http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Oceania , Papua New Guinea en-us Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:56:39 BST Sat, 30 Aug 2008 13:56:39 BST Hey Everyone I realized that is has been a while since I last updated my pictures. So here are the pics from my Team in Port Moresbey. I had the chance to go on an Ateam. Which basically is an onshore team for the duration of the port. My past Ateam was in Cambodia over a year ago. Anyways We went to the port moresby City mission. The mission takes in street kids and people of low education. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/National-Capital-District/Port-Moresby/blog-280642.html Papua New Guinea is a crazy place. I've seen dogs swim half a mile across the harbour to escape the torment of their owners. We've tied our boat up to a jetty and had wizened old men and women with black teeth try to sell us gold and parrots. And when I took a local boat to Alotau I experienced the genoristy of the wantok system and was treated by the owner as well as if I had been one of the fami http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-277089.html Today the singles in the missionary group went out to tour the Hope School here in Port Moresby. It was really eye opening to see the level and standards for education here in this country. The Hope School is actually what we would consider an alternative school or last chance school. Kids who are orphans or extremely impoverished and can not afford to send their kids to school are able to be apar http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/National-Capital-District/Port-Moresby/blog-271126.html Hello EveryoneWe are having a great time with all the disciples here in Moresby. Truly it has been an inspiring time visiting with the disciples in Gumine and in Moresby. It has been extremely hot and I believe we all have lost a few pounds due to hard work and the heat. Please continue to keep us in your prayers and we look forward to our return on May 2nd.LoveShann P. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/National-Capital-District/Port-Moresby/blog-270776.html Hi everyone We have had a very encouraging trip thus far. I am very proud of the missionaries here. They have done such an outstanding job serving and loving the people here in PNG. They have gone to the Highlands and traversed dangerous roads on foot and in vehicles and they have come to the capitol preaching teaching and loving the church in so many ways. Bel bilong mi i kirap long taim m http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/National-Capital-District/Port-Moresby/blog-270773.html Hey there friends and family Sorry for the lack of communication. Tony and Tasha do not live in the same complex so their phone hookup took place today We have hit the ground running after arriving Friday pm. Saturday 7am 6mile prayer walk around the city of Moresby and singing songs at Ella Beach. Off to the Highlands the next morning and waking up to the kakaruks at 4am. The single girls http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/Central/blog-270763.html Hello my family in the USA I'm not much of a blogger but it doesn't matter since we've not had internet almost the entire time we've been here. What a different world. You can have a conversation with anyone on the street. maybe because I'm more like a tourist and they're hoping to sell me something Gumine is a lot like the garden of Eden and I would just as quickly move there http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/Central/blog-270759.html Hello over thereSo God is truly amazingSorry for the long gap of silence we had no consistant access to the internet until today.We are all doing well every one is safe and encouraged.The Port Morseby COC Gumine COC Mogiagi COC Brisbane Australia COC and the Sydney COC all send their love to all of you back in Detroit they are totally united with us by the Holy Spirit.So far we have h http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/Central/blog-270756.html Well greetings from Alotau. This port was only 6 days long and so I desided that i would take the opertunity to take a few break days during this port. So we had 3 break days and 3 of my good friends and I went to a local resort for the days. It was so nice because when i was arranging this accomedation and what not I was writting back and forth between the resort and me. I first mentioned to th http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/Milne-Bay/Alotau/blog-269792.html Thanks to the wonder of PhotoShop I recently retouched the photos I took in Papua New Guinea in September 1995. They had turned all foggy from being in a photo album with plastic folders. I'm not the best photographer in the world and these were taken on a crappy 35mm this was before digital cameras so they're not National Geographic material but I'm proud of them anyway. As for the storie http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-269700.html Well hello all hows it going Well time flys when your having fun I guess. Our time in PNG has been really amazing. The people here are so awsome I love it. Well what can I say about Kavieng. So far this is the most beautiful place i have been. The Beaches are white with clear seas. I have had the chance to take a 1 hour boat ride to get to the church I was attending one morning and so we ende http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/New-Ireland/Kavieng/blog-268753.html Hello everyone in the mainland this is Debbie and Diane we wanted to let you guys know that we arrived and that the disciples here are fantastic. Hi family wow. It's super awesome here and I love the people and the sounds sights and smells. Today we did a really long prayer walk uphill and all over. beautiful We carried a torch and it was inspiring. no time left. cu. http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-267832.html There is something shall we say unnerving about being completely defenseless in a city more known for its violence than its colorful mixture of native cultures. I guess that if you think about it if you open the blender that is the city of Port Moresby and you throw in a few thousand immigrants from some 800 distinctly different cultures add a heaping portion of poverty a good amount of di http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/Milne-Bay/Alotau/blog-262824.html Tuesday March 11 2008 Today was our day to tour Rabaul Papua New Guinea on the island of New Britain. We had to wait to get into the port to dock because a cargo ship was late leaving so we were all out on the decks and noticed one of the volcanoes starting to put out a lot of steam. It was very interesting but also a little unnerving. Again we had been told to expect rough roads tour guid http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/East-New-Britain/Rabaul/blog-255276.html Papua New Guinea PNGNew Britain Island Rabaul Arrived at the pilot station on time 600 am. Waited 30 minutes for the pilot. I guess island time applies even to an island the size of New Britain PNG. While we waited I got a good look at Turvurvur one of the many active volcanoes in the area. We are on the Ring of Fire here and a caldera on the flank of Turvurvur was spewing steam int http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/East-New-Britain/Rabaul/blog-255234.html March 10 2008The day began with a fitness class and Mass and if that doesnrsquot prepare one for the day then I am not sure what else I can do to get ready. But the programs were about to start first was a program on ldquoMaking the Most of Rabaul.rdquo Our stop tomorrow is Rabaul Papua New Guinea. We have been told to expect very rustic tours meaning no luxury air conditioned buses http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/East-New-Britain/Rabaul/blog-254978.html The Blue Pacific. NOTAt least not until today. For the first days of the cruise we had misty cloudy and rainy weather and the water reflected the grey skies. The rains on Guadalcanal turned the sea brown with run off. Flotsam and jetsam fouled the water with large logs palm fronds plastic water bottles and aluminum cans. Those folks who chose to dive Iron Bottom Sound must have been disa http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/Bougainville/Arawa/blog-254603.html Well Welcome to the second port of out PNG time. It has been amazing time. Rabaul is so great. The area is so nice with nature and what not. There was an active volcano about 1 hour walk from the ship. There was also a nice mountain right in front of the ship. I did a bunch of early morning hikes in the past few weeks. Its great get up early before it get to hot and go out hiking I hope yo http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/East-New-Britain/Rabaul/blog-253525.html Upon leaving Australia we started retracing the path of the Navy in World War II. We crossed the Coral and Solomon Seas to reach Papua New Guinea. This enormous ocean which is sometimes referred to as the ldquoGreat Bluerdquo seems to stretch to the ends of the earth. One of the passengers remarked that if this ship had a glass bottom we would be able to see most of the Japanese Naval Flee http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-249405.html Wow. What can I say. After nine days of sailing from the Philippines we arrived at our first port in the counrty of PNG. It is amazing. We arrived in the port of Lae which is the second largest city in the country with about 120 thousand people. As time has gone on here in the port I found that so many people are very friendly. Infact they pay attention to the things we have to say. Also alot of http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/Morobe/blog-248447.html Hi everyone hope I find you all in good cheer and enjoying chrisms and new year celabrations. So there has been a fair amount of activity in the past month that I havent been able to tell you so I will try and get it all out befor my time runs out on the png university computer that im usingon a passage we had a pod of whales come up to the boat so we all jumped in a went swimming with them I c http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/Madang--province-/Madang--town-/blog-230920.html Hi everybodysorry about the delay of info but finding internet in papua new guinea has been a bit of an ordeal as well as finding anything here. So what has been happening for the past few weeks well after reaching the capital of the soloman island Honeara we all disapeared from the boat for several hours to get on some dry land. Even though there was not to much to do in town we found some n http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/East-New-Britain/Rabaul/blog-221123.html After my trip to the volcanoes of East New Britain in August I was ready to see more of this beautiful country that I now call home. It didn't take long for me to get lucky. First I was asked to travel to Kiunga and Daru in Western Province for work and then I visited Madang over the Independence Day weekend with friends.I visited Western Province for 3 days in the first week of September. The http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-202971.html Rabaul on New Britain Island used to be one of the pearls of the Pacific. Despite frequent volcanic activity the German colonisers and later the Japanese invaders had turned the town into one of the largest and one of the most attractive towns in Papua New Guinea. This reality changed rather abruptly in 1994 when the volcano Tuvurvur exploded with little warning completely destroying Rabaul http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/East-New-Britain/Rabaul/blog-189038.html Thanks to the Indonesian government we had to do a visa run in Papua New Guinea PNG to allow us the twenty extra days we needed in this sprawling mass of islands. We headed to Papua to get this mission rolling by catching a plane to Jayapura. Jayapura set beside a large sweeping bay was a dirty noisy place. It had internet connection sometimes and also a book shop where we selected from a http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-137381.html Someone told me that the UN no longer regards PNG Papua New Guinea as a developing country but as a country regressing back... slowly back to the neolithic from where it emerged less than 50 years ago... On July 1st 2006 I metup with my 2 travel companions from Croatia at the Hawaii Hostel a budget hostel in Singapore so low on the scale of luxuries that even shoestring travel books are too e http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-114337.html Papua New Guinea 0511051011055th Nov 2005I took Qantas from Melb to Brisbane and transit in there to Port Moresby of Papua New Guinea by Air Niugini.Before booking tickets I have realized that port moresby is one unique place not easy to travelexpensivedangeroushot and so many negative factors you can imagin.Howeverthe fact is so cruel.Firstlyin Bris Airport I got three strict safe gua http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-93660.html Who put all that paint into my faceHalf the face was covered with a thick layer of black paint while the stubble have been pasted with what looked like whipped egg white. The well built upperbody naked oiled and decorated with bracelets tussocks and a huge red disk around the neck showing a pearlwhite quartermoon. We stopped dead in our tracks. Those were Highlanders getting ready for the sh http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-91166.html Papua New Guinea became independent from Australia in 1975. At the time Australian football was the dominant code but rugby league quickly took over. PNG is an interesting place. There are approximately 7 million people in the Pacific and 5 million of them are in PNG. But PNG has yet to realise its full potential.I wrote this report upon my return to AustraliaSport within Society backgroundSport http://www.travelblog.org/Oceania/Papua-New-Guinea/blog-84064.html