Papua Explorer

The most viewed photo in my stories this year, and therefore reposted here. The photo was taken in September and offers a glimpse into the traditional food gathering of the Korowai tribe, with an array of natural ingredients displayed on banana leaves. The items include:
🦎 A monitor lizard (Varanus species), hunted as a protein source.
🐟 Two snakehead fish (Channa species), a freshwater staple.
🌴 Palm hearts, harvested from the inner core of palm trees, a local delicacy.
🥚 Cassowary eggs, large and green, gathered from the nests of the native cassowary bird.
🐛 A pot filled with large edible sago grubs, prized for their high protein content.
🌿 Fresh green forest leaves.

Sentani Lake

Impressions from this year’s Baliem Valley Culture Festival, held from 7 to 9 August.
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Some photos of the fascinating Indonesian almond trees, often called ‘Kendari’. They have beautiful large above-ground roots that provide extra support, especially in the soft soils of tropical forests. As you can see, the Indonesian almond tree is really large, reaching considerable heights.
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In Maluku’s Banda Neira, the trees are often interplanted with much smaller nutmeg trees. Although the farmers focus primarily on the nutmeg crop, the almond trees play an important role by providing shade and shelter for the nutmeg, and the almonds are harvested as a valuable by-product.

The Dani huts, known as Honai, are traditional dwellings of the Dani people in the central highlands of Papua. These huts are made from natural materials like wood, straw, and grass, providing insulation and protection from the region’s cool mountain climate, and they are very cozy.

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Another stop by the river, on the way to somewhere you have never been, finding shelter in the house of a local villager. And I remember that hostility is what makes us animals, and hospitality is what makes us human.

15 August 2023, Tree house in Korowai-Papua

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