traveller Into the wild
OUR COUNTRY
There are no roads, no cars, no TVs, no computers and no cellphones. Days are spent fishing from dugout canoes and harvesting sago.
I visit villages and spend time with the people who live there. Life is simple. There are no roads, no cars, no TVs, no computers and no cellphones. Days are spent fishing from dugout canoes and harvesting sago – a starchy extract found in the spongy centre of various tropical palm stems (the most common being the sago palm) and which, together with fish, makes up the staple diet for the villagers in these lowland regions. A fish closely related to the piranha inhabits the river here and is caught by hand from dugout canoes.
24 Paradise – Air Niugini’s in-flight magazine
Gently she flows ... the Karawari River at sunset (above); mother and children by the cookfire at Kundiman Village on the river (right).