Farwell and goodbye

Farwell Papua!

OMG! I just met Justin Wellington! Okay, his not that big… actually, I haven’t heard of him before I came to Papua, but he’s always on the radio, and he was so nice! I got a hug and his autograph. Plus, he asked me about my vacation! He isn’t really from Papua New Guinea, he is from Australia, but he grew up here, and he also speaks pidgins. He wanted to come and see some of the victims, he sang for us also. This is the song he sang for us.

As my days here in Papua are coming to an end, I wished to go see the Huli clan again. We really bonded, even though I couldn’t actually have any deep conversations whit them; I feel I grew close to a group of humans that showed me a different way of life, and showed me to live in the now, to be present, but that meeting was never to happen, I may not even ever see them again. The day before I had planned to meet them me and my cousin went for a hike with some tourists from Australia and New- Zealand. We had just set up our tents by the “Black Cat Track”, when they came. After that it all just happened so quick, I remember a man with painted face jumping towards me, I think he was carrying a machete. Then I hit my head. I remember waking up, remember the bodies of our guidance, our desperation, and I remember falling in and out of consciousness. Here’s the article.

It’s been a long and fantastic vacation, though it didn’t end the best possible way. Now I’m just looking forwards to going home.

Sources:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/papuanewguinea/10301153/Tourists-attacked-by-machete-wielding-men-in-Papua-New-Guinea.html, 11.sept.13

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8Lvx9JebI8, 26.may.08

Hi everybody!

I am having the best of times! Every day I learn and experience so much new, and exiting. I've been spending some days with a Huli clan (Papuan people) and I've felt like dying the hole time, but only because it's all so exiting and fantastic. Before I came I was very curious about another group of Papuan people, but I quickly learnt that they still live very isolated, and that they're cannibals! There are plenty different ethnic groups here, but I settled with visiting a Huli clan, the Hulis still live, or at least I thinks very isolated, but some of them know a couple of English words. I've learnt lots about them, amongst other; their rear family system; one young kid pointed to four different women and said: "mom", then to different guys and said: "dad". I've read enough about them to know that they look at all aunts and uncles as moms and dads, they also look at half-siblings and cousins as normal siblings, which must be confusing.

Here am I showing two very nice Holis my cam, the one on the left is the back leader. http://absolutetravel.com/2011/10/our-adventure-with-the-mudman-in-manhattan/, 27.okt.2011

What more is...? I got to go hunting! Or, I didn't get to join the guys, they would raise their hands when I was to stop and be quit. I didn't understand what they were doing most of the time, but suddenly they had caught something big brown/black that looked like a wild pig. They called it "Sus Papuensis", I searched it up, and it's Papua New Guineas principal livestock.

Here's a Sus Papuensis I saw some days ago, though, then I didn't know what it was. http://www.batraciens-reptiles.com/sus%20scrofa2.jpg, 17.nov.13

Yesterday at the hunt, I held my breath for hours, but it tasted fantastic! https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_susl-eENIj75sWGV0lZckuub0HZe-aDvXSsCYP2_heAma63eRMGqv5QHQomgQ4ducGdBiIk5dipmR7OejDk_bzhiLWmn8fJBZh_7HQcsvNCT-4Cw5xxUxNyU3fk5vnN1yleku84umSsk/s1600/Mutuaga_pork.jpg, 09.aug.11

Before I left the city I couth up some Melanesian music that I really like, you should listen to it! I have had this thing to that kind of music since I was little; it may have something to do with the movie "Lilo and Stich".

My plans forwards now is to go from "Lae" (where I am now) Kandrian, Buin and Losula wich is on some other small isles, the plan is to end up in Alotau where I'll stay a while before I find my way back to the capital for the flight home, but there are tons of place for changes in that plan.

Sourses:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papuans, 3.sept.13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroli_people, 14.nov.13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_New_Guinea, 19.nov.13

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Papua_New_Guinea, 18.okt.13
http://snl.no/Papua_Ny-Guinea, 16.may.13
http://www.papuanewguinea.travel/GettingAround, 17.okt.13

A little update here from Papua

Boa tarde!

So, I've already been here in Papua New Guinea for five days, and my god time flies fast! My first reaction was the smells and the air, like always when I walk of the plain it takes me by suprise, it's like being in a balloon where all the air suddenly goes out and the walls of the balloon presses tight against your body. 
I met up with my cousin (that decided to live here after a visit when she was nineteen) early the first morning, and learned a couple of interesting facts about the country;

The first European to see the country was a Portuguese man with name Antonio d'Abreu in 1511, that's why I started out with "Boa tarde" (Portuguese for good evening). Also I learnt that Papua ew Guinea is the country with the most different languages; 820 tribal language, but thats not even the amazing part; Papua new guinea constitutes 12% of the total languages of the world! I also both learnt and found out that not too many actually speak English here, it's only the education system and government that uses it.

Right now I'm sitting in the lobby in a hotel in Olatau (out on the tip of the isle) where they have free WI-FI, so I've used the opportunity to read a little something about the population and lifespan of the men and women, and I wasn't really blown away when I saw how low the death rate were.


the population in Papua New Guinea, http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/papua-new-guinea-population-pyramid-2012.gif, 12.nov

I mean, compared to Norway, you can really see the difference, but I guess that's just how it is; you take a poor country, and there will be born lots of babies, but they'll die, and you take a rich country, there won't be so many births, but once they is born they survive, the country may even be so good to live in that there will come grownups from all around the world to live there.


the poupulation in Norway, http://www.indexmundi.com/graphs/population-pyramids/norway-population-pyramid-2012.gif, 12.nov.13



Sources:
http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papua_Ny-Guinea, 1.april.13

Preparing the big journy to Papua new Guinea

Hi guys!

I've been preparing for my big adventure quit a long time now; the more I learn about the country, the more exited I get. And guess what! Today I ordered the plane tickets! There's a long flight though, and I'm flying with Norwegian from "Gardemon", and will be changing flight in Amsterdam, then again in Hong-Kong, that's the last one luckily and will take me all the way to Port Moresby, the capital of Papua New Guinea. Together I had to pay 14 464NOK for the trip.

Of course I've taken all vaccines, The stifcramp I already had, so these are the vaccines I took: (taken directly from "Vaksinekart.org") Hepatitt A, Hepatitt B, Difteri, pertussis, polio, typhoid fever, Yellow fever, Japanese encephalitis, Malaria, BCG-vaccine + Rabies. Hopefully I won't get sick on my journey!

The first three days I'll just be staying in the capital on a three star hotel, just chilling out and being a complete tourist. I've booked a room at "Raintree Lodge". What I really look forwards to is how exiting the vacation gets when you only book the first hotel, 'cuss then you never know exactly where you're going to get, even though you have an idea of where you want to go. 

I couldn't have laid up the trip like this if it hadn't been for "booking.com" though, that site is gold worth, and haven't failed me once. I love it, not only because that the hotels are nice, but because it's just so easy to use, during my last vacation I booked all my hotels over the phone. All you need to do is type inn place and price (which for me will be max 1000NOK per night) and boom! I won't spend much money on food, and definitely not on shopping! My goal is to see as much as I can of the country, using as little money as I can, I'll be hitch-hiking to get around and I will make my food myself. Of course I have both set aside some money in case of emergency, and a daily account for food and whatever (200NOK), which I will try to not use all of.

A map over the world, that shows Papua new guinea http://www.papuanewguinea.net/MAP/NiuginiMap520.gif

Sources:

http://www.booking.com/hotel/pg/raintree-lodge.no.html?aid=309654;label=Hotell-no-e-vUXcKQYRCUMQdKv_OGub9QS25596664972%3Apl%3Ata%3Ap1%3Ap2362.000%3Aac%3Aap1t2%3Aneg;sid=da686c34cb1475e3a72af08821b9f5ce;dcid=1;srfid=8614b5c09d9cf53f1493f7d66727b29b5559f1adX1, 5.nov.13

http://wikitravel.org/en/Papua_New_Guinea, 13.okt13

http://www.vaksinekart.org/land/papua%20ny-guinea.aspx, 1.mai.13

http://www.momondo.no/multicity/?Search=true&TripType=return&SegNo=2&SO0=OSL&SD0=POM&SDP0=27-11-2013&SO1=POM&SD1=OSL&SDP1=02-12-2013&AD=1&TK=ECO&DO=false&NA=false#Search=true&TripType=return&SegNo=2&SO0=OSL&SD0=POM&SDP0=27-11-2013&SO1=POM&SD1=OSL&SDP1=02-12-2013&AD=1&TK=ECO&DO=false&NA=false, 10.nov.13