PAPUA NEW GUINEA | Tuesday, 8 January 2013 | Views [1576] | View Smaller Image
The Karunga Valley in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Each spur and valley separates one tribal territory from another. These families trade pigs for wives and only rarely brutally attack one another in order to settle scores, usually motivated by inter-village romances gone wrong. Otherwise, family life goes by slowly in this little slice of paradise where 85% of people live self-sufficiently off the land that they own as they have done for millennia.
