Mount Hagen Transportation Tips by Bwana_Brown

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Getting TO/AROUND: This photo shows a typical scene on the Highlands Highway near Goroka, with driving being on the left side of the road, British-style (my 6 years of driving standard transmission/left-side vehicles in Zambia and PNG have made me AC/DC when it comes to switching between North American and English rental car driving!). As you can see, the road was in quite good condition back in those days, with only the odd mudslide or two causing hold-ups during the rainy season. I drove this highway from Mt. Hagen to Lae several times and also a roundtrip on the spur highway to Madang on the north coast. However, I never did get beyond Mt. Hagen into the furthest western reaches, where things were really getting rugged - it just seemed that there were more pressing power problems somewhere else in the many small power stations scattered around this large country! The latest reports say that roadblocks and highway robberies are very common now in this part of PNG - I never even had a hint of that in all my times driving here and there.

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