Air Niugini Lounge Goroka
View of the Air Niugini Paradise Lounge in Goroka – all of it. Entered from the right side of pic after passing behind the check in desks. There was nowhere left to fit a chair. I declared an overflow seating area and pulled up a chair in the door…
Highlands Highway
The Highlands Highway, running about 500 km from Lae to Mt Hagen, is the lifeline of PNG. This view is typical, about 10 km east of Goroka. The road is spectacular in places, where it descends into deep valleys then winds over passes 2500m high, o…
Goroka is coffee
Goroka is the leading centre in PNG’s small coffee industry, with hundreds of small growers in the Eastern Highlands and a many mills. here, in a coffee warehouse, samples of coffee from a batch that has been milled are ‘cupped’ or graded to deter…
Goroka street scenes
View from the verandah of the Bird Of paradise Hotel in Goroka, on a cool morning – maybe 20 degrees. Goroka is about 1500 metres above sea level and has a mild climate – maximums in the mid twenties year round, with a rainy season. The vendors be…
Welcome to Goroka!
The unique uniforms of the Asaro Mud men are the tourist attraction in Goroka, although they actually come from Asaro, about 1/2 hour further up the Highlands Highway. The legend goes that, when the Asaro tribesmen were going to have a bit of a wa…
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