Five Top Views of Port Moresby You Can Drive To

Port Moresby is a tiny city by world standards; one could say it’s a 'village’ next to nearby cities such as Brisbane or Jakarta. The roads here don’t run very far.

In 10 - 30 minutes you can drive to the city limits and back home, where-ever you live. You could even do a circuit of the city in your vehicle and no one at home would have known you left.

But now and then we like to pretend that it’s a big city that sprawls forever. So we take an afternoon or a daytime drive with our friends, relatives, kids or family around the city, onto the top of the rolling hills so that we could have a good view of the city we live in.

These are some of my favorite views of Port Moresby.

1. The Crowne View

This is the old favourite of many of people in Port Moresby. At any time when driving up to the top of the hill where the Crowne Plaza Hotel is, you will see a vehicle or two just parked there with the occupants enjoying the view down to Ela Beach and over the ocean, with Manu Island in the distance. Its especially great in the morning as the sun rises over the city.


Great Views from the Top Of Ela Beach

2. Garden Hills over Waigani

If you take the left of the 4mile roundabout and head towards the Waigani tunnels, about 200 meters from the tunnel is informal market and a dusty, though sealed road on your left.

This is the Garden Hills road. If you follow this road up to the end, you will notice it does a circuit around a hill and back again.

If you follow the road up, there will be first a turn off on your right and then further up another turn off on your left up a dirt road. Ignore both of them and keep following the road as it goes around a bend and up the hill.

Here is where there is a turn off on your left, between well constructed houses. The road here is a dirt road. Follow this road up, turn right and keep driving straight up and over the hill.

You will come to a cul-de-sac. Stop your car and have a look. Here is one of the great views of city. You can look all the way to Morata.

In the evenings as the sun goes down, it’s quite spectacular as the city lights up.

	Garden Hills Views

3. Toguba Hill, Airvos Avenue

Lots of Papua New Guineas rich and famous live here. And for good reason. You have great views of the city and the ocean.

The road here is a both narrow and there is no real place except one, where you can park and have a look down the Konedobu suburbs and the large Hanuabada village.

Problem is that there is building being constructed here and this great view might be obscured in the near future.

At the top of Toguba Hill are some wide streets where you can take a peek at the sea towards Koki and Sabama or back over the Port Moresby Harbor.

Further along the drive, you get to feel real close to the large high rises of down town Port Moresby as you come down the hill into town.

Toguba Hill is not the best place to stop your car, but it’s a good drive with good views of this side of Port Moresby.


		Toguba Hill Views

4. Agua Drive, Koki Hill Views

If you drive up Lawes Road and at the top take the right down Agua Street and keep driving, you will come up the hill. The road goes straight but there is a turn off to the right.

Take that turn off and you are greeted with an unobscured view of Koki, Badilli, all the way to Sabama and the 2 mile Hills and the sea with Manu Island and other islands further out.

It is one of the great secret views of Port Moresby. There is this massive vacant grassland below you that adds to the depth.

I sometimes have my lunch up there because it’s also very quite.

5. Burns Peak - Freeway

When the Port Moresby Freeway was completed, people use to go for drives all day and all night and the highlight was climbing up the top of Burns Peak portion of the Freeway to either look down Kone way over the ocean or if they were heading the opposite direction, look down towards Hohola and Gordons and the hills in the distance.

The Freeway has a bad reputation these days because of the number of accidents that have happened here, but still their pleasure of driving over the top of the hill and looking down.