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October 10th 2010

Published: October 10th 2010

A car full of young men screeched to a halt beside our bus and started shouting at all the people who had got off for a short break. Everyone quickly ran to the bus and pushing and shoving, started to clamber on. I turned to Howard and he shouted “Tribal fight!” and urged me to get back on the bus. With everyone looking on edge and all of the windows tightly shut we continued on a few hundr... Read Full Entry

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Tribal dress at Tari Markets

Tribal Dress

Tari Market

Kids at Tari Market

Everytime kids like these saw me in the Western Highlands they would shout out "Masta!".

Cuscus anyone? :P

Our bus driver stopped to buy some cuscus from a hunter. Cuscus are kind of like a possum.

Break down...

Even 4x4 brokedown. This one broke down 3 times actually... :P

With roads like this you can see why though! :P

Lake 2

Pointing to the summit which will have to wait for my next trip!

Waterfall

This waterfall was between the two lakes half way up the mountain.

Flying out of POM

Thank you PNG for an amazing 2 weeks!

10th October 2010

Colin
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Beautiful!
So great to read your commentary and see the amazing photos, Joel! What a great time you had with the local people, seeing things that many other visitors would never see!

12th October 2010

Aisyah Abidin
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awesome!
is that for real?? totally awesome!!

12th October 2010

Aisyah Abidin
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PNG!!
take me here!!

13th October 2010

Raghav
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Real experience!
Great to see your new post at TravelBlog! You look so happy at the waterfall. Seems like as authentic an experience as it gets to me, though I can't imagine how you clambered up barefoot like that. Gusto trumps all I guess.

23rd October 2010

Ahmed kabir
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treveling to png
reading out the above story on png traditional cultures that made me very much interesting, please send invitation letter from png

6th November 2010

Barbara
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Amazing Adventures!
This was great Joel! You continue to amaze us with your adventurous travels. You certainly had more of an insider view into life in PNG. Well done!

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