Off To Papua New Guinea

It's six days until my departure for Papua New Guinea (PNG) and the excitement is starting to build. The itinerary for the first week is still not finalized. My host for the trip has assured me that everything will fall into place, asking for my patience he points out that PNG works on island time -- "It's like manana but without the sense of urgency". It appears I might be staying at either of two dive resorts, Loloata near Port Moresby and/or Walindi in New Britain. I plan on doing some scuba diving--PNG is well known for it's unspoiled reefs.

New Guinea is the 2nd largest island in the world with only Greenland being bigger. It is home to 8 million people living mostly in small tribal villages. Over 700 languages are spoken approximately 1/3 of the worlds total. Western civilization has only relatively recently begun to affect the lifestlyles of the indigenous peoples.

I am not looking forward to the journey from Chicago to PNG. It will take over 30 hours and 3 flights just to reach Cairns, well worth the trip, where I will overnight to catch the flight to Port Moresby the capitol city of PNG.

I hope you will be able to join me on this once-in-a-lifetime adventure over the next month. . .

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