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Asia » Indonesia » West Papua September 23rd 2009

As the Sams and I were on our way to Papua we started one of those conversations that tends to happen at least once on long trips - discussing all the food we are missing. Cheese…burritos…all Mexican food…cheese…pizza…mmm cheese. There is definitely much more bread than I was expecting. but on a whole Indonesians are grossed out by cheese and dairy products so they have been a little hard to find. On our first day in Jayapura, the capital of Papua, we were walking around and we saw a sign for Pizza Hut. We all looked at eachother…Pizza Hut?? Really??? We were JUST discussing all that cheese; it was like our prayers were answered! So we set off walking in the direction the sign was pointing. After an unsuccessful few minutes we tried to ask people, ... read more
Sam making friends
Our first homestay
Dani Man at Funeral

Asia » Indonesia » West Papua September 11th 2009

Hello all! From now on we will start writing our blog in English as we are meeting a lot of fellow travellers from all around the world that want to follow our blog….Perhaps this can be a good occasion for the mums to practise their English??? For those same worried mums, don’t worry: we have survived Papua and are still alive and kicking. We have just arrived in Darwin, Australia and will be picking up our campervan tomorrow morning. And then these boys are on the road again for another three weeks touring in Australia! Papua seemed more like Africa then Asia: the people were very dark black skinned and have the same frizzled hair as black people do. I guess there must be a migration history of some kind between Papua and Africa or perhaps ... read more
dani man
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