Sunday, October 24, 2010

PNG trip

Back from our trip to PNG -  we were on a small cruise ship  that went to some out of the way places such as Alotou ( Milne Bay) , the Bismark archipelago , the Duke of York Islands  and ended up at Rabaul. What an  amazing place to visit-  people living in a traditional subsistence way  without any access to electricity, shops, cars,  let alone such things as tv or the internet. The welcome was amazing - some places had only had been visited by 3 cruise ships in 10 years and there were young children who had never seen Europeans. The diving on the coral reefs was generally good as were the WW2 wrecks that we got to see whilst snorkeling. Of interest to me was what foods they were mainly eating. Apart from lots of coconut, there was taro, cassava, yams, bananas and different types of green leafy vegetables. Protein was from fish or chickens. There were no overweight Papuans where we visited. More later and some photos.

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