Simbu – On sleeping arrangements and ablutions
I have been lucky enough to have stayed in a few PNG villages now. Each village having its own uniqueness and its own brand of simplicity. I love the experience of the village life and hope to visit many more…
An unusual way to greet a visitor!
There are over 800 languages still spoken in Papua New Guinea and together with this incredible linguistic variety you will also find equally as many customs and traditions. Be it dance or dress, body language or ways of greeting. Papua New Guinea is a truly multicultural society…
Simbu – The men from Kaubasis
I would like to share with you a little bit about the men from “Kaubasis”…
Secret object…
The secret object I covered with a tea towel…
More on buai spitting and spot-fines…
Today I emailed the following story to both The National and Post Courier newspapers. My blog post dated Thursday, 13th of July and titled Simbu – Fined for spitting buai is the furst installment of a number of short stories that I intend to write about my recent trip to Eli’s father’s village “Kaubasis” in the Chuave District in Simbu…
Simbu – Photos (Trip up)
I have begun to post photos from last weeks trip up to “Kaubasis” village in Simbu…
And that’s the way things are in PNG…
The telephone network has been playing up for the past few days with the mobile netowk being totally unavailable. An email was circulated this morning which enlightened phone users as to the cause of this outage…
Simbu – Fined for spitting buai
Early Friday morning and time to hit the road again. Another trip up the Highlands Highway, each trip seems to get easier. I will always remember that 1st ride by PMV up to Goroka, in my blog post I might have described it as a new form of extreme sport. I still feel the same way today but having traveled to Goroka now half a dozen times, each trip seems to get that little bit easier…
Photos from my trip to “Bamata”"village…
Have now been all posted…
