Down The Sepik
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He'll Take Them
In A Houseboat
A 200-MILE houseboat tour down the Sepik River is Papua-New Guinea’s latest tourist bait, The tour is the idea of a 24-year old Patrol Officer turned river trader, Wayne Heathcote.
He has converted a floating trade store, built on a double canoe, into a houseboat which will cover the 200 miles—from Ambunti to Angoram— in three days.
He held a trial run recently for representatives of tourist agencies.
The 200 miles trip includes some of the territory’s more primitive regions.
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There is a continuous Sepik trade in native artifacts, which find a ready sale overseas.
There are now artifact "factories" in the Sepik. The men in the picture, inspecting shields, are Graham Gilmore and Martin Kerr.— Photo by James Anderson.