Naresh: Papua New Guinea Picture Stories

Posted 10:40 AM, August 11, 2006, by nareshr

Some pictures from the PNG trip in July

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My favorite picture from the trip. These boys on the beach in Wewak simply lit up once they saw themselves in a digital camera - quite possibly for the first time

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The airstrip in Ambunti, the only "town" in the middle sepik river valley. We halted at Ambunti while arranging a canoe and logistics for the upriver trip to the villages. The medic training was held in Ambunti for a week.

Signs of civilization after a six hour canoe ride. Villages were few and far between. One day we rode about four hours up the april river to get to a village and only barely got back around dark.. scary

The river was stunningly beautiful... much more rainforest and wilderness than the Amazon.

A typical welcome arch at a village designed for us. These were often accompanied by welcome songs, welcome dances and welcome speeches. Except when they weren't. There was also an odd correlation between villages that gave us welcomes and villages where we left tired from seeing every sick person around ;-)

Helena and a medic (Mary) helping a kid. A medical student, a local medic/interpreter and an premed would team up to help patients out, one-by-one, all with Kelly Murphy's guidance and supervision of course

A traditional welcome. These men in Siot village were hiding behind a large tarp and broke out in song and dance in their grass skirts much to our wonder and delight. We were truly touched.

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