Our Papuan Home

This is on the main street of Sentani. Notice the guy selling newspapers by the road, and the enormous pile of rubbish awaiting collection. Rubbish is either dumped roadside, burnt or thrown into the river headed for Lake Sentani. We're exploring ways to reduce and recycle our waste!

This is our street, to the left. There is no street signage, so we say after the second big mosque on your left, past the police station, turn left just before the bridge.

While we were in Malang, the government paid for our road to be sealed, which is great for bike riding, and makes walking through the neighbourhood more pleasant.

The road winds its way past several houses, a pentecostal church, lots of coconut trees, gardens, banana trees..

..and a pinang and ice-block stand. Pinang is a narcotic which is chewed and then spat out, very popular with Papuans of all ages. In PNG it's called betel nut.

The river just behind our house.

There are tropical fruits everywhere. This one is called chocolate fruit; the seeds are dried and used to make cocoa.

We have pineapples growing in our garden.
The kids don't seem to care that the yard is dirt.

Soren is really into card games at the moment.