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Learn Tok Pisin fast with this practical guide: key phrases, how the grammar works, real examples, and common mistakes to avoid when visiting Papua New Guinea.

A practical guide to Papua New Guinea sing-sing festivals like Goroka and Mount Hagen: what they are, how to attend, photograph, and behave respectfully.

Understand bride price in Papua New Guinea: what it means, how negotiations work, regional differences, and the common mistakes families should avoid.

A practical guide to leasing customary land in Papua New Guinea safely: ILGs, the lease-leaseback trap, due diligence steps, and mistakes to avoid.

How to travel Papua New Guinea by PMV: fares, routes, how to board, safety tips, and common mistakes travelers make on public motor vehicles.

Off the eastern tip of Papua New Guinea, scattered across the Solomon Sea, lie the islands of Milne Bay Province: the Trobriands, the Amphletts, Woodlark, and the volcanic cones of the D’Entrecasteaux group. For centuries the peoples of these islands have been bound together by one of the most studied and misunderstood institutions in the…

Walk through any market in Papua New Guinea, from the highland towns of Mount Hagen and Goroka to the coastal streets of Lae and Port Moresby, and you will see the bilum everywhere. It hangs from the shoulders of schoolchildren, holds garden produce on the backs of women returning from the fields, cradles sleeping infants…

Cutting across the Owen Stanley Range of Papua New Guinea, the Kokoda Track is a narrow footpath roughly ninety-six kilometers long that links the village of Kokoda on the northern side of the mountains with Owers’ Corner, not far from Port Moresby, on the southern side. It climbs and descends through some of the most…

In the cool, high valleys of Papua New Guinea’s central mountains, coffee grows on tens of thousands of small family plots. It is not usually grown on vast estates but in the gardens and hillsides of ordinary rural households, a few hundred trees here, a small block there, tended alongside the sweet potato and vegetables…

Few social structures shape daily life in Papua New Guinea as deeply as the wantok system. The word “wantok” comes from Tok Pisin, the country’s most widely spoken lingua franca, and literally means “one talk” or “one language.” In practice it describes a web of obligations and loyalties that binds people who share a common…