There are two ways to get to the city of Goroka from our campus...both involve lots of potholes, ditches, bumps and dirt (that's including the paved sections). We normally just stick to one route, though, and after four years of living here and never having travelled the other way, I knew it was time to explore. Not being able to drive here, I began dropping hints to the guys on campus (our "chauffeurs") and one day I finally got my chance. We'd been in town doing some errands, and not being in a rush to get back home we decided to take the scenic route back. There really isn't an un-scenic route around here but having never been on this road before it held some adventure for me (and sometimes you just need to see your every day life from a different perspective).
There's a set of tree-less hills that we can see from our campus that always (except for in burning season) look lush and green, and I'd often looked longingly in their direction (humming "The hills are alive..." and picturing myself bounding through their grass). The back road takes us right behind these hills so we, of course, had to stop.
The only leaping and bounding we did was over these ditches.
Interface is right in the center of this picture (you can see several white and green rooves).
This is a view of the hills (at far right during burning season) from our campus.
We had a clear, almost 360 degree view of the valley where you can see the town of Goroka in the distance.
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