After these intense weeks in Solomon Islands, it is time to cross the real “Comanche territory”, Papua New Guinea, which people often confuse with Equatorial Guinea in Africa, which have nothing similar in location or culture. For the moment the last batch of photos and anecdotes in Solomon as a farewell …
As dishes were put their eyes when the family that lives in the village of Komolo knew of my computer, thus beginning a cycle of nocturnal cinema in my room for several days …
Unexpected meeting with a member of the J.F. Kennedy during an act commemorating the anniversary in which two natives rescued a young Kennedy from this same island lost after being attacked and sunk his ship by the Japanese in the battle of Guadalcanal. Crossing enemy Japanese lines the natives carried a coconut asking for ransom with a message written to knife by Kennedy warning that he and his crew were alive in a place that only the carriers of that coconut knew. Kennedy always said that these two Indians saved his life and changed the course of history… nice history.
More and more remains of the battle of Guadalcanal over and under the water, caves where the Japanese hid and some relic that the natives and I have trafficked here for my private museum