Market series – Kokopo market

With having visitors in July to take photos, I have some market photos from various markets, so I’m going to post a series of market blog posts.

First up is the Kokopo market (near Rabaul). It is really nice and it’s HUGE! There are different shelters for different categories, eg. Fruit, Vegetables, Crafts.

Now for the photos…

Bananas, greens, coconuts, peanuts and kaukau:

Shelter and food in the aisles – spot Dad and me!

Lovely bright display of small capsicums:

Greens, long beans, spring onions and green beans:

Kokopo pier and volcano

When walking along this pier at Kokopo, you want to make sure you look at where you are putting your feet.

It’s a slightly scary pier to walk along.

But at the end of it, you can get a good view of the Rabaul volcanoes.

The way back to land - doesn't look so scary in this photo.

Yummy cakes!!

Wow! Look at these cakes at a shop in Kokopo! It’s almost unbelievable. When I went to Kokopo/Rabaul with Mum and Dad I was excited by a lot of things at the shops. Rabaul has so much more in the way of products at the shops than we have here in Buka, so it’s very different. It may be fairly normal to see these kinds of cake displays in Australia, but we certainly don’t have cakes like this in Buka.

Volcanoes and Kokopo

(Pictured above are the volcanoes at Rabaul, which are still active).
 
Kokopo is the new town built after Rabaul was buried in ash in 1994, although I believe there are some businesses operating in Rabaul again. I stayed in Kokopo for 3 nights on my way to Buka. I really only had two whole days there, and on those days I visited town and did some shopping (where I was staying was a little bit out of town).
 
The food shops in Kokopo were brilliant. The best I've seen in PNG so far. They had a lot of products on the shelves that we can buy in Australia, for example, Kantong brand sauce packets. They had everything I could possibly want to buy for cooking with.
 
I also went to the second hand clothes store and bought more clothes for me to wear while I am at Buka. I realised that I didn't really have very much with me. I am really happy with the two skirts I got and I think I will be keeping them for a while.