You know you're in Papua New Guinea when...
You know you're in PNG when: (photo below)
1. A kid uses a cow about to be butchered as a recliner
2. The road is so bumpy that your soda goes flat before you finish drinking it
3. At a quick glance, you're not sure if the dark spots on the floor are knots in the wood or cockroaches
4. Cockroaches don't gross you out anymore
5. Houses with thatch roofs and bamboo walls have padlocks on the front doors
6. Pigs wander around the yard like dogs
7. Airport security pulls butcher knives out of a woman's carry-on bag
8. Toyota Landcruisers actually cruise land... not pavement
9. The fruit bats are so big you can hear them coming
10. Class is regularly interrupted by 4 inch long flying bugs or swarms of bees
1. A kid uses a cow about to be butchered as a recliner
2. The road is so bumpy that your soda goes flat before you finish drinking it
3. At a quick glance, you're not sure if the dark spots on the floor are knots in the wood or cockroaches
4. Cockroaches don't gross you out anymore
5. Houses with thatch roofs and bamboo walls have padlocks on the front doors
6. Pigs wander around the yard like dogs
7. Airport security pulls butcher knives out of a woman's carry-on bag
8. Toyota Landcruisers actually cruise land... not pavement
9. The fruit bats are so big you can hear them coming
10. Class is regularly interrupted by 4 inch long flying bugs or swarms of bees
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Permalink Reply by heather mallett on -
haha yeah! nice to see good engineering not wasted!
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Permalink Reply by Rodney Yates on -
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Permalink Reply by Rodney Yates on
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Heather, did you bump into any of these characters? Whatever else you say about PNG, the people such as these live far more sustainably than anything the Western countries come up with, regarding attunement with their surroundings and eco-systems, means of sustenance, and giving back to nature what is taken from nature!
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Permalink Reply by heather mallett on
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Hi Rodney thanks for your comment!
I didnt run into anyone like this my last trip but i have in the past!
I find their lifestyle very fascinating and after spending time with them i realize how much i DONT know about life! I love the simplicity of it and how they are so in tune iwth their surroundings etc.
On the other side of the coin, they generally have very poor health and many are malnurished. their attunement with nature is more like survival to them!
for example, in the country i grew up with they didnt name their babies until they were 1 year old because most of them didnt survive. These people in the picture above probably have large stomachs not because they have plenty to eat but because they have parasitic worms!
I understand and appreciate the both the positive and negative aspects of tribal and western lifestyles! -
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Permalink Reply by Mike Ratrie on -
Funny, but true. The PNG pictures on your page are really nice. Sorry, but now comes the stupid questions. Are you there now, or did you just return?
Fair winds,
Mike -
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Permalink Reply by heather mallett on
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hey mike! not a stupid question!
im based out of Florida where our U.S. headquarters are. my health isnt good enough to live overseas full time so i go for a month or 2 at a time. i'm back in FL! -
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