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For Dani people pigs feasts are important to celebrate events with the community. Watching a pig feast with hot limestones and cooking in an earth pit is a fascinating and once in a lifetime experience.

Tribes living in Baliem Valley have made peace with one another. Still, to maintain strength to defend their territories and to entertain tourists, they hold mock battles to display their skills. Nowadays, Dani mock battles can be watched at the annual Baliem Valley Festival. https://factsanddetails.com/indonesia/Places/sub6_10j/entry-6836.html

On the way from Wesagalep to Wamarek you must cross the scary suspension bridge over Sungai Baliem. Several wire ropes are stretched across the river. Two locally made wooden structures on either bank serve as suspension and attachment. Boards are attached to the wire ropes as floor planks.

People of Wesagalap belong to the Dani tribe group who live in thatched-roof homes. The Village lies at an altitude of about 1,950 m on the slopes of Sungai Baliem River in the central highlands of Papua Province. The village has a big meadow besides the school which serves as an excellent campsite for trekking groups.

People of Syokosimo Village belong to the Dani tribe group. The Village lies at an altitude of about 1,600 m just above the riverbed of Sungai Mugi. A little upstream from the village you can cross the Sungai Mugi on a bamboo bridge. The river is a tributary of Sungai Baliem River in the central highlands of Papua Province.

Sungai Mugi is a tributary of Sungai Baliem in the central highlands of Papua Province. Several villages are located in the valley such as Hitugi and Syokosimo.

People of Hitugi Village belong to the Dani tribe group, who have traditionally lived in circular thatched-roof huts and subsist primarily on sweet potatoes that are grown on sloping terrace fields and on raising pigs. Forest areas have been cleared in the lower and middle slope areas, besides agricultural fields, grasslands, and shrubs/bushes are the dominant vegetation. Today, Dani people mostly cultivate bananas, taro, yams, ginger, tobacco, and cucumbers. Pigs are the most important livestock species in Papua from economic as well as cultural perspectives. Most of the pigs are raised by smallholder farmers. The Village lies at an altitude of about 2,000 m on the middle slope of Sungai Mugi Valley. The river is a tributary of Sungai Baliem River in the central highlands of Papua Province. There are pleasant views to the Sungai Mugi and Sungai Baliem Valleys.

The Baliem Valley lies in central highlands of the Indonesian Province of Papua, the western part of the island New Guinea. The valley has a size of approximately 1,600 sq.km at an altitude of about 1,650 m. Wamena is the main town at the Sungai Baliem. Up to now the valley is only accessible through air travel, the road network to the valley has not been completed, yet. The Baliem Valley is inhabited by the Dani, a tribe group of about 100,000 former Stone-Age cannibals and headhunters that have adopted some modern ways and become Christians but still practice clan warfare and worship animist spirits and live in their traditional kampungs, or compounds. https://factsanddetails.com/indonesia/Places/sub6_10j/entry-6836.html The population has experienced dramatic social changes since the arrival of Europeans in 1938.

Sungai Baliem is a river in the central highlands of Papua Province with a length of 414 km. The river has its source at Danau (Lake) Habbema at an altitude of about 3,300 m. The river flows quite some distance towards the west and north before it turns east and enters the Baliem Valley. Southeast of the valley the river flows through a deep gorge. In the southern lowlands it joins the Pulau River, a major river in the south of Papua Province.