The Sepik
This small island has delightful picture-perfect beaches under coconut trees, a couple of decent waves if you bring your own surfboard and paddle out to…
The Sepik
This small island has delightful picture-perfect beaches under coconut trees, a couple of decent waves if you bring your own surfboard and paddle out to…
The Sepik
There are numerous villages around Maprik, many with a striking, forward-leaning haus tambaran, an architectural style echoed in such modern buildings as…
The Sepik
Korogo has an impressive haus tambaran with a pair of carved eagles at each end of the roof, related to a local myth, as well as colourfully painted…
The Sepik
Palm trees, turquoise waters, nearby reefs and a left-hand point break (November to March) make Muschu one of Papua New Guinea’s best-kept secrets. Hidden…
The Sepik
Near the main wharf lie the rusting remains of MV Busama. Further down at Kreer, on the road to the airport, there’s the wooden hulk of a Taiwanese…
The Sepik
Fourteen kilometres west of Wewak, this is the site of a wartime airstrip and the war memorial marks the spot where Japanese Lieutenant General Adachi…
The Sepik
This peace park marks the mass grave of many troops. The soldiers’ bodies were later exhumed and returned to Japan. Here you'll find a memorial and a fish…
The Sepik
The main, two-storey haus tambaran features three garamut drums with pig, crocodile and hornbill carvings. Upstairs is a treasure trove of shell-inlaid…
The Sepik
A small, temporary haus tambaran has been built near the ruins of the old one, with hearths inside clay dishes and six garamut drums with catfish,…
The Sepik
This small haus tambaran is smoky, covered with long sago leaves and home to a splendid cassowary costume used in ceremonial dances. A female figure with…
The Sepik
Kanganaman is famous for the oldest haus tambaran on the Sepik. Declared a building of national cultural importance, it has been renovated with help from…
The Sepik
Timbunke's cobwebby haus tambaran is a one-storey structure towards the west end of the village. A Lonely Planet author was the first non-local (and first…
The Sepik
With the help of French anthropologist Nicolas Garnier and international funding, there is a haus tambaran in Wombun, topped with herons, with beautifully…
The Sepik
The haus tambaran in the central village features a couple of large ceremonial masks, hook cult figures and garamut drums. Its centrepiece is a crocodile…
The Sepik
The soaring haus tambaran here was copied from photographs taken at the turn of the century by German explorers of the building standing at that time, but…
The Sepik
The remains of a third haus tambaran sit between the other two. It was bombed by the Japanese (or Americans, depending on who you ask) in WWII and all…
The Sepik
Right near Bowies Art Store in the first village, this small haus tambaran is the cleanest in the area (no cobweb curtains here) and has Albert the wild…
The Sepik
There is a modest haus tambaran with masks, a large garamut drum, and a spirit chair reminiscent of Frosty the Snowman.
The Sepik
This haus tambaran in Tambanum is fairly simple and one-storey, topped with soaring water birds.
The Sepik
It's well worth peeking inside the local church, decorated with carvings from different clans.