Today, we went to one of the biggest temples in Bali named Besakih. The religion in Bali is Hindu, but almost all the other islands in Indonesia are Muslim. One of the primary Gods in Hindu is Brahman,...
Bali, Indonesia Photo Blog
Bali is such a beautiful place with equally beautiful people. 90% of the Balinese people follow the Hindu religion and you can see so much of their beliefs in the genuine warmth they share in every interaction with their...
Bali Traditions and Balinese Cooking Class
Today, we learned a lot about Bali, especially about their primary religion. It is Hindu, but Balinese Hindu, not India Hindu. We learned all about the Hindu Balinese calendar. The Balinese Hindu calendar is different from our calendar, because...
Papua New Guinea Photos
WOW! PNG was intense. Such a primitive place, seems almost to be suspended in time. It was such foreign surroundings for us, but looked to be the same for the people of PNG to see us and find us...
Indonesia
Indonesia (and Bali) History Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia is a sovereign state in Southeast Asia. Indonesia is an archipelago comprising thousands of islands. With an estimated total population of over 252 million people, Indonesia is the world’s fourth-most-populous country....
Piloting a Plane in Papua New Guinea – Pilot Brayden (Bravo Sierra)
Today, we left the Karawari Lodge for Rondon Ridge in Mount Hagen. We started the day off by packing up our bags and walking down to the main building to get breakfast. After we ate, we all piled into...
First Day in Tari
Today, we landed in the city of Tari in the Huli region. When we got off the plane, there were many locals staring at us because our skin was white, we were different and we learned that the locals...
What a birthday…out in the middle of nowhere in Papua New Guinea!
Never could I have imagined a birthday quite like this one. We are at the Karawari Lodge in Karawari, Papua New Guinea. We are quite literally in the middle of nowhere. We are so far off the grid, that...
Pigs, Women and Land (Adult Only Post)
Pigs, Women and Land – the war mongering and corruption that has created ‘modern’ Papua New Guinea – and some crazy PNG tales accumulated from the back-country. (This is really only meant for adults, since it has a little...
Papua New Guinea
History Papua New Guinea is located on the eastern half of the Island of New Guinea. New Guinea is the second largest island because Greenland is the biggest. Papua New Guinea was discovered in the 16th century by Portuguese and Spanish...