Qualla: Madang https://qualla.com/madang en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/d/madang-wk/hero-small.webp Qualla: Madang https://qualla.com/madang Madang: Introduction https://qualla.com/madang/ Photo credit eGuide Travel, CC BY 2.0. The airport closes at five in the afternoon, not because of darkness but because of the bats. Flying fox colonies roost in the town's big trees, and at dusk they boil out of the canopy in such numbers that a landing aircraft becomes a hazard to them, and they to it. This is how Madang announces itself: a working town of nearly 30,000 people that still bends its schedule around a mass migration of fruit bats. It is laid-back, green, and laced with the blue of a harbor that the old German administrators used to call Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen.

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/d/madang-wk/rppd-madang-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Madang: The Prettiest Town https://qualla.com/madang/ Photo credit Acred99, CC BY-SA 3.0. Madang has been called one of the prettiest towns in the South Pacific, and the claim holds up on a slow walk along the waterfront. The shoreline curves in and out of small sandy swimming spots shaded by large trees. The lagoon is protected seaward by Kranket Island. The water is...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/d/madang-wk/rppd-madang-the-prettiest-town.mp3 0:06 2 full Madang: The Market and the Highway https://qualla.com/madang/ Photo credit Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0. The center of Madang is a market, and the market is fed by a road. People come in every day from the PNG Highlands along a stretch of highway that climbs through some of the most spectacular mountain country on earth, bringing produce to sell and loading up with coastal goods to ...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/d/madang-wk/rppd-madang-the-market-and-the-highway.mp3 0:06 3 full Madang: Out From the Harbour https://qualla.com/madang/ Photo credit Mr Accountable, CC BY-SA 3.0. The real adventures start once you leave the town. Krangket Island, a five-minute boat ride from the small terminal and costing two kina, has no roads, two villages trimmed with hedges and flower gardens, and a lodge of two basic bungalows on a private beach that looks back at th...

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]]> Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/r/p/p/d/madang-wk/rppd-madang-out-from-the-harbour.mp3 0:06 4 full Madang: After Dark, After Six https://qualla.com/madang/ Photo credit Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0. Madang simplifies itself after sundown. There are no taxis. Walking the streets at night is not recommended. If you want dinner somewhere other than your hotel, you arrange a driver in advance to take you and collect you, and most travelers skip the errand entirely. Hotels and re...

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