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THE WILDEST EDGE Papua New Guinea "If you could only dive one destination for the rest of your life, this should be it. Papua New Guinea sits smack in the middle of the world's hottest spot for undersea biodiversity. There is a raw pageantry on the reefs here that simply doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. I've spent hours diving just one patch of a reef on one site in one small part of this island nation, and the divemaster had to tear me away to show me another site that I wanted to camp on. Both above and under the water, PNG exists in a primal state. Most villages on this island still exist in that strong interval between the Stone Age and the modern world. Underwater, even if you just explore under a pier, you're alomost guarantreed to encounter some strange and wonderful creature like a ghost pipefish, or rare shrimp. It's difficult to pick my favorite region, but I would be quite happy to explore Milne Bay or Kimbe or Kavieng for the next 20 years. Still, new regions are being explored every day. Big, small, rare, wrecked or unknown, you'll find it all here. And between dives, you'll get to discover one of the world's last remaining authentic places. People here headhunted until the 1960's. The jungles are full of incredible birds, such as several species of birds of paradise, and ritual dances are played out in costume as they have been for centuries." Ty Sawyer |
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