Photo Gallery: Randam exotic photos of Papua New Guinea Highlands

The third city in Papua New Guinea, Mount Hagen City!

Photos Credit: Howarig Traders/2015.

Photo Gallery: Random photos from Anji Village - Enga Province

A typical highlands house. Max Mal's home at Anji village - Enga Province

Part of Max Mal's orchid garden at Anji village - Enga Province.

A man trying to catch bees.

Photographs courtesy of Max Mal from Anji village, Enga Province.

Photo Gallery: Random photos from the Highlands of Papua New Guinea

Young highlands girls in traditional attire.

Tourists at Bird of Paradise hotel in Goroka, Papua New Guinea.

Photos: Usano creek at Kutubu - Southern Highlands

Usano creek at Kutubu - Southern Highlands Province.

Photo: Papua New Guinea higlands costumes are rare and colourful

Eye feasting PNG Highlands Costumes are very distinct and unique. They are preserve and displayed at cultural festivals annually. 

Paradise Orchids: From Max Mal's orchid garden

Orchids from Max Mal's Paradise Orchid Garden at Anji Village, Enga Province.

PHOTO GALLARY: Flowers and Orchids

Orchids from Max Mal's Orchid Garden at Anji village, Enga Province.

RANDOM PHOTOS: Tourists at Bird of Paradise Hotel and Highlands young girls in traditional costumes

Young Highlands girls in their traditional costumes!

Tourists at Bird of Paradise Hotel in Goroka, Eastern Highlands Province.

PHOTO GALLERY: Gaim Engwal's Kuru-ware cultural dance at Algena village, Western Highlands Province

Gaim Engwal's Kuru-ware cultural dance at Algena village, Lower Kaguel, Tambul-Nebilyer District, Western Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. Photos courtesy of Jacinta Tai - Western Highlands Division of Commerce, Tourism and Culture.

Passing on from generation to generation, the legendary Kuru-ware cultural dance was performed only by Gaim Engwal Tribe in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The selection of head dress and all others were as interpreted through a dream by their ancestor Gaim Gale some hundred years ago.

PHOTO GALLERY: Gaim Engwal's Kuru ware ritual ceremony at Alkena Village, Western Highlands Province

Preparing a Highlands "mumu". Its not just a ordinary "mumu" preparation and pig slaughtering, rather a demonstration of how ritual ceremony for Gaim Engawal's dying culture of Kuru ware was done when Gaim Gale told his dream. Photographs courtesy of Jacinta Tai - Western Highlands Division of Commerce, Culture and Tourism.  

Covering the "mumu"

Elders from Gaim Engawal telling legendary stories of how kina shell were valued and used in their youth which is now being replaced by money, making kina shell a valueless.

They lived and seen the Kuru ware dance and can tell how it was so unique from the rest.

The Engwal Tribe of the Western Highlands Province is believe to have originate Gaim Gale, thus the name Gaim Engwal. The legend starts when Gale once went hunting in the big rain-forest, it was a long walk and he had to take a nap near a big tree when he had a dream. "A Tree Kangeroo appeared in the dream and chant a verse titled Kuru-ware and described the traditional attire to wear. He wake up to find nothing and headed home, only to find that he had to share the chant amongst his brothers and so how the Kuru-ware cultural appear to be now."