Cluster · Port Moresby
Koki market & fish market
Only with a driver or guide, in daylight: the vegetable and fish markets are busy, cash-based and a place to keep valuables in the car.
Key facts
- 28″ bags
- forbidden
- Time budget
- half
- Rescue coverage
- 100% ≤7′
- max p90 6.1′
- Places
- 1
Rules in force · 9Do not walk between clusters or hail taxis on the street
- Oceania ↗Oceania's island states guard their farms and reefs at the border: tick 'yes' on the arrival card for any food, plant, animal product, soil or used outdoor gear, and let the officer decide.
- Oceania ↗Across the tropical South Pacific, cyclones are possible from November to April: choose insurance that covers weather delays and keep one spare night before a long-haul departure.
- Melanesia ↗Malaria is present in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and parts of Vanuatu (not Fiji or New Caledonia): ask a travel clinic about tablets before you go.
- Papua New Guinea ↗Every visitor needs a visa (an online e-visa, or a visa on arrival for a short list of passports) and must file the free Digital Arrival Card before landing: check the PNG Immigration and Citizenship Authority for your passport before booking.
- Papua New Guinea ↗Some governments advise against travel to parts of the Highlands provinces because of tribal fighting; check your own government's current advice before you go.
- Papua New Guinea ↗Almost all land is customary: ask permission before walking, swimming or photographing, and expect to pay fees to landowners.
- Port Moresby and Central Province ↗Check your own government's current advice for the capital and Central Province before booking; advice changes.
- Port Moresby ↗Do not walk between clusters or hail taxis on the street: use a hotel car or a driver booked through your hotel or operator, door to door, and stay in daylight.
- Port Moresby ↗Check your own government's current travel advice before you book: crime in the capital is serious and advice changes.
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Walking weather, next 5 days
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Plan
How the ground walks, and what is here
Bound and physics
The market area and the shore beside it (approximate box).
- Slope
- flat
- Stairs
- None
- Shade
- low
- Surface
- unpaved and cracked ground
- Sleep here or visit
- visit
Eat and drink here
Fresh fruit, roast corn and cooked fish sold beside the market: buy a small snack with your driver or guide beside you, and eat it in the car.
On the ground
Where to rest, how to leave, where to sleep nearby
Rescue anchors
A rescue anchor is a spot where you can stop and recover if the walk goes wrong: a bench, a café, a toilet. Every letter on the map is one anchor, and each has a card below. We check that any point in the cluster is within about 7 minutes’ walk of one, so you are never far from somewhere to sit down.
Lettered circles: rescue anchors (green works in any conditions, amber only on hot days). Dashed outline: the cluster. Red dots: spots more than 7 min from any anchor. Drag to move; click the map, then scroll to zoom.
Market shelter
Place to sit · Shelter from rain · works in any conditions
Covered stall row
Place to sit · Shelter from rain · works in any conditions
Shop, AC (field-verify)
Place to sit · Food & drink · ac · works in any conditions
Roadside bench
Place to sit · works in any conditions
Store, AC
Food & drink · ac · works in any conditions
Food stall
Place to sit · Food & drink · works in any conditions
100% of the cluster is within 7 min of an anchor in any conditions (slowest walker, worst cell 6.1 min) · 100% on hot days
Nodes in this cluster
- Go only with a driver or guide who waits, in the morning, with small notes and no valuables: a working market for fish and vegetables, not a place to browse alone.
Edges out
| To | How | p50 | Climb |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town & Ela Beach | Car or taxi | ~10 min | flat |
| Waigani: National Museum & Parliament | Car or taxi | ~23 min | flat |
| Boroko shops & hospital area | Car or taxi | ~12 min | flat |
Red lines here
- Go only with a driver or guide; leave valuables at the hotel.
Deep dive
Around this cluster
Straight-line distance; walk time adds 30% for streets.