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[EviLore]

The latest trend among travel Youtubers looks like it's solo travel to Papua New Guinea. Here, this guy goes to Port Moresby and mingles with the locals, then heads into the jungle.

PNG has its...concerns, in terms of security, health, and infrastructure. But it is also a viewport into a vastly different world, which makes it pretty interesting!

 

[Sakura]

Doesn't Papua New Guinea still have a bunch of undocumented animals and shit? Pretty crazy place.

 

[EviLore]

Doesn't Papua New Guinea still have a bunch of undocumented animals and shit? Pretty crazy place.

Yeah, not exactly fully linked up with the modern world! There is some tourism though, would be interesting to visit the interior tribes, but there are far less dangerous ways of going about that.

 

[AJUMP23]

Where is old Guinea?

 

[EverydayBeast]

The city life has disillusioned a lot of people, we still have a bunch of unsafe, dangerous areas in the world.

 

[PuppetMaster]

Where is old Guinea?

Etymology​

Papua is derived from a local term of uncertain origin.[26] "New Guinea" (Nueva Guinea) was the name coined by the Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez. In 1545, he noted the resemblance of the people to those he had earlier seen along the Guinea coast of Africa. Guinea, in its turn, is etymologically derived from the Portuguese word Guiné. The name is one of several toponyms sharing similar etymologies, ultimately meaning "land of the blacks" or similar meanings, in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants.

 

[EviLore]

Video #2, 3:09

I guess you can take your axe on the plane as long as you put it in a separate bin at security

 

[AJUMP23]

Etymology​

Papua is derived from a local term of uncertain origin.[26] "New Guinea" (Nueva Guinea) was the name coined by the Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez. In 1545, he noted the resemblance of the people to those he had earlier seen along the Guinea coast of Africa. Guinea, in its turn, is etymologically derived from the Portuguese word Guiné. The name is one of several toponyms sharing similar etymologies, ultimately meaning "land of the blacks" or similar meanings, in reference to the dark skin of the inhabitants.

New uncertain origin land of blacks.

 

[winjer]

I don't know much about Papua New Guinea.
But this topic reminded me one of my favorite musics from the 90s techno scene.

 

[near]

I always get Guinea, Guinea Bissau, and Papua New Guinea confused.

Doesn't Papua New Guinea still have a bunch of undocumented animals and shit? Pretty crazy place.

It's actually wild to think that this could be dinner:

 

[Chittagong]

Papua is a bizarre South Korea / North Korea like land mass.

East Papua is PNG. I had a friend working there in charge of a big logistics company. A couple of years scared her shitless and she returned to Singapore. Back then I thought she was working for Procter & Gamble when she said “png”

West Papua, on the other hand, is Indonesia. Much more affluent and excellent for scuba travel. Raja Ampat is one of the top scuba destinations on the planet. It’s crazy to think that not too far away, you have PNG.

 

[Chittagong]

Video #2, 3:09

I guess you can take your axe on the plane as long as you put it in a separate bin at security

Here in French Polynesia we don’t do security checks for flights. You can fly with a bag full of weapons from Moorea to Bora Bora, no problem. Weirdly nothing bad has ever happened.

 

[EviLore]

Papua is a bizarre South Korea / North Korea like land mass.

East Papua is PNG. I had a friend working there in charge of a big logistics company. A couple of years scared her shitless and she returned to Singapore. Back then I thought she was working for Procter & Gamble when she said “png”

West Papua, on the other hand, is Indonesia. Much more affluent and excellent for scuba travel. Raja Ampat is one of the top scuba destinations on the planet. It’s crazy to think that not too far away, you have PNG.

Yeah, the Indonesian side of the island is apparently much safer and better developed, though it looks like there's an insurgency going on along the border.

How are you liking French Polynesia? You built a home there, right?

 

[Chittagong]

Yeah, the Indonesian side of the island is apparently much safer and better developed, though it looks like there's an insurgency going on along the border.

How are you liking French Polynesia? You built a home there, right?

French Polynesia is amazing. You have direct flights to Auckland, LA, SF, Seattle, Fiji and Tokyo. Fiber optic internet. Carrefour, Apple Store, Sony store, Nespresso store, french wine and cheese.

It’s generally very safe (petty theft aside), and locals are welcoming. Air is clean, and you can eat local produce - like sashimi grade tuna caught the same day for $10/kg.

Housing is really expensive, as are imports. Life is an outdoors lifestyle - scuba, cayaks, surfing, hiking, bbq.

It’s our third year here. House is going up, but a bit late because our roof was sent to Auckland by accident. Same general direction I guess.

 

[EviLore]

French Polynesia is amazing. You have direct flights to Auckland, LA, SF, Seattle, Fiji and Tokyo. Fiber optic internet. Carrefour, Apple Store, Sony store, Nespresso store, french wine and cheese.

It’s generally very safe (petty theft aside), and locals are welcoming. Air is clean, and you can eat local produce - like sashimi grade tuna caught the same day for $10/kg.

Housing is really expensive, as are imports. Life is an outdoors lifestyle - scuba, cayaks, surfing, hiking, bbq.

It’s our third year here. House is going up, but a bit late because our roof was sent to Auckland by accident. Same general direction I guess.

Sounds great. A bit out of the way but those are enough direct flights to not feel too isolated.

 

[Chittagong]

Sounds great. A bit out of the way but those are enough direct flights to not feel too isolated.

Yeah that was my worry the first year. We actually left for Europe for Xmas then because I was worried of cabin fever.

Worry was unfounded thankfully, there is so much to do in Polynesia and the internal flights are so good that you always have something. Like now for Xmas, we were in less than two hours from our Moorea home in a hotel in Bora Bora.

The one downside here is that postal and courier system is non existent. There are no street addresses. You have to pick up your UPS/DHL at Faa’a near the airport, if you can bother.

Hence as we are heading to Australia for NYE, our friends flat looks like an Amazon depot at this point.

 

[RJMacready73]

I like my holidays a bit more cold beers and luxury linen than roasting over a firepit with an arrow stuck in my arse... But I love watching these mad bastards head off to these semi wild places, still waiting on the YouTuber who manages to set foot on North Sentinel Island and make it back alive

 

[Dr.D00p]

There's also North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean with a small indigenous population where no outsider is allowed to go, and people who've tried have been killed.

North Sentinel Island - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

 

[TVexperto]

isnt that the youtuber who pays prostitutes to travel with him from poor countries?

 

[EviLore]

isnt that the youtuber who pays prostitutes to travel with him from poor countries?

Dunno! Not endorsing him or claiming he’s virtuous, just that the vids in the OP are an interesting adventure.

 

[LimanimaPT]

Tourism will ruin it...

 

[belmarduk]

Where is old Guinea?

In Northwestern Africa.

 

[Laieon]

There's also North Sentinel Island in the Indian Ocean with a small indigenous population where no outsider is allowed to go, and people who've tried have been killed.

North Sentinel Island - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

You have a choice to be dropped off there or at Ilha da Queimada. What do you choose?