Papua island

Papua Island was Previously known as Irian Jaya ,has riches concentration of plant life all over Indonesia including hundreds of species of medicinal importance and over 120 endemic genera. More than 2,500 species of orchids are found here. The island is also harbors some very strange plants ,such as fungi Mycena, whose gills glow in the darkest nights for unknown reasons or a giant epiphytic Myrmecodia Brassi, whose bulbous base is honey combed with passageways hosting swarm of ants ,frogs and lizard.

Located in the most eastern part Of Indonesia, Papua is the country most spectacular region for tourism where whole great swaths of earth can still be accurately as totally wild.

In central mountain lies grand valley inhabited by Neolithic warrior and farmer ,The Dani people, Papua Indigenous people. The Dani have most captured the Western imagination,ever since explorer Richard Archbolds first glimpse of the breath takingly beautiful Baliem Valley.

This area supports around 70.000 Dani, a stone age people who have come to be known for their farming skills and fierce and glorious warfare.

Dani believe that once men and birds lived together in harmony, not realizing they were different. Therefore each clan has developed an affinity with a particular species of birds.

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