Port Moresby Shopping

  1. Beyond Art

    In Town, Beyond Art is small and pricy.

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  2. Ela Beach Craft Market

    This is the best market in PNG, with all the paintings, carvings, baskets, shells and weavings you can poke a koteka (penis gourd) at. Barbecued food and traditional dancers (about ) contribute to the carnival atmosphere.

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  3. Handicrafts Market

    Boroko's dusty central square is the best place to buy bilums , Highland hats, carvings, kina-shell breast plates, shell jewellery and the like. Moresby's sellers are used to the ways of tourists and will happily engage in some friendly negotiation, but protracted haggling is considered rude.

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  4. PNG Arts

    The long-running PNG Arts warehouse has a huge collection of wares from all over the country. The prices are reasonable, credit cards are accepted and freight and documentation can be organised.

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  7. UPNG Bookshop

    Sadly, there is only one decent bookshop in Port Moresby: the UPNG Bookshop and even that shop stocks mostly coursework materials and academic texts. Top-end hotels have a few overpriced books and there are a couple of duty-free shops at the airport (past Immigration) that have some decent books on PNG. Make sure you bring your own reading material because you can't even buy a trashy airport novel in Port Moresby.

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