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NORFOLK ISLAND
CRUISING ESCAPES
AUTUMN HOLIDAY CHOICES Travel 1 March to 29 April 2006 2/12/95
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Great Value Rail Holidays On The Legendary Ghan • Qantas Sydney to Alice Springs & Adelaide to Sydney • 2 nights Novotel Outback Alice inc. full b/fast, X/nights $55 pp • Gold Kangaroo The Ghan Alice to Adelaide, inc meals & sleepers • 2 nights Mercure Grosvenor Adelaide, extra nights $64 pp • Optional 2 day Alice, Uluru & Kata Tjuta tour, from $515 pp
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• Qantas Sydney to Darwin & Alice Springs to Sydney • 2 nights Novotel Atrium Darwin, extra nights from $67 pp • Gold Kangaroo The Ghan Darwin to Alice, inc meals & sleepers • 2 nights Novotel Outback Alice inc. full b/fast, X/nights $55 pp • Optional 2 day Kakadu National Park Tour, from $385 pp • Optional 2 day Alice, Uluru & Kata Tjuta tour, from $515 pp
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• Qantas Sydney to Darwin & Adelaide to Sydney • 2 nights Novotel Atrium Darwin, extra nights from $67 pp • Gold Kangaroo The Ghan Darwin/Adelaide, inc meals & sleepers • 2 nights Mercure Grosvenor Adelaide, extra nights $64 pp • Optional 2 day Kakadu National Park Tour, from $385 pp
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Straight through to your closest Travellers Choice travel agent or visit www.aussieholidays.net.au Travel valid 1/4 to 30/6/06, last date of sale 25/6/06. Prices cash, per person twin share. Surcharge for credit cards. Flights based on Qantas “N” class. Airfares to be paid within 7 days of booking. Balance payable 30 days prior to travel or within 72 hours if travelling within 30 days. Pens/Sens must hold a Commonwealth Government Entitlement Card. Subject to availability and conditions apply. ABN 47 009 116 947 LIC 9TA00271
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national voyage — and what a premiere. I t u r n t o N aomi, a sprightly, well-travelled, 70-something lady with whom I’ve just shared a very civil lunch of lobster, prawns and asparagus. She’s stunned, watching with mouth agape and eyes like saucers. The drums — and the dancers — reach a fever pitch, then stop as if a mighty handbrake has just been applied. To the sound of a chap in a comical shirt-and-tie combo bellowing pidgin English into a bullhorn, the men momentarily lose their determined demeanour and
step back to reveal a dozen or so exquisitely adorned young women, each of whom bears a beautiful, hand-crafted laurel of frangipani — and not a great deal else. Amid a palpable, expectant silence, they approach in unison and delicately place the fragrant laurels around each of our necks. ‘‘The Trobrianders have made seduction an art form,’’ Nancy, our resident anthropologist, reminds us. ‘‘It’s all a part of the matrilineal (female-based) society of this region.’’ Dr Nancy Sullivan is also our interpreter. Without her, we’d be more than
floundering in this complex, multi-layered ‘‘kula’’ culture that trades in chattels, food and favours. Kula is a benign, yet highly involved, game of strategy and influence that has been the basis for interisland relations in the Milne Bay region over many centuries. ‘‘This gorgeous shell jewellery,’’ Nancy announces as she picks out a girl who is probably the equivalent of a princess, ‘‘is a very clear sign of her status in the community.’’ Nancy delicately cradles and admires the weighty assembly of mother-ofpearl, spondylus and crocus
FIJI GROUP DEPARTURE ON SALE! Where each landing is a discovery: The Oceanic Princess in Papua New Guinea, above; excited children on Kiriwina, in the Trobriands, left; the exciting dancers of Kiriwina, above right; and passengers go ashore, below right
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he men, oiled, lean and exuberant, gather ominously around us on the beach. All the while, a hypnotic drum beat urges them on, each licentious beat met with an overt, unambiguous thrust of the hips. This elaborate welcome could be mistaken for many things. We’re ashore on Kiriwina, the main island of the Trobriands, a tiny group east of the tip of Papua New Guinea and fabled as ‘‘the islands of love’’. Our ship, the 76-passenger, 2000-tonne Oceanic Princess, is on her maiden inter-
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