Papua New Guinea Getting There & Away

Getting There & Away

By Air Most travellers arrive in Papua New Guinea from Australia. The capital city of Port Moresby happens to be the gateway to most tourists, though another international airport has been made operational recently at Alotau. The national airline, Air Niugini, operates to Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, Singapore, Manila, Hong Kong, and Vanimo in Indonesia. Qantas also has flights from Sydney, Brisbane, and Cairns. Solomon Airlines flies from Honiara in the Solomon Islands and provides access to further destinations in South Pacific. By Boat PNG's ports include Madang, Lae, and Port Moresby on the mainland, Kieta on Bougainville, and Rabaul on New Britain. By Land The only land border is with Irian Jaya, there are rumours of it being closed, Indonesia, and crossing it involves some preparations but is not that difficult as it might have been. In Jayapura, Indonesia you'll find a PNG consulate to apply for a tourist visa. Depending on your Indonesian visa there are different options to cross the border. If you have a Visa-on-Arrival, issued to you for example at the Jakarta Airport, you can only cross the border using a boat. Boats can be rented from Hamedi... Any other type of visa you can rent a car, or an ojek and cross the landborder.