About every 2 weeks we head into Mt. Hagen to run errands. It’s about an hour and a half away.

It’s the 3^{rd biggest city in PNG and yet this is the only multi-story building in town}

Usually our first and last stop are to use the bathrooms at the Highlander Hotel, the ritziest place in Hagen which gets a lot of international travel

Across the street is the PMV stop, where I would go if I wasn’t riding with the Lutz’s

One of the local stores

Air Niugini, the friendly folks that help us book our airline tickets

There’s just as much advertising here as in the States. The only difference is that there’s less products to advertise, so more repetition

The Star Restaurant, owned by some friends in Mambisanda, and where we normally go for lunch

Inside The Star

Lots of fast food grease- yum

Today’s Hagen trip requires a trip out to the airport. Some people we see along the way

The airport

One of the MAF light planes similar to the one that will bring Dr. Steve back from the Penale today

Next stop, the market

All kinds of good fruits and veggies

Ginger, passion fruit, cucumbers

Pumpkins (yes, those are pumpkins), green beans, meri blaus’s

Pineapples (one of my favorites)

Sugar cane

Chickens

It might look at little different than the local HEB, but the food is so good and so cheap

Time to head home

One of the women we see as we pass. She’s carrying that whole load of wood with her bilum on her head

What a great day in Hagen and a great view on the ride home