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Please Take A Picture!!
... an anniversary was apparently such a surprise that no one was told about it, and if they were 20 people in attendance I'd be shocked. On Saturday maybe 200 people showed up, and on Sunday the attendance dropped back down again. Both DH and myself ranked this festival as the best we had ever seen and it ranks as one of our best experiences ever- it's the type of event that would draw thousands if it were held anywhere else- I don't know how PNG engineers a fix to ...
We're Not In Kansas Anymore
... deadbolts as well as patrolling security guards. Even the check-in desk has a roll-down mesh protection (presumably in place if the hordes were spotted on the horizon. Short of catapults and a moat filled with boiling oil, I have never felt so protected from the outside world (was it truly necessary??). The common area was quite nice but the rooms were basic if not a little worn out- security appears to be chewing up a ...
Meeting the chief and his pigs, and his wives.
... br> Last stop of the day was to see the mud men, these were really weird. It seems the story goes, many years ago 2 tribes had a fight and the tribe that lost ran away to the hills and the winners took all their land. After a while the chief of the people that lost realised that they could not live on the side of the mountain as their crops didn’t grow, but the were not strong enough to fight the people on their land. So he got ...
PNG let the adventure begin
... what altitude we are at but we must be quite high. Arriving in PNG for the first time was a bit like the first time we went to India, everything is just so different and so alien to us, but then that is why we travel to places like this. There were 100’s of people outside the airport with their faces pushed up against the wire fence waiting for their friends or relatives to get off the plane, our guide was ...
At Sea
Saturday 28th February - Day 46 - At Sea We are presently on a northerly course towards Guam our next port of call in two days time. We are passing through he Bismark Sea and are approximately 750 nautical miles (1.15 land miles) south of Guam. The sea has a very gentle roll to it albeit the ship is moving quite a bit. We crossed the equator just before mid-day today which probably means that from now on throughout the cruise the air temperature will decrease and when ...


