By MALUM NALU
Goroka brings back so many memories for me.
Took a drive around town after arriving last Saturday, April 28, 2012, which was quite emotional for me.
It was 10 years ago, in 2002, that my late wife Hula and our two baby sons left Goroka for a new life in Port Moresby after four wonderful years.
Here are some of the pictures I took last Saturday.
Goroka brings back so many memories for me.
Took a drive around town after arriving last Saturday, April 28, 2012, which was quite emotional for me.
It was 10 years ago, in 2002, that my late wife Hula and our two baby sons left Goroka for a new life in Port Moresby after four wonderful years.
Here are some of the pictures I took last Saturday.
This is the road leading from Goroka Airport to town. Do you see any buai pekpek or litter like Port Moresby, the filthiest capital city in the world? |
Driving along Peace Park |
The Highlands Highway runs right through town |
Peace Park, Goroka, where we would sit under the cool pine and gum trees and watch planes take off and land. It's called Peace Park because warring tribes come here to make peace! |
The main Highlands Highway at West Goroka shopping centre. |
West Goroka Shopping Centre, still the same after all these days (albeit old and rundown), and which take me back to my childhood days as far back as 1975. |
A bit of a goat track beside the hospital |
Leigh Vial Street towards Goroka Base Hospital |
Goroka Post Office, one of the many remaining pre-independence buildings which still survive. I know, because I was a pre-independence child of Goroka! |
Town |
A lazy Saturday afternoon in town |
This is the main street of Goroka town on Saturday. It's so clean compared to the buai pekpek of Port Moresby and certainly puts the flithy capital city of PNG to shame! |
Goroka last Saturday with Gouna Building in the background. |
Clouds over Goroka, always a beautiful sight |
A Saturday arvo stroll in Town |
Town on a Saturday |
After all the 'buai pekpek' of Port Moresby, it was a breath of fresh air to come to Goroka, where the place seems to be so clean. And the beautiful perfumed flowers |
What do you notice in this picture, taken in the heart of Goroka town on Saturday? The place is very clean and the flower garden is not full of buai pekpek and litter like Port Moresby! |
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