Mount Hagen General Tips
Tips and photos for Mount Hagen vacations and tourism, posted by real travelers and Mount Hagen locals.
Local Time 8:57 am Saturday, July 19, 2008
Mount Hagen Map
Mount Hagen Map
on March 16, 2008
Mount Hagen itself is situated in the large Wahgi Valley along with coffee plantations and groves of beautiful casuarina trees.
What I liked about Mount Hagen was that its relative remoteness from the coastal areas enabled it to still retain the frontier atmosphere that is not long disappearing in most places discovered by the western world. My main problem was that (combined with early darkness near the equator) I usually did not have much leisure time to check out the many cultural and geographical things that the town offered. Most trips were in and out affairs to deal with maintaining as reliable a power system in all of the Highlands areas as could reasonably be expected under the circumstances.
