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Popular Things To Do | Miscellaneous Things To Do Tips | All Tips (24) When we wanted to see a display of traditional native dancing, we would head for the hills surrounding Port Moresby. Part-way up the highway to the Sogeri Plateau, was the very nice Kokoda Trail Motel, complete with a restaurant/bar and swimming pool. The children had a good time there and Sue and I enjoyed the cooler airs of the high ground. It was also here that local dancers would put on a traditional Asaro Mud Men show. This custom arose from the Eastern Highlands area near Goroka, where it is said that the men of the Asaro tribe were defeated in a battle with a neighbouring village. In order to redeem their honour, in the customary New Guinea way of 'payback', the warriors covered themselves in mud and wore ominous face masks as they launched a counter-attack. Thinking that they were being attacked by the ghosts of their enemies, the warriors of the other village fled the scene! Leave a Comment
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Being from the Maritime Provinces of Canada, I have always liked looking around harbours. Port Moresby was no exception, so we paid a visit one day to view two unusual vessels anchored there. The 22,300-ton 'Fedor Shalyapin' was a Russian cruiseship touring the South Pacific, with its next scheduled stop in Sydney, Australia. She actually began life in 1955 when she made her maiden voyage from Scotland as the Cunard liner 'Ivernia'. When Cunard cut back on the cruise business, she was sold to the Russians in 1973. After a long and illustrious career, this old lady finally came to rest in Ukraine where she languished dock-side for a few years before being broken up for scrap in 2004. In the foreground of the photo is a famous Tall Ship, the 150-ton 'Eye of the Wind', with her bowsprit sticking out toward the right side. This topsail schooner was originally built in Germany in 1911 as the 'Friedrich' and she has been around the world a few times since then. The 'Eye of the Wind' has also featured in the movies 'Blue Lagoon', 'Savage Islands' and 'The Bounty'. Little did I know that I would run into her over 20 years later at the Halifax, Canada Year 2000 Tall Ships regatta! Completely refitted in 2001, this vessel can accommodate 30 passengers. Leave a Comment
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These Estuarine Crocodiles are now threatened world-wide, surviving in only a few places like PNG, Australia, India and Southeast Asia. They normally inhabit the coastal waters in river mouths and mangrove swamps but they can also survive further up rivers in fresh water. Males can grow to about 7-m (22-ft) in length but 4-m is a more common size. As they grow in size, their diet can change as well, from small fish and snakes to barramundi, sharks and even livestock and humans if the opportunity should arise! Once the keepers of the wildlife farm began tossing out the chickens for feasting, the crocs went wild trying to claim their piece of the action! Note the dry eucalyptus type forest in the background, typical of the Port Moresby area. Leave a Comment
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on June 12, 2005
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