Discover Rabaul, Papua New Guinea

Rabaul is renowned for its dramatic volcanic landscape, set within a vast flooded caldera and dominated by active volcanoes like Tavurvur, whose eruptions have shaped both the land and the town’s resilient spirit.

You can sample local flavours like freshly caught tuna or taro, sweet potato and coconut-based dishes, often cooked in a traditional earth oven known as a mumu.

It’s home to the Yamamoto Bunker, a wartime command centre used by Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, where it is rumoured he spent his last night.