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We spent a day hopping on and off local transport and hitching rides with various people to visit the Dani tribes of the Eastern Baliem valley. Each family lives in a compound made of sticks and straw, keeping watch over their neighbours by climbing 10m high towers. They are protecting their pigs -the source of all wealth and status.
This part of central Papua is astonishingly beautiful. The skies are enormous, the light the best we’ve seen anywhere in the world.
Invited into villages, you see 250 yr old mummies, women in grass skirts (and nothing else), men naked except for the penis gourd, neatly tied around their waist.
And everywhere, mushroom shaped thatched huts. It should be a filmset, it should be like this just because the tourists want to see it. But this is life here.
This part of central Papua is astonishingly beautiful. The skies are enormous, the light the best we’ve seen anywhere in the world.
Invited into villages, you see 250 yr old mummies, women in grass skirts (and nothing else), men naked except for the penis gourd, neatly tied around their waist.
And everywhere, mushroom shaped thatched huts. It should be a filmset, it should be like this just because the tourists want to see it. But this is life here.
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