Porgera Valley Webcam - Porgera, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea - Web Cameras on Waymarking.com

Located at the Kairik Airport Terminal in Enga Province, this webcam looks west over the Porgera Valley. Mt Paiam is on the right of the view. The webcam itself is located at an elevation of 2,306 m. This is an interesting airstrip, which serves the Porgera Valley and also the famous Porgera Gold Mine. It is often totally encased in clouds (being near the equator, but at high elevation), but every now and then there are some simply amazing views. I did try to capture some of them.

A little more fun about the airport (Source: (visit link)

"Following the Porgera visit, the group arrived back at Kairik airport in the mid-afternoon where our two Tropicair charter aircraft (upper image) awaited. By now clouds were starting to enclose the valley and we had to depart before they descended and engulfed the rugged mountains and the cliffs of New Guinea Limestone (lower-right) that enclose the valley. We were soon aboard and taking off down the steep, "hockey-stick" runway and off the "ski-jump" at the end (lower-left) to climb out of the valley, up through a gap in the cloud cover and the 2 hour flight to Port Moresby. The tour officially ended on arrival at Jackson Airport in Port Moresby on the evening of Thursday 31 May, and the group had each made their own independent arrangements from there. However, due to the speed differential between the two aircraft, those in the B200 Super Kingair (left) arrived first and had dispersed before the C90 Kingair arrived (right), as we expected. Consequently we had said our goodbyes at Kairik before departure."

Now for the "Obscured by the Clouds" comment. Pink Floyd's 7th album was entitled "Obscured by the Clouds", and is the soundtrack to the movie "La Vallée", which takes place in Papua New Guinea.

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