Good Old Chinwagging

Category: 2011_PNG

  • Leaping fish of Madang

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    Beneath this layer is a marine wonder world of reef fish in bright blues, yellow, black and white like a zebra, and long grey fish like garfish. Looking intently more and more wonderful fish appear right below deck in the mottling of the moving lagoon.

  • Amelia Earhart Memorial Lae PNG

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    Amelia Earharts last flight doesn’t matter here. Its of no importance to the locals and I guess most of them don’t know who she was and her importance in aviation development and modern western women. The struggles of Papua New Guinea are much more fundamental than that.

  • Lae Markets

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    The people are extremely friendly, when the camera came out, people lined up to get their photos taken.

  • Shopping in Lae

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    The shopping experience in Lae is a little different to Mayfair London, Ginza Tokyo or 5th Avenue New York.

  • Going to Lae PNG

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    “Where are you going for Christmas” “PNG” “Why would you go to PNG?” “Because we have family there” “Isn’t it dangerous” You are now regaled with a litany off horrific stories involving muggings, murders, riots and rapes from almost everybody that’s been associated with PNG. When we mention we are not staying in “Moresby” but going…