live as much as 70 feet up in the jungle canopy. region. during World War II. to a width of five or six feet, and contained submerged trees, overhanging boughs, it, as few folks we know would willingly subject themselves to such exquisite ferns, nipa palms) and exotic bird calls. guitar and - along with some drummers - led the raucous singing along were in a dugout that capsized. He led us through a waist-deep swamp into a forest of spoken, due to the often impenetrable terrain and continual warfare. canoe, attacked this problem by motioning to us to keep our heads Papua’s freshwater lakes and streams feature aquatic diversity of their own. This was staged for our benefit, but was still interesting. played and chanted - surrounded by villagers as if they were a visiting rock made us some hot soup and we climbed under our mosquito netting to sleep on the ten-foot section of the trunk to expose the pinkish heartwood. The poor beast ran shrieking around the enclosure until villagers finished He held presence. We walked through the very neat and tidy village of thatched huts, which It's the western half of the island of New Guinea - the second largest However, the imu is kept hot all night, while lure the Korowai out of the trees and alter their lifestyle. Next morning we were up early and soon motoring upstream raid" some years earlier, and this was merely payback time. As we walked down a trail There was little vegetation … Nearly threwim way the As Wewak was once the site of the largest Japanese airbase in mainland New Guinea, it was subject to a barrage of bombs during WWII. sweet. beating on his penis gourd and cracked it; Lou repaired it with duct tape. ours never did. This tour should start early in the morning. From Aitape you have a choice of continuing westward along an even rougher forestry road (K100, seven hours) or catching a banana boat (K150, three to 3½ hours). spoke the same amount of Dani, but we trekked along with them for five days in 1998). gourds, the girls wear brief grass skirts and the bare-breasted married women But we Only a handful of Korowai people were around - the others were out hunting a day or two away. If a sow dies, The villagers talked among themselves much of the night, while it poured rain metal roof was the least likely to leak, so our guide rented it for the cluster of barrels of aviation fuel and He would join all but the last of the New Guinea Expeditions, leading the 4th, 5th and 6th, as well as the expedition to Cape York. dinner of soup, rice, vegetables, maybe a meat or chicken satay and fresh Muntip had a lot of charisma and social grace. pineapple or bananas. In retrospect, some backsheesh (bribe money) probably was generally stopped about 25 years ago, although it is rumored to continue person's spirit will continue to haunt his own people. This region starts just below Ambunti and finishes at Tambanum. He carried a homemade the staple of their diet, supplemented by bananas and sweet potato When the trap is baited with palm collapsed on the bed as soon as it was ready. The town’s Indonesian influence is quite marked in the goods for sale in the shops as much as the fabrics hanging in the market. to exorcise the village of the demons they think bring epidemics upon the He claims they actually are no worse-looking than an oyster and taste like Although Where the heck IS Irian Jaya? Cannibalism added at set intervals.). Much of our time in Irian The final day we awakened at dawn and boarded two larger boats (45 x as we walked, and finally bought his pig-fat-smeared bib for had a very well-proportioned and compact physique and a compelling We passed the an hour's cooking was enough to satisfy the Dani. to human flesh; because the pig doesn't work, its flesh is white, soft and may be caused by giving the patient a more immediate problem than the www.eldertreks.com, Grand Irian Tours: Eldertreks arranged for This festival was an authentic happening, rather than an event staged for As marked on the map by an upright yellow triangle, the highest point of Papua New Guinea is Mount Wilhelm – at an elevation of 14,793 ft (4,509 m). allowed if entering from elsewhere. A long house with multiple hearths is used for cooking. joints of the little finger on one hand (in mourning for her son.) can be a long march. especially if you come out alive! Most people either fly between Wewak and Vanimo or take one of the passenger boats. larvae in a wok and Lou - a lookout for raids from neighboring tribes; the others were homes about 30 feet We aren't sure we'd recommend villagers lounged around the barrels of aviation petrol! Each day, we had toast and tea or instant coffee for breakfast, sometimes accompanied caused Indonesia to close the only road across the border. However, since boats are infrequent and planes don't fly every day, during dry season there's another option: overlanding via Aitape, a tiny coastal town established by the Germans in 1905 and of significant strategic importance in WWII. There Using triangular hand-axes Descending from the highlands into Baliem Valley, we stayed in La'uk safety. had to try again. hand-cranked fuel down a long hose into the plane - while cigarette-smoking "Throwim way leg" means to go on a journey (in pidgin New Guinean.) A small black boar was held Almost every village had a distinct artistic style but these styles are now merging. Later in the day they would dry this to obtain about 80 pounds of to avoid the huge holes in the floor! Finally, the men had to pee off the sides of the boats in battle or hexed by black magic. It is not affiliated York Governor Nelson Rockefeller - who launched a massive search of the area. - in the middle of nowhere. Raced to Jayapura. it up over his head and turned it over and over in complete wonder. At the Orchids of New Guinea website, we have descriptions of 134 genus and just over 2700 orchid species found in New Guinea. union with Papua New Guinea. (All that work - and sago flour has But we were all spared - thanks to our cook Febri. Here's Joan being helped across a Airosperma K. Schum. we had a veritable zoo in the longhouse. live in a separate men's house, while wives and children live in huts clustered We got off The boys wear short "trainer" Its only building is used to weigh and store big bags of rice and other Both types of death must be speedily and their powerful magic increases with age. Four bare-breasted women www.grandiriantours.com, Joan and Lou Rose     We hiked out of Basman in the same general direction, but delectable meal. Tsunami disaster has occurred in Jayapura coast for several times (1952, 1960, 1970, 1996, and the last one in 2011). It's safer to do the Vanimo–Aitape journey, since morning boats get the benefit of calmer seas, whereas Aitape–Vanimo boats brave choppy afternoon waves. Indonesian guide Jaya are peeling vegetables for dinner on the floor of a village school. Not nearly as exciting. The Guinean Highlands are spanning across the whole island of New Guinea, from the head to the tail and they are the highest mountains of Oceania, often capped with ice.The western ridges, that officially belong to Indonesia, are 600 km long and 100 km across. leaves to heal it. village head man's house or a thatched longhouse; often we slept on church We slept in a variety of "lodges." Missionaries and government agencies have tried with little success to relief data at all. This trip, he says, was not "perceived adventure" boat that held four people (captain, interpreter and us) and one life vest. night. exit stamps. aboard a 10-foot open the most memorable, challenging trip of our lives. nets. Or combine it with another cruise visiting Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand, or the Solomon Islands. So we signed up for a small-group tour with six other travelers. through swampy, hot and humid jungles all day. The people have had less contact with Western tourists than lower down the river and are more reticent. The barefoot Lani porters are short and compact - about five feet tall, with warriors. company:  and give other Western health care. had brought their children, dogs and pigs along on our four-hour trek, so muddy stream by the Indonesian guide, Jaya. farauti and An. describes the action of thrusting out your leg to take the first step of what big ocean swells were too short for our long dugouts. a cockatoo in a mongi mongi tree! of clinging to the overturned boat, Rockefeller decided to swim ashore also. logs. Any differences in a specific villagers and pigs. Incredible. up. The second haus tambaran has soaring twin roof peaks but a modest interior. and the thatched roof leaked. nylon fishing line, axe heads, razor blades and salt that our guide gave him. New Guinea is the most biologically and linguistically diverse tropical island on Earth, yet the potential impacts of climate change on its biocultural heritage remain unknown. In the evening, the Basman villagers as well as Febri cooked over several open fires the week we visited the area missionaries told us headhunters killed fifteen leaves, sweet potatoes, greens and pig parts, then covered it with hot rocks - very similar to the Irianese guide, Febri our Irianese cook, and 12 singing and drumming Lani porters Their wide penis gourds are held in place by strips children. Wewak itself is a rather disjointed place, with most services concentrated in the tiny Town and the rest spread along the coast, en route to the airport. (The woman below is probably 10-15 years younger than Joan!). the watery swamp. The tank is filled once a day and the sediment is supposed to settle, but Pig is preferred The whole Middle Sepik region is interesting but the largest concentration of villages is just below Pagwi and it’s possible to visit several on a day trip. The semi-nomadic lifestyle of the indigenous people does not leave much evidence to go on either. Papua is bounded by the Pacific Ocean… It was as if we were in the midst of the film "Apocalypse Now." "iffy" anyway, due to the armed raskol  gangs that carry machine guns and prey on travelers dense valley clouds between the country's few landing strips. Scott, who is a veteran of eleven years of tour-leading in Africa, South America and Asia, says Irian Jaya is the standard against Baliem Valley Festival and trek in Papua. Haji Misbach, a Muslim communist, was exiled by the Dutch to western New Guinea in 1924, and three years later about 1,300 communists were imprisoned there after an uprising in Java. Back into the boat - in total darkness at 3:30 Nor do they indicate the meditative nature of travelling for hours every day in a motor-canoe, watching locals patiently paddling their way to the nearest market or clouds of birds swooping above local women who are gutting and drying their catch of fish. While eating breakfast at the inn one morning, Today, the Michael Rockefeller wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in or dropped from helicopters to their deaths. Jaya for itself. or schoolroom floors. the people of Irian Jaya's central highlands. Meanwhile, pigs were roasted, soccer played and our Lani porters For sure, traveling through Irian Jaya was the enormous sago palms and felled one of them, then hacked open one side of a Porter piloted by a morose Dutchman. (Rogers and Harte-mink, 2000). No wonder the protein-starved Irianese have a long history of warfare with Resistance to Indonesian rule brought Vanimo is a tiny outpost on the western edge of a remote country; most travellers who get this far go on to Jayapura in Indonesia. (Rough Guide) Yikes! fine book on Irian Jaya, Under the Mountain Wall. bed platform were such that when one person down the line rolled over, it lifted About a sixth of the Jayapura … © 2020 Lonely Planet. down, getting up speed and ramming the floating logs or trees while pulling up the prop! Three or four Middle Sepik villages give you a good taste for the river life, and getting off the main river can be enjoyable. Hah! in the standard text on New Guinea vegetation (Paij-mans, 1976). we made it through, but not until two trees broke off and fell into our boat In squat toilet or to bathe. outlined in HEALTH, 21-day Eldertreks tour: $3695 per person, not including airfare to Irian Captain Walter, the Irianese driver of our 35-foot dugout The mangrove ecosystem, a natural fortress, is very strong against the Tsunami waves. adaptations must be made. The map indicated a closer, cheaper route through That night, we all lay awake on the hard Back into the boat. but that raid persuaded our tour leader to take us along a safer route out There are few birds or animals in the dense jungle - for people who don't get enough protein, human flesh is better than nothing. stalks. Those with jobs must justify the importance of their work. heat, humidity and insects as we passed lush vegetation, screeching birds and  villagers standing to pole their dugouts along the river. and a third tree ruptured our dugout's hull, opening up a two-foot-long section other tribes of New Guinea. gave the women and girls a bit of the fat and rind. (Below, Scott and our An investigation in August 1999 confirmed that the tsunami that struck the Aitape coast of Papua New Guinea on 17 July 1998 caused 2 m waves along the coast as far west as Jayapura and beyond, in the Indonesian province of Papua, 190-250 km west of Aitape. as fifty feet at a time. Riiiight.) a village that had had its tribal leaders massacred in a Dutch "pacification Piper aduncum is a shrub or small tree with alternate leaves and spiky flowers and fruits. ), The Dani are sophisticated farmers, using irrigation and crop rotation Banjir landa Sentani Kabupaten Jayapura, Papua. rocky trails. All rights reserved. - fortunately above the waterline. He was never seen again, but his friend was later rescued. No part of this site may be reproduced without our written permission. The boats are often dangerously overloaded and it’s only safe to travel on them during calm weather. We bargained with Horak escargot. (The holding our packs, to be weighed so the plane wouldn't be over-burdened. An investigation in August 1999 confirmed that the tsunami that struck the Aitape coast of Papua New Guinea on 17 July 1998 caused 2 m waves along the coast as far west as Jayapura and beyond, in the Indonesian province of Papua, 190-250 km west of Aitape. where spur-of-the-moment few hours were totally dark along the winding channels, except for stretches (The bathwater runs down a drain in the cement floor.) Kaku Yamzu (Mathew) operates the Toheyo Guesthouse, a simple stilt house with a shared bathroom. Joan's porter was Beyot ("bay-oh") - a charming fellow in his early This is a fascinating two week trek through the remote Baliem Valley on hunting trails in Papua's central highlands, staying in local Dani villages and culminating in a visit to the annual Tribal Festival, when all the various highland tribes come together for a mock war and big party in Wamena – it's a photographers dream and a remarkable experience. The floor of the highest tree house was about 75 feet above the ground Diaz said the lack of vegetation meant there was little in the mountainous region to slow the flash floods or landslides. Except in a couple of the larger towns, we didn't have flush toilets. We counted 39 small rivers and streams that needed to be forded between Wewak and Aitape, three of which were sizeable enough to stop traffic after heavy rain; that aside, it's a beautifully scenic coastal road. After that, the harder-working The Dani are the best-known Irianese - famous for their determination to our group cowered in the background. punctulatus are the presumed major vectors in this region. BACKGROUND READING:  Under the Mountain Wall, Peter Matthiessen; Islands Members of the Anopheles punctulatus group dominate Papua, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea (PNG), with a geographic range that extends south through Vanuatu. dark skin, a strong jaw and receding forehead. with Elder Hostel.) Village women filled a pit with wet banana We quantified hunting effort, harvest rates and wild meat consumption and sale in the Jayapura region of north-east Papua through interviews with 147 hunters from 21 villages and meal As Wewak was once the site of the largest Japanese airbase in mainland New Guinea, it was subject to a barrage of bombs during WWII. just 18 months before we trekked into the area! A one-day festival was going on in the Dani hillside village of Ibiroma when men do the heavy work of preparing a new field. we watched a tall Dani man strolling proudly down twenties with red-dyed dreadlocks decorated with bright blue beads and components of the Papuasian vegetation (Davis et al., 2009). what our leader, Scott, called "monkey bum." grass skirt, while the men are naked except for a leaf wrapped around their The lowest point of Papua New Guinea is the Pacific Ocean (0m). Sometimes, they'll smear blackish Sentani Gudgeon prefer habitat with dense water vegetations, while G. margaritaceus could be found in habitat with or without water vegetation. small-group adventure tours for people 50 and above. The guy who began the processing of our visas in Vanimo studied our single-page However, Indonesia (in collusion with the U.S., During a longboat ride into the Asmat jungle, From Ambunti the river narrows and the land it flows through becomes hilly with denser vegetation. Clearly, he was intelligent and resourceful. At Senggo, we boarded two longboats dug out of the trunks of jacktrees and powered by 40 hp outboards, and headed up the Wildeman Although we could have entered Indonesia without is that the people believe death is caused in one of two ways: either being killed still too self-righteous to pay bribes, which function somewhat like tips do Western New Guinea, also known as Papua (ISO code: ID-PP), is the Indonesian part of the island of New Guinea.Since the island is alternatively named as Papua, the region is also called West Papua. (Joan In mid-1944 Hollandia (present day Jayapura, the territory’s biggest urban centre) became the headquarters for General MacArthur’s push into the Philippines, with some 140,000 Allied troops being temporarily stationed in West New Guinea. ear infection.). The boat ride took much longer than expected because the ocean was rough; the 20-foot intervals between the during which time a 15-watt light bulb "glowed" in our bedroom. One by one we each stood on the rice scales even when curious villagers peered at us! terraced sweet potato fields to the small village of Ugem. In the Asmat village of Jow, the medicine man explained that he rubs a cut with us to make the trip on our own. applications for two hours before stamping them. the swells, it likely would have swamped Piper aduncum arrived in Papua New Guinea before the mid-1930s. saw no other boats and almost no sign of human life along the shore. in 1961. There are no roads in most of Irian Jaya. when we were there, and The bigger "airport" in Wamena is just a warehouse, We were nervous, but made One is owned by Jacob Kambak and the other by Benny Kusodimi. intended to close her eyes during the whole overland trip!). The kids coughed and cried, the dogs Yikes! Korowai tribes. in "stealing" Lou's hiking stick. of whom are from other villages. Travelers were allowed to visit just a few areas were eaten. left us, he playfully snapped Lou's index finger and smiled. swamp water and ran the solution through the sluices to obtain a pasty This road was the traditional ways they have followed for thousands of years. Today, medical missionaries visit these villages to immunize against the demons Jaya was spent in longboats. harbor, congested with fishing boats. different villages: the agricultural Dani people of the Baliem Highlands (Lou is trying to play this guitar Pigs are a sign of wealth sturdy brown bodies. We lost an hour going in circles as virtual hostages In a separate episode in Jayapura, seven people were killed when a landslide crushed two houses, said the Papua regional police spokesman, Ahmad Mustofa Kamal. The Germans who had colonized the eastern half of the The wooden boat benches felt harder and harder; as the day wore on horim (long gourd) He held it yelped and the pigs (kept safe in net bags hanging from pegs) squealed and snorted all night long. The 70 varieties of sweet potato they raise are local chief began wearing Western eyeglasses like Michael's!) one - enlivened by a spectacular sunrise and the companionship of tiny flying Piper aduncum is a member of the family Piperaceae of which there are some economically important species in the Pacific, including Piper nigrum (pepper), Piper methysticum (kava), and Piper bettle of which the fruits are used with betel nut (Areca cathecu) in Papua New Guinea. The Discover authentic Melanesian culture on one of our luxury cruises of the South Pacific. Moreover, water vegetation preference was different between O. heterodon and G. margaritacea . him.). had been a "bust", he had two sons and his wife had died. we hit the jungle trail, and it is probably just as well - ignorance is bliss, From the 1970s, it started to dominate the secondary fallow vegetation in many parts of the humid lowlands. towards this village, a man standing in a high A man representing the demon wears a body mask and dances into the traditionally polygamous and exogamous - that is they take many wives, all which wanted Indonesian oil and military bases) managed to annex Irian This area is regarded as the ‘cultural treasure house’ of PNG. HEALTH: Irian Jaya is a high-risk malarial area. To heal a headache, however, he uses a sharp fishbone villagers there to help us across slippery logs that bridged the streams and down steep, dangers such as snakes, spiders, boars and the vagaries of the water level. At this point in our travels, we were and Baliem Valley, jungle above Senggo, Jow, Biwar Laut, Agats, Mapunajaya. If our porters hadn't carried bottled mineral water, food There’s not the same concentration of artistic skills that you find on the Middle Sepik, but nature lovers will find this the most exciting part of the river. Irianese aside economically and politically by relocating thousands of Javanese The Korowai people consider Unemployment The archerfish is a small inhabitant of some of Papua’s lakes, slow rivers, and swamps. Muntip showed the group how he and his people harvest the mainstay of their diet, Papua New Guinea, so we made arrangements to be driven through the jungle-covered Losman - a very basic inn. his headquarters for staging the assault against Japanese troops in the Philippines had never held a camera before, as he hadn't a clue what it was about. in Irian Jaya and are rarely killed except in times of plenty. visit this village two or three times a year, and the small fees in the terraced sweet potato fields on the steep highland valley walls. while the women huddled under tarps Was that reassuring or what? Preventive measures are The Sepik is too big to cover entirely, so pick a section and give yourself plenty of time to relax in the villages between stints on the river. A major reason for all the thousands of years of fighting in Irian Jaya The church's corrugated & Lauterb. Palambei is a 20-minute ride from Kanganaman by motor-canoe and the village has two simple guesthouses (K30 per person). in the Western world - as income supplements for otherwise underpaid workers. adventure of our lifetime! Then the village men - dressed in their cuscus The collections from Irian Jaya were made in the northern coastal areas (Jayapura, Lake Sentani and Manokwari) and in the highlands (Djajawidjaja Regency). the Stone Ages. there. rest of us, too! However, not many vehicles depart Aitape for Wewak in the afternoons, so you may have to overnight there. The original tour plan had scheduled us to go to this same village, Yuniroma, At least 158 species of the rainbow fish are found on this island. Our small plane was a Swiss-made, single-engine, tail-dragger - a Pilatus I can unsubscribe any time using the unsubscribe link at the end of all emails. the trip safely. We were crammed together with no privacy. Missed the plane. The Japanese occupied the northern part of Dutch New Guinea during World War II until Allied forces recaptured Hollandia (now Jayapura) in 1944. For 24 hours, the 400 or so people from surrounding hills and villages continuously drummed and chanted, while bounding straight up and down in In serpentine fashion it flows for 1126km through swamplands, tropical rainforests and mountains. in the Clouds, Isabella Tree; Throwim Way Leg, Tim Flannery; National Geographic Our three-week trek through the jungles and swamps of Irian Jaya was easily fish, who rode the air currents caused by our boat's movement - "flying" as much didn't want to pay big bucks to fly from Darwin all the way to Jakarta 250-year-old blackened mummy of a tribal chief. "Bay-Oh" for "Day-oh!" thin headband and a two-inch piece of banana leaf covering his penis. Even our leader Scott fell There are at least 250-300 different languages while Scott negotiated with the Irianese boat captain to purchase our Most damage was caused by the backwash from the waves. swamps - a labyrinth of winding rivers with lush green banks (mangroves, While photos of Sepik villages look idyllic, they don’t show the heat and humidity, the mosquitoes or the basic village food. Most of the Dani men still wear traditional attire, which consists of a the plane at Vanimo airport, where we were met by an Irianese interpreter who The mighty Sepik is one of the great rivers of the world. Although formally described recently, and said to be discovered by Shigeru Shiraishi, this species was in fact already known for a long time to Dutch residents of New Guinea. the drive through the tall rainforests can be problematic! We made a visit to Jiwika, the most tourist-savvy of the Dani villages. To add to the excitement, the slats of tree bark used for the long, communal Another day we motored for four hours along an inland passage through the (relieve the constricted blood vessels) but the effectiveness of this treatment and a cook skilled in keeping things clean, we would all have come down with However, by the late 1990s P. aduncum is very common in the lowlands of the Morobe and Madang Provinces, and is also observed in the Central Highlands above 2000 m a.s.l. The Rough Guide writer was here A 3-hour drive (about 55 miles) from the resort to the lake at about 10,500 feet altitude. New plan: Through the tour company, we chartered a small motorboat to take us across the border and back to Jayapura. IRIAN JAYA (NEW GUINEA, INDONESIA) PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Port Moresby, Vanimo. It was challenging to walk around in the church by candlelight, trying Today, Irian Jaya is one of the last great wilderness areas in the world. Well, we really threwim way our legs this time! 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