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DH Goes Diving
... some sort of Sea Hunt fantasy and forget to come back up. We joined a group of Japanese divers who had come to Madang for days of non-stop diving (the diving was spectacular but if you come all the way to PNG, wouldn't you want to see more than the deck of a dive boat). DH and I had our own dive guide and we got to dive with some pretty strong ocean currents- a first for us- and we saw first hand why PNG is such a desirable diving destination. We were told that ...
PNG Laughing is a national monument
... um falsetto agarrado, com certeza que carrega muitos sorrisos.
Existe um tema que quase sempre desencadeia este processo, no caso de se pretender observar os nativos a executá-lo:
Falar de relações, namoros, afecto. O risinho e risada em “A” antecipa as três etapas acima caracterizadas. No entanto, a transição entre etapas é muito mais rápida, sendo por vezes impossível ...
More facts and numbers about PNG life...
... 8221;ó camisola, vais ficar comigo mais um mesinho sem ver água que as monções só chegam para o próximo trimestre”;
Quando perguntamos as horas, recebemos os minutos! “passam 7 minutos e meio das 17”, é uma prática comum;
A gestão de expectativas relativamente a tempos de viagem, é das piores que o mundo tem visto: Se “deve demorar 10 minutos”, demora 40! Se “chegamos à hora de ...
Madang
... many
handicrap vendors by the dock. No chance to buy a postcard for
Isabel, to whom I have been sending one from each port. I noticed,
though, from a couple of videos Tara sent that Isabel seems more
interested in trying to eat the postcards than reading them.
The people of PNG, unlike those in all other South
Pacific Islands (at least as far as I know), are of African descent
rather than Malaysian. They were exceptionally friendly. All along
the dock ...
Great Day
... the weather in Cairns.
Papua New Guinea, simply called "PNG" by our experienced travelers, is the world’s third largest island after Greenland and Borneo. Its original inhabitants migrated from North Africa approximately 40,000 years ago. They were mostly gatherers and slowly developed some agricultural skills. They were not seafarers like the Polynesians; although, they ...


