Another story, not quite about Africa, but also about distant places.
If someone from the regulars remembers the photo where I stand with three black boys, over which one common friend was delighted, this photo was made in Papua New Guinea, while walking along one of the islands. Because of the remoteness of civilization, nature there is completely virgin, the same not touched as the inhabitants themselves and the image of their lives.
Well, since there was at all nowhere to go, it was now in the sense that not one of the most visited seafarers, such as museums, exhibitions, and others :) There were no completely there, so we decided to just take a walk on the island. Namagged during the stay for a long time in the rail case, the body demanded to remove the tension.
During the walk of me and my comrade, I was interested in some kind of dark ball in a shrub, the size, probably with an inflatable plastic ball, which children play on the water, not far from the path for which we walked. We tried to approach the shrub and consider what it is. We certainly reviewed, and they realized that this is the beehive of the bees, the Toli is most likely aspen, because at this moment the local boys jumped out of the nearest thickets, waving their hands and something shouting on their adverbs. It did not come to us right away that it could be a hive of any dangerous bees, which were not very pretty, black and the size of a chief. Running, the boys grabbed us by arms and began to catch off from this hive. Of course, we also did not particularly resist and included increased transfers by carrying out legs from the place.
Then the photo session took place. Having got small souvenirs from us, the boys disappeared in the jungle, and then from the paths did not roll at all, while still under the impression of this event, which no longer let us go in some ways of hostility of the environment until we returned to our floating island of civilization .
Moreover, this case occurred immediately after another one who made us worry a little. At all at the beginning of the walk, we decided to sit near the steamer on the Palma Pedaned, and we did not have time to sit out of the bushes got a low growth of a person in a loined bandage. A man walked into our side smiling in full mouth. All would be nothing, but in the hands of that man there was an ax and a smile reminded the vampire smile just had a mess. The fact is that Papuats eat or or rather suck in the mouth of Toli, the flutter berries of Toli are some roots, which stain in the mouth in red, and give an apparently some light narcotic effect. And although we knew it, the spectacle of an imminent cheerful man made us a little on hiding. Although the aggression he did not show any, and the ax was peacefully dangling in his hand, saying hello to him and rejoicing a couple of greetings, we began to move towards a barrel barrel. Man so with us and walked for a while. The smile never went out of his face, but this is what he smiled, for us there is a mystery, he thought he was thinking about two white circular carcasters while dragged, it was the effect of that rubbish he chewed.
When the steamer has become quite close and the sounds of the auxiliary engines, and the sounds of freight operations, the man has fallen behind and went into the thickets.
Exhausing and relaxing, we went to walk on. And then on this episode left the next one with local bees and apparently these two adventures, it turned out too much for us and therefore the feeling of anxiety and neutility did not leave us until we returned to the ship.