Handicrafts Market

Port Moresby


Boroko’s dusty central square is a good place to buy bilums, a selection of Sepik carvings, stone axes, kina-shell breastplates, 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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