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Baliem Valley and the Dani Tribes on Papua.
... missionaries we’ve seen a handful of tourists. All in all we had a great time but it is time to start a new chapter: Indonesia. We took our last PMV ride to the border with a few military stops on the way. Customs on both sides went smoothly and as ...
Raja Ampat
... : Diving Indonesia (a guide to the world's greatest diving), Periplus Action Guide, Kal Muller. More Information about Irian Jaya Dive, contact: Sorong, Indonesia Office: Papua Diving. Phone: +62 (411) 401 660, Fax: +62 (951) 325 274. ...
Baliem Valley - Papua
Once you read or give it a deeper study to Danis way of life, dont be surprise that you may find your eye lifting or forehead wrinkling. Why? Because the Dani is uniquely amazing.The Dani men and women sleep separately in different honai (Danis ...
The Raja Ampat Islands
... , or "Four Kings," archipelago encompasses more than 9.8 million acres of land and sea off the northwestern tip of Indonesia's West Papua Province. Located in the Coral Triangle, the heart of the world's coral reef biodiversity, the seas around Raja ...
The Last Civilization
... bit. Very few people in Wamena speak English, and I managed to get by on my very limited knowledge of Bahasa Indonesia. I don’t think I could have survived without it, actually. (Thanks Tiffany!) Walking around Wamena also made me realize that I ...
My Mother's Travels - Irian Jaya
I am beginning at the beginning ie with my mother -- a world traveler all her life. Born in 1925 she left home at 18 and went to Mexico to learn Spanish and see the ancient ruins. The profile pic was taken in 2000. Part of a small group (I think it ...
The World As It Once Was
I took an overnight flight from Jakarta to the easternmost and arguably the most remote island in Indonesia, Papua. (Note: This occurred before the previous blog entry (Wamena) but I returned to Jayapura after Wamena and did not feel it necessary to write ...
Incredible Papua ...My Timika times
Satu Desember 2006 gw appointed untuk project di Timika. Ga pernah terbayangkan untuk bisa menginjakkan kaki di negri paling timur Indonesia ini (secara gw orang paling barat Sumatera). Perjalanan membutuhkan waktu lebih 6 jam dari Jakarta - Surabaya - ...
The dodgy border crossing
... mim), como és branco, só te leva por 100.000 Rupias! Mandei-o dar uma volta!”...e deixou escapar um “Quando a Papua garantir a independência face à Indonésia, ele vai ser o primeiro que vou matar! Na Indonésia são todos assim”. ...
Corruption, crime and cock gourds
... , particularly, waiting. It then took a further 5 days obtaining a new visa and getting to my proper destination, Baliem Valley, central Papua. With 6 days remaining on my Indonesian visa I had plenty of time to dash to Papua New Guinea and get a new one, ...
Strange routines, strange behavior
O John Wesley é um senhor especial, diz. É verdade, especialmente as rotinas que tem que não devem nada à normalidade. Até devem, mas é complicado perceber um conjunto de coisas com que tive de conviver durante estes vários dias. Em ...
Home Sweet Home...again
Mais uma vez, o conforto de uma casa, a longo prazo...5 dias, hoje em dia é “longo prazo”. A convite do John, fiquei no seu quarto alugado, por cerca de 48 euros por mês. A casa fica nas entranhas da entrada de Abepura, onde as ...
The first Indonesian postcards
... . Por isso mesmo, preços fixos? Não vai dar...se for possível fazer mais dinheiro com quem não fala bahasa indonesia. Os bimos levam 10, 14, o que for, pessoas. As motas transportam 3,4,5 pessoas, mercadoria. Muitos condutores acumulam competências ...
West Papua
... was "Dutch New Guinea" under the Netherlands rule which ended in the 60s. The Dutch intention was to bring West Papua to independence but Indonesia threatened to go to war and ended up taking control of it. As other governments trying ...
The Dani's from Baliem valley
... met a nice family offering me a bed and dinner. Just a little warm up session for the feet. After a great dinner with this Papua family and a good night of sleep I woke up early, cleaned a bit in the river nearby (no bathroom here) and ...
Primitive Papua
... the Baliem valley, and I was instantly invited to a soft drink. Almost all the officers came from other parts of Indonesia and not from Papua, as are most people who have a job which requires special training, and even many shop assistants. It seems that ...
Off to Irian Jaya
I arrived safely into Jayapura at about 2pm today. The flight was very scenic with a series of picturesque, tropical islands giving way to massive, jungle covered mountains without a trace of human existence for miles and miles. Immediately I was met ...
Free Time Bonanza
... encouraged to ask me questions in English. It wasn't long before they just started asking me questions in Bahasa Indonesia which were translated into English by the teacher. The questions were about America---its population, government, weather ...
End of the Trek
... to write another trip summary, here is an excerpt from an e-mail I sent to my friend Katie. ---------------- so...trekking in Papua. Let's see----for starters its expensive like $1000 for 11 days for 2 people, everything included---guide, cook, 2.5 ...
The need to talk
O último mês de PNG e Papua na Indonésia desenvolveram uma necessidade absolutamente brutal de falar, sem filtros, limitações, contenção de conteúdos, sem reservas, com alguém que perceba o meu contexto, com alguém que não pense que sou ...
Funny T-Shirts and Travel Warnings
... visa to Papua New Guinea (PNG) so that I can do a visa-run over there, obtain a new Indonesian visa and then return to Indonesia. Other than that I am still running errands which is lots of fun as usual. I swear that at least 500 people say hello to me ...
Kind People
... $80 so that he can take classes and improve his English. I really feel that with better English he can make a difference here in Papua where people are so poor. I know it sounds cheesy but it is how I feel and I have never felt better about giving ...
Into the Breach
Tomorrow I begin an 11 day trek into the Baliem Valley with a Japanese guy I met, a local Papuan guide and 3 porters. We will be sleeping in traditional huts in traditional villages where former cannibals live. Then on the way back we are somehow ...
Happy Birthday Dad
Happy Birthday Dad. I love you. I took a passenger ferry from Jayapura to Pulau Biak where I have been relaxing, fighting off the mosquitos, trying to locate some of the WW II relics that are suppose to be here and generally having a good time. ...
The Final Frontier
... 's best diving. Sitting at the heart of the 'Coral Triangle' (an area stretching from the Philippines to Indonesia to east beyond Papua New Guinea and considered to be the global epicenter of marine biodiversity), Raja Ampat is home to over ...
Papua Diving: Sorido Bay Resort - The Diving
... how another culture lives and thrives! Frankly, there was no way we could improve on the descriptions provided by Papua Diving. We experienced what they described, nothing was exaggerated, and now let's go below and see what ...
Papua Diving: Sorido Bay Resort - The Resort
... four main islands Misool, Salawati, Batanta and Waigeo. It is a part of the newly named Papua province of Indonesia which was formerly called Irian Jaya. Raja Ampat's pristine beauty, both above the water and ...
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