some of the slips to make the ...
Mt Hagen Sightseeing
... to a very small mini zoo and orchid farm called Avi Cultural Centre which was an enterprise of some of the locals.
The most interesting part of the trip was just sitting on the bus and traveling and watching the activities on the side of the road. It was great to see all the activity and get used to PNG life from a safe ...
Papua New Guinea – Part 1: The Main Island
... out to meet Sean’s cousin for lunch and were confronted by huge convoys of trucks, decorated with political posters and palm leaves and full of very loud, probably inebriated, local men. These convoys are intended to show the strength of support for the candidate and certainly made an impression on us, especially when one convey containing 20 trucks, each with about 20 men on it, drove by ...
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PMVn (som ni vid det här laget vet innebär lokalbuss) mellan Mt Hagen och Goroka tog ungefär fem timmar, även om Western Highlands highway var betydligt bättre än Southern Highlands highway. Bussen var nämligen tvungen att stanna vid sex poliskontroller eftersom det snart är nationellt val och de är rädda att vapen smugglas in i städerna. Polisen undersökte bussen och alla var tvungna att gå ut, utom de två vitingarna, dvs vi. Ingen tittade ens mot vårt bagage (som ...
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