Ed Casabar @edcasabar@qoto.org
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My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
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#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 2 of 6
#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
My Goroka Sing Sing Series
Photo 1 of 6
#Goroka, Eastern Highlands
#PapuaNewGuinea (PNG)
#travel #photography
#indigenous people
See Photo 1 of 6 for a description of the Sing Sing.
Every year, about 100 of PNG’s tribes gather to compete in dancing, singing, and drumming. I photographed this event a few years ago, and it remains one of the most mind-blowing displays of humanity I’ve ever seen and in the top three of the most remote places I've traveled. Each tribe dances into the festival grounds wearing an incredible variety of costumes made from feathers, fur, shells, their faces often painted in elaborate make up. Each tribe having its own amazing costume
Although the festival has become well-known, I would guess that less than100 tourists were present to witness this incredible event. It’s hard to describe the intensity of the singing and visual impact it has when you first see each tribe enter.
Prior to the start of the festival, I was in a handful of tourists that was taken to view the make-up and costume preparation of the Hagan Tribe, which had some of the most elaborate feathers and even bird wings in their head dresses (see photos 2, 3)
If you have questions about how to visit Goroka, let me know. It's a difficult place to get to, but a once-in-a-lifetime experience.
The #Japanese custom of having special birthday celebrations for kids at the ages of 7-5-3 (shichi-go-san, #七五三) is based on East Asian numerology. The numbers are considered lucky. Kids are dressed in elaborate kimonos and brought to shrines for special blessings.
I took these two photos at Nikko, #Japan ’s famous Toshogu Shrine, a #UNESCO world heritage site.
Two, 3-year old girls and their families happened to be there while I was walking around as a tourist. I particularly like the one in which the little girl’s father has to carry her down a set of stairs as we left the temple, because her father thought she might fall while wearing her tall, red, wooden clogs.
I took this photo at the start of the #GoldenEagle #Festival, October 8, 2019. Those fortunate enough, like me, to make it to this remote location were greeted by about a dozen mounted #Kazakh #eagle #hunters, who slowly rode their horses through the crowd, an eagle on their arm. I’ve been all over the world, but this festival ranks in my top three most amazing experiences.
Taken at the base of the Altai Mountains, outside of Bayan-Ulgii, #Mongolia, and ~100 mi/160 km from the nearly intersecting borders of Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and China.
Once I recovered from the brief shock of this Kazakh eagle hunter deciding to plant himself next to me as I photographed the other eagle hunters, he let me take a few photos and this video. Yes, I got a selfie.
This was taken during the #GoldenEagleFestival at the base of the Altai Mountains, just outside Bayan-Ulgii, #Mongolia, about 100 miles/160 km from the nearly intersecting borders of #Mongolia, Kazakhstan, Russia, and China. October 8, 2019
I spent an afternoon at an eagle hunter ger camp. The lead/elder hunter told me that they capture their eagles in the surrounding mountains, care, feed and train them to hunt small game. Each eagle is released back to the wild after five years of captivity.
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