Yule Island Getting there & around

Getting there & away

PMVs leave Monday, Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday from Port Moresby’s Erima PMV stop for Poukama (K13, four hours) and ­connect with the waiting dinghies which will run you to the island for K5. Poukama is little more than a car park and barter market located down a dirt road 38km past Agivairu and about 160km from Moresby.

To continue towards Kerema you have to catch a Port Moresby-bound PMV back to Agivairu and transfer there (at Anna Pino’s store) onto a Malalaua–bound vehicle. If they are all full and this proves impossible, it is safer to continue all the way to Port Moresby and retrace your steps the following day as the Hiritano has experienced recent raskol (bandit) activity.