Day 63: Big setback as only ferry serving Wewak has broken engine. The pastor looking after me recommends an alternative route through the Sepik river.
He leaves it late, but in the end he manages to find a place on the last truck of the day travelling to Angoram on the Sepik river. They leave me the privilege of travelling on the front of the truck where I have a comfy seat rather than the wooden benches all the other passengers use on the back. the scenery is very diverse from the ones I used to in Bougainville. there's no rainforest here, but rather grassland and bushes. it strikes me that even this very old, noisy and rusty truck is a luxury in comparison with the many who cannot afford it and walk over the main (and only) road. actually, we are lucky there's a road at all. This will stop at the Sepik river, as there's no bridge crossing over it.
I get to Angoram after an 8-hour drive. I have no idea where to stay and find a place to sleep in the local church (along with rats & insects).
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#refusetofly #travel #slowtravel #decarbonise #climateemergency #globalwarming #climateBreakdown #collapse #TippingPoint #papuaisland #PNG #Wewak #Sepik #WestSepik #researcher #researcherlife #AFuoco
I slow travel mainly to reduce my carbon footprint (by 10 times according to available estimates) but also to experience travel as most people in this world do.
Natalie Whiting, Alex Barry and Theckla Gunga: How the ‘second Amazon’ became a battleground: Tensions are growing along a pristine river system on Australia’s doorstep
#rainforests #papuanewguinea #sepik #logging
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-03-09/how-the-second-amazone-became-battleground-sepik-png/102062130
How the ‘second Amazon’ became a battleground | ABC NEWS AU
Tensions are growing along a pristine river system on Australia’s doorstep.
The #Sepik is sometimes called the “second #Amazon”. Flowing from the highland jungles of western Papua New Guinea to the sea, it’s the life blood of one of the world’s most pristine freshwater basins, home to a teeming array of wildlife not found anywhere else on the planet.
Hundreds of students in a remote Papua New Guinean school have been stuck repeating the same grade for eight years because teachers are not showing up to work.
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