🇵🇬 Mount Hagen Cultural Immersion - A Journey Through Time

✈️ Day 1: Arrival & First Encounters Morning: • Landing at Kagamuga Airport - Where modern jets meet grass-strip traditions ✈️ • Shine Inn Lodge check-in - Jungle-chic cabins with "is this WiFi or bird calls?" connectivity 📡 Afternoon Adventures: 🛒 Mt. Hagen Market: Rainbow produce: Purple sweet potatoes, giant peanuts, and coffee beans traded for shells 🥔 "That moment when a tribeswoman priced her bananas using knots on a vine" 🌄 Rondon Ridge Sunset: Cloud forests swirling like dry ice over valleys ☁️ "The Highlands' version of a James Cameron movie set" 🎬 🎭 Day 2: Living Museum Experience Tribal Welcome: • Chief's greeting in a 3-meter feathered headdress (weighed more than his grandchild!) • "Photo etiquette": Pay 5 kina per portrait - their version of Instagram likes 💰 #HighlandsMagic #PigsAndPixel #PNGculture