I am now residing Port Moresby New Guinea where I'm on contract for a couple of years.
Roads or tracks are NOT plentiful here and it's very limited where you can go overland unless you walk, however there are properly about 3-400 km of roads out of Port Moresby all up.
As far as I can gather there are 2 Yamaha 600 XT's, one BMW K100, a couple of old Yamaha 650 road bikes and a few (7 or 8) 125 trail bikes here. I'm trying to get hold of one of the XT 600 but it ain't easy to track down.
The crime rate here is relatively high but with some precaution I think (hope) we will be OK.
There is no sexual discrimination here when it comes to rapes, as both sexes are being raped, this might be my chance, serious though it is a bit of a worry and you do NOT! venture out at night very much and then only in your car on the main roads (with all doors locked and most expat's are armed) sounds like fun eh.
However like all places it's only a few who make it hard for everybody else and generally the people are friendly.
The other side of the Island have a more extensive road system with roads going up to the highlands and up/down the coast, only trouble is that you will have to fly or ship your vehicle there.
Well it gives me time for fishing and dreaming up my next MC trip and with Australia only 2 hours flying time away (Cairns) there are plenty of opportunities.
I still have this burning desire to bike around Siberia so maybe it's time to get A into G and stop dreaming.
ll's pretty hot here with temp of around 32C being the norm and we haven't seen a cloud in 9 months, pretty good bike weather. However we now have a drought on our hand with relief aid being flown in daily by the Australian army / air-force.
Power cuts happens about 3 to 15 times a day sometimes lasting up to 4 hours so work-wise it can be pretty hard to get anything done, but I guess that why its a third world country.
(Regarding shipping your bike from my home island of New Zealand to Australia)
If you time it right the bike can be shipped across in about one week depending which port you are using (the physical sailing time is about 3 days). You do NOT need to do anything to your bike apart from draining the petrol tank and fill out the appropriate custom papers but the shipping agent will help with these.
KIM
Note: this letter has been edited by TYNDA
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