Baliem Valley is one of most popular destinations in Papua and the most accessible area in the interior. Here is still independent on tools of stone, bone and wood but now are slowly changing in modern life .
Baliem Valley is about 60km long and 16km wide and bounded by high mountains on all sides with beautiful scenery and the majority of the indigenous still living close to nature, tending composed of circular thatched huts called honai/ Pilamo.
In the Baliem Valley the sweet potatoes is king. The Dani People 60 varieties, some of which can only be eaten by elders. Other plants such as sago palms, and also leave the plant cultivated. The locals eat the pith of the sago palm and also leave the plant to rot so they can collect and eat beetle grubs. On special accessories, pig is cooked in earth ovens.
Dani people living in own land and build houses with separate huts
Baliem Valley is about 60km long and 16km wide and bounded by high mountains on all sides with beautiful scenery and the majority of the indigenous still living close to nature, tending composed of circular thatched huts called honai/ Pilamo.
In the Baliem Valley the sweet potatoes is king. The Dani People 60 varieties, some of which can only be eaten by elders. Other plants such as sago palms, and also leave the plant cultivated. The locals eat the pith of the sago palm and also leave the plant to rot so they can collect and eat beetle grubs. On special accessories, pig is cooked in earth ovens.
Dani people living in own land and build houses with separate huts