A couple of years ago my family and I were on the first P&O cruise to Papua New Guinea 🇵🇬. We stopped in Alotau in Milne Bay to coincide with the Annual Kanu and Kundu Festival. ( Canoe and Drum festival) This event brings people from all around the Eastern Province of PNG. They travel for days or even weeks to get to the festival mostly by canoe as there are few roads and hundred of islands. Each village or island has their own dress style and dance which they perform in the square of the village that springs up in the Alotau foreshore parklands just for the week of the festival.
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There is so much ww2 history in the Milne Bay area with this location being the point where the imperial Japanese invasion of PNG was defeated but that story is for another post.
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That looks like an interesting event to see. I find it amazing how native people can travel these distances on open water in tiny boats. I go out in Port Philip Bay in my little canoe and scurry back to land as soon as the wind speed gets above 20kph! They're made of sterner stuff I think!
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Great shots. So much colour and life…!
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