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Baining Fire Dance

Posted by Richard Sidey on April 10, 2017 in Expedition, Melanesia, Papua New Guinea, South Pacific | No Comments

The Baining Fire Dance A cultural spectacle in the Baining Mountains of East New Britain, Papua New Guinea. The origin of these firedance ceremonies was to celebrate the birth of new children; the commencement of harvests and also a way of remembering the dead. The Baining firedance is also a rite of passage for initiating […]

Crossing the Kuril Basin

Posted by Richard Sidey on June 24, 2015 in Dolphins, Expedition, Killer Whales, Russian Far-East, Wildlife | No Comments

Crossing the Kuril Basin A day at sea today on the MV Silver Discoverer with Nobel Caledonia, making our way eastwards from Korsakov, Russia across the Kuril Basin to Yankicha, a sunken volcanic caldera on the Pacific Ring of Fire, once visited by the indigenous Ainu people and home to their god of thunder. Mid-morning, while […]