Yamamoto's Bunker

 We woke up in Rabual which is a volcanically plagued town in the outer islands of Papua New Guinea. We could see the cinder cone that destroyed this town in 1994. The other claim to fame is that the Japanese made it their Pacific HQ. Yamamoto setup camp here due to the great harbour and flat ground for an airstrip.  We walked to his bunker and then into the town for a total of 7km and we werew drenched in sweat. We had an unnerving experience in the bunker. It is a concrete sweat box. The main rooms are not cool but some of the rabbit warren staircases are stifling. We are also much larger bodies fitting thru their openings. We emerged into a higher concrete roofed room and the light on the phone went off. This room was way to hot and now jet black. We retreated backwards down the stairs and got the light back on.  There was also a museum next door with much faded documentation of Japanese atrocities on Australian soldiers. We got back to the boat for a lazy afternoon.