Papuans Experience

Brief information: Crossing the river you don’t need to bring you your heavy back pack. You just bring some entrance fee, one copy of travel permit/surat jalan, your camera, sun block, hats, and don’t forget to wear your shoes because some places are slippery and muddy. One guide, one porter to bring lunch box (s) if you are in group. What you are going see? This full day tour featuring Wosilimo to see most exciting and two kilometers cave which is called Gua Kontilola. The deeper the most darker, but no worries, there are lighters along the path. While walking, you will Kontilola cave-wosilimosee so many cave bats are hanging on the wall after you passed one kilo meter. Here is one of the exiting places to see and the other some local huts out of it. It continues to Kurulu district to see the 250 years old Mummy. After take some photos, you’ll cross 250 meters, to see the chief called nopase Yali with his compound. He’s one of chief who has 11 wives. The more information; you w...

The Lani are – like their neighbors, the Dani - experienced farmers and are using a highly sophisticated irrigation system to produce mainly Sweet Potatoes, Tobacco, Beans, Taro, Spinach, Sugar Cane and Bananas. Their villages in a beautiful surrounding southeast of Wamena are larger than the small compounds of the Dani and the Yali. The Lani men, who are more stubby than the Dani, wear thick kotekas (penis gourds), which also serve as a “handbag”, a case for tobacco and valuables. Men sometimes wear hairnets, but the Lani extensively use bird feathers as decoration. Quite often a feather crown is worn even when the men are dressed in western clothes.The women wear short grass skirts, but like everywhere in the valley tend to wear western clothes more and more today. Like their Dani and Yali neighbors, the women carry everything – like vegetables, small pigs and even their small children – in net-bags across their backs. Lanis inhabit a smaller part of the Baliem valley, but this is...

The Dani people live in the middle of the large mysterious Baliem Valley. The Dani tribe called themselves as Ahamua people. Long time ago until today, the Dani people bartering business among them or with other tribes in the highland areas. Now Pig barter is still found among them and they still keep their traditions upright until today. For instance you can still find the huts shape, penis gourds for that wearing by the men and Sali/Yokal for women. Additionally, the Dani tribe still keeps the folklore, folk songs, and Stone Axes, traditional balsam or Cassowary bones as a gun that was used to kill their enemies before. Stone knives are still used in the most remote areas of the Baliem Valley even thought it’s kept in the huts. If you want to know more about the Dani, visit us on the cultural festival in Dani Baliem Valley at 10-17th of August or September every year. Here are the Dani people activities: For more, visit us! https://trek-papua.com/

There are a lot of folklore in Yali region. One of them is “Mbuge Mbage”. Once there was an old man lived in a hole of a tree. The tree grew near the field belonged to a woman. When she was working in her sweet potatoes garden at her field then suddenly her baby felt and one moment cried out loud. She looked at her baby’s finger that was broken. She felt afraid and leaved the field. The coming days her baby felt over and over again. Then she tried to fine the cause happening to her baby. The man mean to catch the old men. One day the baby parents leaved the huts and left her baby in the hanging nets Dani people called Noken/Su/Sum. They hided in the jungle and look for the baby. Suddenly the old came out from the hole of the wood. It was the time the baby father catched the baby. He tried to catch him, but he couldn’t catch him. The old man was Mbumba. He ran and walked fast climbed the high mountain. It was hard for the baby’s father to catch him. The place he passed by the people ...

The Dani Tribe, Papua The Neolithic warriors and farmers, the Dani tribe, live in the high central range of Papua Island. Until the last decades of the 20 th century the Dani tribes were some of the most isolated people of the world. They grew root crops, raised pig and used polished stone axes like their ancestors did since some 50000 years. They didn’t make pottery or use metal, so their technology was very much like that of the Neolithic of the Old and New Worlds. Some 250,000 Dani are living in the central mountains, many in small villages among the steep mountain slopes. Dani build round or oval huts, made out of straw and wood, which have thick thatched roofs to protect from rain. In the huts open fire places are used for cooking, keeping the huts warm and to get rid of the mosquitoes. Their villages are surrounded by fences or stone walls. They are farmers, and their small fields are distinctly bordered. The Dani men and women sleep separately in different huts (called...

The Dani people live in the middle of the large mysterious Baliem Valley. The Dani tribe called themselves as Ahamua people. Long time ago until today, the Dani people bartering business among them or with other tribes in the highland areas. Now Pig barter is still found among them and they still keep their traditions upright until today. For instance you can still find the huts shape, penis gourds for that wearing by the men and Sali/Yokal for women. Additionally, the Dani tribe still keeps the folklore, folk songs, and Stone Axes, traditional balsam or Cassowary bones as a gun that was used to kill their enemies before. Stone knives are still used in the most remote areas of the Baliem Valley even thought it’s kept in the huts. If you want to know more about the Dani, visit us on the cultural festival in Dani Baliem Valley at 10-17th of August or September every year. Here are the Dani people activities:  For more, visit us! https://trek-papua.com/

There are a lot of folklore in Yali region. One of them is “Mbuge Mbage”. Once there was an old man lived in a hole of a tree. The tree grew near the field belonged to a woman. When she was working in her sweet potatoes garden at her field then suddenly her baby felt and one moment cried out loud. She looked at her baby’s finger that was broken. She felt afraid and leaved the field. The coming days her baby felt over and over again. Then she tried to fine the cause happening to her baby. The man mean to catch the old men. One day the baby parents leaved the huts and left her baby in the hanging nets Dani people called Noken/Su/Sum. They hided in the jungle and look for the baby. Suddenly the old came out from the hole of the wood. It was the time the baby father catches the baby. He tried to catch him, but he couldn’t catch him. The old man was Mbumba. He ran and walked fast climbed the high mountain. It was hard for the baby’s father to catch him. The place he passed by the people no...