Duviara Guesthouse is near the Duviara Conservation Area and at the start of the northern route to the crater lakes. It's a quiet place, cool and green at 500m elevation with cloud forest further up the mountain. Duviara is an excellent base for hiking and bird watching. Also ask about Paul's swimming hole, it's about 5 minutes walk from the guest house and ice cold.
Accommodation and Food
Duviara has one guesthouse built of local and modern materials with three rooms and one garden bungalow with a double bed. There's plenty of space and groups as large as eight people have been accommodated before.
The bungalows are lockable (you might bring a small padlock). There's no electricity. Candles and kerosene lamps are used for lighting. Bring a torch light. There are no mosquitos at Ambanga.
Duviara has a water supply connection. Paul has constructed a haos blong swim (bucket showers) and a satisfactory toilet (pit latrine with seat). Bring your own bath towel, soap and toilet paper.
Meals at Duviara Guesthouse may include rice, aelan taro, lap-lap taro, kumala, tin meat, chicken, freshwater prawns, bus kabis and salad. Breakfasts are tea or instant coffee with bread, gato or pancakes. The water supply source is in the mountains, it's clean and good to drink. If Paul is around there will be kava. Bring a raincoat or jacket and a warm top.
Transport
The dirt track from Lolosory to Ambanga is not good and trucks may not be able to drive up after rain (40 minutes walk). Duviara Guesthouse is 5 minutes walk past Ambanga. If you are walking, there's a shortcut road just west of the Lolopuepue Catholic Mission but it's steeper.
It's fairly straight-forward to walk down to Lolowai, mostly along truck roads (about 3 hours). It's also possible to walk this way to and from the airport (bypassing Lolowai) in about 4 hours. Unfortunately there's no easy shortcut to the Longana airport.