Thor's Papua New Guinea 10
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locals join visitors for a swim. Rather chilly water.. |
Kids from different worlds | Master of all he surveys.. | Jackson airport in Port Moresby, PNG's capital. It is a very basic affair.. | Port
Moresby is often rated the least desirable city to live in the Asia-Pacific.
Hopefully time will heal its social ills. |
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The world, alas, rarely gets happy stories from PNG. In the item linked here, the Minister for Tourism pulls his gun on an unfortunate academic. Ministerial posts are about backroom bargaining for spoils, not about competence. | Recent link to another hair raising story about surviving in lawless Port Moresby. This one features a naive pastor. Missionaries have had a major influence in the region, for better or for worse.. |
| The Papuan clans near Port Morseby have always lived by fishing | A tiny elite of new-rich nail their new apartments to a Port Moresby hillside | The central market in Port Moresby is still what this town is really all about |
Related links on this site: 1. Background information on Papua New Guinea
2, Map of Papua New Guinea ( CIA map courtesy of the University of Texas resource site)
3. Expedition to Snake River, PNG,1987
4. Friends - Irimo Street PNG 1985 (a prose poem)
5. Super-Culture and The Ghost in the Machine (..reflections on human innovation and insight)
6. This Is Your Problem Friend, Not Mine -- towards a cure for formal language errors in Papua New Guinea and elsewhere..