Port Moresby
This is the best market in PNG, with items from all over the country – with more carvings, baskets, stone tools, adornments, shells and weavings than you…
Must-see shopping in Papua New Guinea
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Port Moresby
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…
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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…
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New Britain
It’s worth stopping at Le Riche Colours if you are after some original souvenirs. Artist Nathalie Le Riche has very colourful hand-painted T-shirts, gift…
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Papua New Guinea
Obweria village specialises in intricately carved ebony walking sticks, many decorated with pearl-shell inlays. Ebony is an extremely hard and brittle…
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Papua New Guinea
Yalaka village sells striking lime pots (gourds decorated with a distinctive black pattern and fitted with a boar's tusk stopper). Price varies, depending…
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Port Moresby Grammar School Craft Market
Port Moresby
A monthly event with carvings, tribal adornments, bilums and other paraphernalia from different parts of PNG. Good crowds and a party atmosphere.
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Papua New Guinea
Bwetalu village produces particularly fine stools and tables made of kwila, a local hardwood. You may get away with carrying a small stool home.
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Papua New Guinea
The market has fruit and vegetables as well as some clothing, bilums and local shell jewellery.
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Papua New Guinea
It’s possible to buy snorkelling gear from the sports shop in Beckzle Plaza.
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