Sentani
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 18.46 mi
- Elevation gain
- 423 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 413 ft
- Max elevation
- 586 ft
- TrailRank
- 24
- Min elevation
- -260 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 2 days 17 hours
- Coordinates
- 2471
- Uploaded
- October 7, 2017
- Recorded
- October 2017
near Sentani, Papua (Indonesia)
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The Korowai and Kombai Tribes
West Papua (southern New Guinea) - 2017/218
The Korowai and Kombai are neighboring tribes who have been enemies as long as they can remember. They inhabit a small area in the vast lowland-rain forests of southern Papua. They live in small family clans and are hunter-gatherers, dependent entirely on their forest, where they find everything they need for living.
Perhaps surprisingly, the tropical rain forests of New Guinea are poor in mammals or any other large animals. Apart from bats and tree kangaroos - the only really native mammals on this second-largest island in the world - there is also the Southern Cassowary, a large ostrich-like bird, and wild pigs which probably arrived in New Guinea only relatively recently from the ships visiting the coast. From there they spread into the interior where they became an important part of life and culture for the people throughout the island.
Domesticated pigs are kept by every clan, and the wild ones are hunted in the jungle. However, the success rate isn't very high and domestic pigs are so valuable that they are usually only killed and eaten at tribal ceremonies, or when other food is hard to get. This can happen when hunting is not possible due to the lasting torrential rains.
More info, click: https://trek-papua.com/korowai-batu-expedition/13-days-dani-korowai-trekking/
West Papua (southern New Guinea) - 2017/218
The Korowai and Kombai are neighboring tribes who have been enemies as long as they can remember. They inhabit a small area in the vast lowland-rain forests of southern Papua. They live in small family clans and are hunter-gatherers, dependent entirely on their forest, where they find everything they need for living.
Perhaps surprisingly, the tropical rain forests of New Guinea are poor in mammals or any other large animals. Apart from bats and tree kangaroos - the only really native mammals on this second-largest island in the world - there is also the Southern Cassowary, a large ostrich-like bird, and wild pigs which probably arrived in New Guinea only relatively recently from the ships visiting the coast. From there they spread into the interior where they became an important part of life and culture for the people throughout the island.
Domesticated pigs are kept by every clan, and the wild ones are hunted in the jungle. However, the success rate isn't very high and domestic pigs are so valuable that they are usually only killed and eaten at tribal ceremonies, or when other food is hard to get. This can happen when hunting is not possible due to the lasting torrential rains.
More info, click: https://trek-papua.com/korowai-batu-expedition/13-days-dani-korowai-trekking/
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