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Papua New Guinea – My final few days and some final thoughts (Aug 20th, 21st, and 22nd)

Emotionally recovering from the remarkable experience at the Mount Hagen Cultural Festival, the last evening, after we flew back to Port Moresby, was spent having a delicious group dinner – though with horrendously slow service – at a local restaurant named “Bacchus.”  Yup – kind of a weird name, given our locale, made even weirderContinue reading “Papua New Guinea – My final few days and some final thoughts (Aug 20th, 21st, and 22nd)”

Papua New Guinea – Days Eleven and Twelve: The Mount Hagen Cultural Festival (Aug 19 & 20)

Back in the early 1960’s, a group of tribes from around the Western Highlands Province met in Mount Hagen.  While it appears to be difficult to uncover the true history of this meeting, it seems that, originally, it was designed to help calm the animosities between and among various tribes. The Mount Hagen Cultural FestivalContinue reading “Papua New Guinea – Days Eleven and Twelve: The Mount Hagen Cultural Festival (Aug 19 & 20)”

Papua New Guinea – Day Five (Aug 13)

Day five started with an early flight from Port Moresby to Mt Hagen, a city in the Western Highlands province. The flight up took about an hour and the airport sits at about 5,500 feet, while our lodge, which overlooks the Wahgi Valley, sits at 7,100 feet. Our time over the next few days willContinue reading “Papua New Guinea – Day Five (Aug 13)”